Tax Day Is Deadly
Is tax day literally killing us? A new paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that traffic fatalities rise an average of 6 percent on tax day, compared to similar days. That makes it about as deadly as Super Bowl Sunday, another day of abnormal road carnage.
Full post by Brad Plumer at Ezra Klein’s blog is interesting.
More people are out late on tax deadline day than similar weekdays. The Super Bowl is always on a Sunday, when one would expect more holiday/drinking related accidents than a workweek day. Maybe it has to do with the number of people who are depressed — by their tax situation or their team’s loss.
Wow. This says more about how much people procrastinate than anything else though. There has to be some sort of deadline, though most can agree that we are taxed too much for unnecessary issues.
Maybe it’s a day when people are (appropriately) feeling rage.