Tag: government
member name: Duane B.
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February 16, 2007 11:11 AM EST --
Would you like to pay more or less Federal Income taxes? It sounds like a silly question, but flat tax proposals would shift a sizable tax burden from the top 10% of personal taxpayers to the remaining . . .
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March 17, 2008 11:57 AM EDT --
We all know that we are in the middle of a sub prime home mortgage crisis that has developed into a general credit crisis that has generated the loss of trillions of dollars in the stock markets . . .
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February 22, 2008 09:57 AM EST --
I always experience a twinge of annoyance and irritation whenever I hear someone in government refer to Social Security and Medicare as an "entitlement" when they are trying . . .
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January 06, 2008 10:20 AM EST --
Politics has often be referred to as "the art of the possible", but paralleling the growth of extreme and hard line religious factions in many mainstream religions of the . . .
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January 25, 2008 10:20 AM EST --
It looks like the $ 150 billion economic stimulus plan agreed to by the White House and Congress will put a maximum of $1,800 into the hands of a married couple with two . . .
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March 13, 2008 07:35 PM EDT --
Are the Democratic candidates going to immolate themselves, and the party, in their desire of being numero uno or will they curb their enthusiasm for the top slot on the November . . .
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April 22, 2007 11:01 AM EDT --
I was watching a call-in program on C-SPAN last Saturday morning when something happened that always annoys and disappoints me. The caller was a self-proclaimed conservative Republican . . .
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February 29, 2008 09:09 AM EST --
I Gather (pun intended) the 143 responses to my first article on Social Security entitlements indicate a fairly strong interest on this subject. A listing of the specific suggestions . . .
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April 13, 2008 02:38 PM EDT --
I have just finished managing a volunteer tax preparation service in conjunction with the IRS. The program is called VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) and is designed to assist . . .
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July 26, 2006 09:45 AM EDT --
The State of Georgia has come up with the perfect solution to the problem of supervising its estimated 10,000 convicted sex offenders: export them to other states. A new Georgia state . . .
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November 26, 2007 09:39 AM EST --
Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has send a 42 item questionnaire to six leading televangelists inquiring into how their ministries spend the multi-millions of dollars that . . .
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October 30, 2006 01:59 PM EST --
I have posted below a link to a Newsweek article dealing with the new efforts of cities to deal with the homeless/panhandling problems by forbidding churches and other non-profits from . . .
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March 06, 2007 08:49 AM EST --
The latest example of Washington’s smoke and mirrors on attempting to find a solution to our healthcare crisis is a proposal of SC Senator Jim DeMint to let individuals and families to establish . . .
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December 08, 2007 01:12 PM EST --
William Saletan, writing in Slate, criticizes a study that appeared in Nature Neuroscience that concludes that “conservatives” are less intelligent, . . .
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March 23, 2008 02:48 PM EDT --
A recent survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public life shows that almost 40% of Americans have changed their religion since their childhood, with a growing number dropping any religious . . .
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October 30, 2006 12:58 PM EST --
The recent decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court stating that homosexual couples are entitled to the same rights as heterosexual couples and giving the New Jersey Legislature six months . . .
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March 03, 2008 11:40 AM EST --
This morning, March 3, 2008, Warren Buffet, one of the wealthiest persons in the world, is the guest of CNBC. The Oracle of Omaha is discussing a wide variety of subjects, including the . . .
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March 17, 2008 01:45 PM EDT --
The jobs report at the end of February indicated a net loss of jobs for the US economy, but one area of employment growth, government, had an increase of 22,000 jobs. The New York Times . . .
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March 15, 2006 09:09 AM EST --
China is refusing to take back approximately 39,000 of its citizens who have been arrested for being illegal immigrants according to a CNN story. Of the 39,000, 687 are being held in Federal custody . . .
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April 06, 2008 02:28 PM EDT --
Democratic Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska has made an interesting, and I think important, proposal: all future funding for Iraqi reconstruction will be made in the form of a . . .
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