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		<title>Egalitarianism, Or Pulling Everyone Down</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/24/inequality-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.&#8221; - Samuel Johnson - Greg Mankiw has this from Peter Orzag on the inequality of healthcare in America: Americans are living longer than ever &#8212; but, as documented in a recent National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vancouver Riots: I Wonder Where They Got That Entitlement Mentality From?</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/17/vancouver-riots-i-wonder-where-they-got-that-entitlement-mentality-from/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/17/vancouver-riots-i-wonder-where-they-got-that-entitlement-mentality-from/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 05:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[boston bruins]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.pappastax.com/?p=22236</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;One of the consequences of such notions as &#8220;entitlements&#8221; is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.&#8221; - Thomas Sowell - It should come as no surprise that Canadians feel entitled to have their team win [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Issues Guidance on Small Business Health Insurance Tax Credit</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/05/21/irs-issues-guidance-on-small-business-health-insurance-tax-credit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/05/21/irs-issues-guidance-on-small-business-health-insurance-tax-credit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 20:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shirl Kennedy of Docuticker reports that the IRS has issued Notice 2010-44 Tax Credit for Employee Health Insurance Expenses of Small Employers: The Internal Revenue Service today issued new guidance to make it easier for small businesses to determine whether they are eligible for the new health care tax credit under the Affordable Care Act and how large [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Commissioner on Enforcement of Health Insurance Mandate</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/04/08/irs-commissioner-on-enforcement-of-health-insurance-mandate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/04/08/irs-commissioner-on-enforcement-of-health-insurance-mandate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doug shulman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moms Mabley had more teeth than the health insurance mandate. But Timothy Noah of Slate says IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman has a plan to enforce the health insurance mandate included in the recently passed healthcare bill: Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Doug Shulman seemed to indicate that if you didn&#8217;t purchase health insurance and then refused to pay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Americans Overtaxed?</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/04/02/americans-overtaxed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/04/02/americans-overtaxed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[caron]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[obamacare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Caron posts an excerpt from an article written by Harvard Economist Greg Mankiw that suggests the pro-tax intelligentsia is wrong when it says that Americans are undertaxed: Some pundits, reflecting on the looming U.S. budget deficits, claim that Americans are vastly undertaxed compared with other major nations. I was wondering, to what extent is that true? The most common metric for answering this question [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Employees Threatened with Death if they Enforce Healthcare Provisions</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/03/31/irs-employees-threatened-with-death-if-they-enforce-healthcare-provisions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/03/31/irs-employees-threatened-with-death-if-they-enforce-healthcare-provisions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.pappastax.com/?p=15796</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You can&#8217;t always get what you want.&#8221;  - The Rolling Stones - Mick Jagger might have been thinking about democracy when he wrote that line. I don&#8217;t like the new healthcare bill. I think it&#8217;s too expensive and I think it&#8217;s bad for the economy. Still, I accept it as the law of the land because it was passed by a majority [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Clyburn, Van Cliburn, Race Baiting and Robert Frost</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/03/30/this-clyburn-plays-only-the-black-keys/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/03/30/this-clyburn-plays-only-the-black-keys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One difference between House Majority Whip James Clyburn and the virtuouso American pianist of the late 50&#8242;s and early 60&#8242;s, Van Cliburn, is that the former plays only the black keys. We have written before about the archaic antics of the always reliable, utterly predictable and wholly unoriginal Mr. Clyburn. Well, never one to let an opportunity pass to foment racial division, the congressman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying for Obamacare: Tax Hikes &amp; Medicare Cuts</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/03/29/paying-for-obamacare-tax-hikes-medicare-cuts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/03/29/paying-for-obamacare-tax-hikes-medicare-cuts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tax Foundation issued the following News Release this weekend breaking down how the nearly $1 trillion healthcare bill will be financed: The $938 billion health care reform legislation finalized by Congress yesterday is financed primarily through net cuts to Medicare and an increased Medicare tax on high-income taxpayers, according to the Tax Foundation. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Balloon Will Burst</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/03/28/the-balloon-will-burst/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/03/28/the-balloon-will-burst/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Gregory closed this morning&#8217;s edition of Meet the Press with the following statement about the newly enacted healthcare bill and Republican promises to repeal it: It&#8217;s very difficult to take  away a benefit from the American people once it&#8217;s been given. To even the casual observer of American politics and governance this is no revelation. Nevertheless, far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tanning Tax? How About a Tax on Hip Hop Music?</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/03/25/tanning-tax-okay-how-about-a-tax-on-hip-hop-music/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/03/25/tanning-tax-okay-how-about-a-tax-on-hip-hop-music/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Caron writes that a tanning salon lawyer has questioned the constitutionality of the tax on tanning services included in the recently passed healthcare bill: I [have] a question about the intersection of taxation and civil rights law. It strikes me that the health care bill which requires that indoor tanning salons charge customers a 10% tax beginning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Income Equality is My Goal, but Don&#8217;t You Dare Call me a Socialist</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/03/25/income-equality-is-my-goal-but-dont-you-dare-call-me-a-socialist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/03/25/income-equality-is-my-goal-but-dont-you-dare-call-me-a-socialist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collectivism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.&#8221;¹  - Barack Obama - If you had any doubts about the collectivist designs of this administration, reading the fine print of Obamacare will assuage them. The New York Times reports that the newly enacted healthcare reform law is, in fact, a wealth redistribution bill: For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blood on Their Hands?