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		<title>The Whole Picture on Tax Rates</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/01/the-whole-picture-on-tax-rates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Calafia Beach Pundit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[class warfare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Grannis writes in his blog Calafia Beach Pundit, Effective Tax rates are Highly Progressive, 1/19/12.
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		<title>Bad Economics is Also Bad Politics</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/01/bad-economics-is-also-bad-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Cogan]]></category>
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John Taylor and John Cogan write in the Wall Street Journal   Stimulus has Been a Washington Job Killer  10/3/11
Excerpts:
Temporary, targeted tax reductions and increases in government spending are not good economics. They have repeatedly failed to increase economic growth on a sustainable basis. What may come as a surprise is that such policies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Part of the Truth Can Be More Misleading than All of a Lie</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/12/a-part-of-the-truth-can-be-more-misleading-than-all-of-a-lie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Reynolds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[class warefare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Income and Wealth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Atlantic by Derek Thomson, The Most Important Graphs from 2011, 12/21/11
This graph shows how the richest 1% have take a larger share of the economy in the last 35 years:

&#8230; or does it?
This graph does consider the effect after taxes and transfer payments, but&#8230;

Why does it begin in 1979? The Reagan tax reform [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Collateral Damage to the Poor</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/11/collateral-damage-to-the-poor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Estate Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Landsburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Armchair Economist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal]]></category>

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Steve Landsberg, author of The Armchair Economist (a worthy read) writes in The Wall Street Journal How the Death Tax Hurts the Poor - It encourages the rich to pick extra fruit, leaving the trees a little barer for the rest of us. 10/29/11
Excerpt:
The death tax sends a powerful message to rich people: &#8220;You can&#8217;t leave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Foundation of Leeches</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/11/a-foundation-of-leeches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pajamas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]></category>

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… the elite have responsibility to use their largess wisely and not turn into the Kardashians. But that a fifth of one percent of the taxpayers are finding ways not to pay at the income tax rate on their large incomes does not hurt the republic as much as 50% of the population paying no income [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Would Prefer to Pay More Taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/10/i-would-prefer-to-pay-more-taxes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren Buffet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 2008 General Steel, Inc, the company I run, had a good year. We generated record sales, profits and taxes.
In 2009 volume fell sharply as a result the credit collapse and the collapse of the prices of the commodities we sell. We lost money and paid no taxes. In fact the losses will carry forward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Civilized Taxes are Low Taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/10/civilized-taxes-are-low-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/10/civilized-taxes-are-low-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[light bulbs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Skoussen]]></category>

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I&#8217;m proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is &#8211; I could be just as proud for half the money. &#8211; Arthur Godfrey..
Taxes are often defended as the price we pay for a civilized society. Yet financial newsletter writer Mark Skousen contends the opposite: that taxes are the price we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Random Thoughts 10.09.2011</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/10/random-thoughts-10-09-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 09:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[class warefare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry reid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herman Cain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>

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Preaching that this is not class warfare generally precedes a volley in the self destructive attacks on the wealthy.  It is like the shyster who precedes a dishonest act with “trust me.”
There was some news of some of the protesters on Wall Street being paid to march.  That pretty much sums up the integrity of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Other Side of the Social Contract</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/10/the-other-side-of-the-social-contract/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/10/the-other-side-of-the-social-contract/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capital gains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren Buffet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While our political conversation should be focused on the deficit and unemployment, or the size and role of the government in our lives, we have been distracted by rhetoric on fairness and the wealthy. We are mislead by extreme examples like Warren Buffet that most wealthy are not paying their fair share.  Warren Buffet decried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Liquid State of Inaction</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/10/a-liquid-state-of-inaction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 01:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fiscal policy]]></category>

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More than  few from the opposition have criticized corporations for sitting on too much cash.  Companies are not in the cash holding or cash management business.  Especially in today’s environment of near zero return on short term holdings, one should ask  why the companies are sitting on so much cash.  The short answer is that [...]]]></description>
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