Honesty: (article from the net)

We certainly hear a lot about thieving CEOs and corrupt politicians but sometimes the public has dirty hands as well. Consider what happened one spring evening at midnight in 1987: seven million American children suddenly disappeared. The worst kidnapping wave in history? Hardly.

It was the night of April 15, and the Internal Revenue Service had just changed a rule. Instead of merely listing each dependent child, tax filers were now required to provide a Social Security number for each child. Suddenly, seven million children-children who had existed only as phantom exemptions on the previous year's 1040 forms-vanished, representing about one in ten of all dependent children in the United States. As the inimitable Will Rogers put it, "The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than the game of golf has."