</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/03/23/blood-on-their-hands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/03/23/blood-on-their-hands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few car crash statistics published by the Federal Highway Administration: There were nearly 6,420,000 auto accidents in the United States in 2005. The financial cost of these crashes was more than 230 billion dollars. 2.9 million people were injured and 42,636 people killed. About 115 people die every day in vehicle crashes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Changes in Healthcare Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/03/23/tax-changes-in-healthcare-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/03/23/tax-changes-in-healthcare-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[house passes healthcare bill]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tax Foundation has a list of the tax provisions included in the recently passed House healthcare reform bill: All starting dates are January 1 of that year, unless otherwise noted. This list is fairly exhaustive, meaning it includes virtually every tax provision. The major provisions, as defined as those projected to raise or lose more than $10 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Confiscation Ain&#8217;t Progress</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/03/10/confiscation-is-not-progress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/03/10/confiscation-is-not-progress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama&#8217;s healthcare plan raises the 1.45% Medicare payroll tax to 2.35% for families with more than $250,000 of earned income.  Spread-the-wealther Timothy Noah of Slate wonders why Republicans aren&#8217;t making a bigger stink about this tax increase: Maybe the recession has made solicitude on the part of the rich less plausible to the electorate. Maybe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obamacare to Increase Taxes by $412 Billion</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/02/26/obamacare-to-increase-taxes-by-412-billion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/02/26/obamacare-to-increase-taxes-by-412-billion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legislative Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[class warfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle class tax hike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obamacare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soak the rich]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can call it a healthcare bill if you like, but it would be just as fair to call it a tax increase bill. Thomas Barthold, Chief of Staff of the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation¹, issued a report scoring the tax proposals of the President&#8217;s healthcare plan: I am providing you with a table of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Huge Middle-Class Tax Hike in Senate Healthcare Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/02/05/huge-middle-class-tax-hike-in-senate-healthcare-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/02/05/huge-middle-class-tax-hike-in-senate-healthcare-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaign promises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle class tax hikes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[senate healthcare bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soak the rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax hikes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So much for the promise not to raise taxes on the middle-class. Douglas Holtz-Eaken and Alex Brill have written an Op-Ed for the Wall Street Journal titled Another Obama Tax Hike: The Senate Health-Care Bill Would Raise Effective Marginal Tax Rates on Lower and Middle-Income Singles and Families up to 41%: [The Senate health care bill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Hike on Investment Income?</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/01/17/tax-hike-on-investment-income/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/01/17/tax-hike-on-investment-income/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legislative Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cadillac plan tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor union deal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax the rich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Democrats postponed the imposition of the luxury tax on the Cadillac insurance plans of labor union members, they are scammering to replace the lost revenues in order to keep their promise of deficit neutral healthcare reform. Mike Godfrey of TaxNews.com reports that Congressional Democrats are considering the imposition of an additional tax on passive investment income:    Senior Congressional Democrats are exploring the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cadillac Tax, Labor Unions, Maggot Cheese and The Metamorphosis</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/01/15/the-cadillac-tax-and-the-labor-union-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/01/15/the-cadillac-tax-and-the-labor-union-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legislative Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cadillac plan tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cadillac plans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cadillac tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[class warfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor union deal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama tax policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surtax on rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax the rich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from a troubled dream, he found himself changed in his bed into a giant cockroach.&#8221;  - First line of Franz Kafka&#8217;s The Metamorphosis - Whoever coined the adage, &#8220;don&#8217;t tax me, don&#8217;t tax thee, tax the guy behind the tree,&#8221; knew whereof he spoke.  WebCPA reports that President Obama and Congressional Democrats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CSPAN Calls Obama, Democrats Transparency Bluff</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/01/07/cspan-calls-democrats-transparency-bluff/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/01/07/cspan-calls-democrats-transparency-bluff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legislative Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harry reid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare debate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pelosi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama and his Democrat buddies spent eight years criticizing the secretiveness of the Bush administration. Now, they&#8217;ll have a chance to put up or shut up. (CueFinal Jeopardy Theme) The House and Senate will be meeting to attempt a reconciliation of the differences between the healthcare reform bills passed by their respective chambers. CBS News [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax on Cadillac Plans not Really a Tax, Says MIT Economist</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2009/12/29/tax-on-cadillac-plans-not-really-a-tax-says-mit-economist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2009/12/29/tax-on-cadillac-plans-not-really-a-tax-says-mit-economist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backdoor taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cadillac plan tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cadillac plans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jonathan gruber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mit economist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax increase]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The St. Petersburg Times has a column written by MIT economist Jonathan Gruber who claims that the tax on Cadillac insurance plans isn&#8217;t really a tax increase after all: The assessment proposed in the Senate is not a new tax; it is the elimination of an existing tax break&#8230;. Under current law, if workers are paid [...]]]></description>
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