--- title: Five Best: Your Taxes Aren’t That High description: Your taxes aren't that high, you might go home with a prescription for home surveillance after surgery and more. canonical: https://time.com/4736038/your-taxes-arent-that-high/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-12T16:00:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:56.160Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Your Taxes Aren’t That High og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4736038/your-taxes-arent-that-high/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Your Taxes Aren’t That High twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Your Taxes Aren’t That High by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 12, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 12, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Sorry America, your taxes aren’t that high.**](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-11/sorry-america-your-taxes-aren-t-high) By Ben Steverman in _Bloomberg_ **2\.** [**After surgery, you might go home with a prescription for home surveillance.**](https://motherboard.vice.com/en%5Fus/article/hospitals-are-prescribing-home-surveillance-to-save-lives-now) By Aaron Frank in _Motherboard_ **3\.** [**Coming soon: Re-imagined soup kitchens feeding the hungry, fighting food waste and building community.**](https://www.citylab.com/navigator/2017/04/these-sleek-soup-kitchens-are-feeding-bellies-and-fighting-loneliness/522660/) By Jessica Leigh Hester in _CityLab_ **4\.** [**The link between mental and physical illness is real.**](http://www.ozy.com/acumen/the-link-between-mental-illness-and-physical-illness/76671?utm%5Fsource=dd&%3Butm%5Fmedium=email&%3Butm%5Fcampaign=04112017&%3Bvariable=727d16370ba65362059f0246ef4a6fa8) By Melissa Pandika in _Ozy_ **5\.** [**Having one black teacher might keep black students from dropping out. Here’s why.**](https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/04/10/why-having-one-black-teacher-could-help-keep-black-students-in-school/) By Anya Kamenetz in _KQED’s MindShift_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4736038/your-taxes-arent-that-high/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4736038/your-taxes-arent-that-high/"},"headline":"Your Taxes Aren’t That High","datePublished":"2017-04-12T16:00:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:56.160Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4736038/your-taxes-arent-that-high/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Education","Taxes","Mental Illness"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4736038/your-taxes-arent-that-high/","name":"Your Taxes Aren’t That High"}}]}] ```