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Stereotyping
Romney: Banking, finance, investment. Ron Paul: Military, military-industrial, tech. Not a surprise that PwC employees heart Romney, because he tends to throw a lot of business their way. Last line...
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Just Another Day
Not so long ago, many conservative theoreticians, including the organization which assembled this graph and the underlying report, would have called this a feature, not a bug. And some of their...
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Illinois Giveth, and Illinois Taketh Away
Just as the Land of Lenin proposes to make “border region” gas prices on the level with the cheaper state on the other side of the border, they want ammo to go in the other direction. Therefore,...
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When Is Not a Tax Not a Tax?
Kinda sorta good news from SCOTUS on the health care hearings: They turned away the Obamaite procedural trick to get SCOTUS to delay these hearings until 2015. The trick was that the Obama crowd...
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Uneasy Lies the Head
Smart Money: The U.S. tax code is insane and out of control. It’s tripled in a decade. It now runs to 3.8 million words. To put that in context, William Shakespeare only needed 900,000 words to say...
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You Can Call It “Sublime” If You Want
I’ll call it “less ridiculous.” New Zealand must not have any real problems, if debating whether a pack of cigarettes should cost NZ$30-40 or $100, in contrast to the $16-17 they cost now, as the best...
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Berkshire’s Buckets
Two and two-thirds gigabucks of operating profits in 1Q2012. Dear Warren: Take one of them and pay off those back taxes you owe Uncle Sam, so we can stop hearing about your godforsaken secretary. You...
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First Order of Funding: Spelling Lessons
5: Missour (sic) Board of Education backs raising tobacco tax JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The State Board of Education is backing a potential November ballot initiative asking Missouri voters to raise...
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Out With A Bang
Washington, D.C. We will finally hear from SCOTUS tomorrow on ObamaCare. They have to decide tomorrow, for it’s the last day of the term. If the individual mandate is declared unconstitutional and it...
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Don’t Apologize
Augusta, Maine Reuters: Maine Governor LePage apologizes for “Gestapo” comment Maine Governor Paul LePage apologized on Monday for calling the U.S. Internal Revenue Service the “Gestapo” during...
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What Explanation?
Las Vegas HuffPo: Harry Reid: Bain Investor Told Me That Mitt Romney ‘Didn’t Pay Any Taxes For 10 Years’ WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has what he says is an informed...
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Common Sense
Boston Of course Romney has had some positive net tax liability every year of the past ten. Use your common sense: If there was even one year in the past ten where a man of his income would have had...
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Crackpot City
Charlotte It’s as if someone found the craziest 24,000 people in America and sent them to Charlotte to be Democrat delegates I guess these people don’t know that corporate profits are taxed to become...
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Black and Red Marks
USA Interesting. Except the people who make those states rank so highly aren’t Republican voters. Which in turn is a reason why those states are red. Confoosled? I’m not.
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Fair Share
Virginia The King of the Klingons might have been saying this just to say it, so I don’t know any specifics of his plan, if he even has a plan. But it’s a good idea. Federal income tax data...
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Flat Earth Society
Chicago It’s as if they think the world ends at the boundaries of Cook County, and that if you try to leave, you’ll fall off the Earth.
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The Clinton Years
Hempstead, New York If just taking us black to the Clinton-era marginal income tax rates will lead to Clinton-era prosperity, then why won’t rolling back Federal spending levels to Clinton-era budget...
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Hot Around the Collars
Chicago Toni Prickwinkle drops the bullet tax, but wants a twenty-five clam per unit tax on firearms sales. Suggestion for those of you who live in a Chicago-area collar county: Either start a gun...
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Paul Krugman’s Cream Stuffing
NYT Reality check, Paul: While there was a 91% top marginal personal income tax rate between WWII and the JFK Presidency, virtually no dollars were ever exposed to that tax rate, because the income...
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