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		<title>Congressional Democrats are Wealthier than Republican Counterparts</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/16/congressional-democrats-are-wealthier-than-republican-counterparts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PJ Media reports that seven of the top ten wealthiest members in Congress are Democrats: Yes America, there is a wealth gap. Seven of the top ten wealthiest members in Congress are Democrats. The results are based on a new study released today by the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics. The Center did an analysis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Taxpayers, Johns, Guilty Until Proven Innocent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago vice squads in West Palm Beach, Florida began the practice of giving local beat reporters the names and mugshots of men who had been arrested for allegedly soliciting prostitutes. I believed then, and still do, that in a country that declares a man to be innocent until proven guilty, the practice is illegal.¹ The reporters, of course, maintain that they have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Reasons a Millionaire Tax is Dumb</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/07/5-reasons-a-millionaire-tax-is-dumb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legislative Watch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Howard Gleckman of TaxVox writes in The Democrats Millionaire Tax: Smart Politics, Awful Policy: Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid’s plan to fund a $445 billion stimulus, err, jobs bill with a 5.6 percent surtax on millionaires is not all bad. After all, Tax the Rich does make a nice campaign bumper-sticker. But it is mostly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain, Hagan Repatriation Tax Holiday Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/07/mccain-hagan-introduce-repatriation-tax-holiday-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/07/mccain-hagan-introduce-repatriation-tax-holiday-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WebCPA reports that Senators John McCain, R-Ariz., and Kay Hagan, D-N.C., introduced legislation Thursday allowing multinational corporations to repatriate their foreign earnings at a reduced tax rate: The bipartisan bill, known as the Foreign Earnings Reinvestment Act, aims to trigger the flow of $1 trillion from the foreign subsidiaries of U.S.-based multinationals at a reduced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Denmark&#8217;s Fat Tax</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/06/denmarks-fat-tax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If President Obama and the tax-happy left get their way, this is what is coming in America. Lisa Abend of TIME reports that Denmark has just enacted a tax on fatty foods: The tax, the first of its kind in the world, imposes a 16 krone (roughly $3) hike per kilo of saturated fat on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scapegoating Anecdotes Creating Tax Laws</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/06/anecdotes-create-tax-legislation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Janet Novak of Forbes writes today in Billionaire Poster Boys for Tax Reform: Mellon, Buffett, Schwarzman&#8230;And Koch? President Barack Obama’s decision to brand his bid to tax the rich more—the “Buffett rule”–  is hardly unprecedented,  but it is plenty savvy. “Anecdotes have caused all sorts of tax legislation,’’ says Columbia University Law Professor Michael J. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senator Chuck Schumer: Don&#8217;t Tax My Rich</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/20/senator-chuck-schumer-dont-tax-my-rich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is classicker than Coke. Andrew Stiles of The National Review wrote the following in Schumer: Tax the Rich, Just Not My Rich (emphasis added): CBS News reports that Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) isn’t such a big fan President Obama’s plan to raise taxes on households making more than $250,000 a year. After announcing his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Majority Leader Reid Lambasts Tax Cuts he Voted For</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/19/senate-majority-leader-reid-lambasts-tax-cuts-he-voted-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) voted last December to extend the Bush Tax Cuts. Here is Mr. Reid&#8217;s new position on the those cuts:: More than anyone else, these millionaires and billionaires benefited from Bush tax cuts and contributed $3 trillion to our deficit, to help plunge this nation into a financial hole. A balanced approach to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Still Claims the Rich Aren&#8217;t Paying their Fair Share of Taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/19/obama-still-says-rich-arent-paying-their-fair-share-of-taxes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s President Obama on his latest deficit plan which includes a special surtax on millionaires: It follows a balanced approach: asking everyone to do their part, so no one has to bear all the burden. And it says that everyone - including millionaires and billionaires - has to pay their fair share. Surely the President must know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama to Unveil Deficit Reduction Plan</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/19/obama-to-unveil-deficit-reduction-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/19/obama-to-unveil-deficit-reduction-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WaPo reports: President Obama will announce a proposal on Monday to tame the nation’s rocketing federal debt, calling for $1.5 trillion in new revenue as part of a plan to find more than $3 trillion in budget savings over a decade, senior administration officials said. The proposal draws a sharp contrast with Republicans and amounts more to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No More New Tax Patents</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/19/no-more-new-tax-patents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/19/no-more-new-tax-patents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Who says they can&#8217;t get anything done in D.C.? The Journal of Accountancy reports that last Friday President Obama signed into law the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (HR 1249), which reforms the U.S. patent system and stops the granting of patents for tax strategies: Under the act, any “strategy for reducing, avoiding, or deferring tax liability” is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama to Propose Buffett Rule: A Minimum Tax Rate for the Uber-Rich</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/18/obama-to-propose-a-minimum-tax-rate-for-the-uber-rich/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/18/obama-to-propose-a-minimum-tax-rate-for-the-uber-rich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The tenth rule of the ethics of rules and means is that you do what you can with what you have and clothe it in moral arguments. …the essence of Lenin’s speeches during this period was “They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaker Boehner to Super Committee: Tax Hikes are Off the Table</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/15/speaker-boehner-to-super-committee-tax-hikes-are-off-the-table/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/15/speaker-boehner-to-super-committee-tax-hikes-are-off-the-table/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Liberto of CNNMoney has the story: WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) &#8212; House Speaker John Boehner drew a line in the sand on taxes on Thursday, saying that a special debt committee tasked with cutting at least $1.2 trillion from federal deficits shouldn&#8217;t consider tax hikes. &#8220;Tax increases, I think, are off the table,&#8221; Boehner said in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Seems that the Expiration of a Tax Cut is a Tax Increase After All</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/09/it-seems-that-the-expiration-of-a-tax-cut-is-a-tax-increase-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember last year&#8217;s debate about whether or not we should extend the Bush tax cuts? Do you remember how the Democrats and their soak-the-rich friends kept insisting that the expiration of those tax cuts did not amount to a tax increase? On July 25th, 2010 I wrote the following in a post titled Truth &#38; Taxes: Not Extending the Bush [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Gets Four Pinocchios for Tax Lie; Left Wing Tax Bloggers Remain Silent</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/07/obama-gets-four-pinocchios-for-tax-lie-left-wing-tax-bloggers-remain-silent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post&#8217;s Fact Checker tells of yet another left-wing tax lie that you won&#8217;t see reported on the blog pages of liberal tax bloggers Linda Beale and James Maule.¹ “We said working folks deserved a break, so within one month of me taking office, we signed into law the biggest middle-class tax cut in history, putting more money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congresswoman Threatens to Use Taxes to Destroy Banks</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/01/congresswoman-threatens-to-use-taxes-to-destroy-banks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legislative Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The power to tax involves the power to destroy.&#8221; - Justice John Marshall, McCulloch v Maryland - Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) is known for her outlandish statements, but this one is impressive even for her: If [the banks] don’t come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes that they’ve worked so hard for, we’re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Makes a lot of Math Errors</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/08/26/irs-makes-a-lot-of-math-errors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/08/26/irs-makes-a-lot-of-math-errors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS procedure]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) has released Some Taxpayer Responses to Math Error Adjustments Were Not Worked Timely and Accurately (2011-40-059). Here&#8217;s a brief summary: Most (98.4%) of the approximately 8.6 million math error notices were agreed to by the taxpayer. However, our review identified that some responses in which taxpayers disagreed with the math [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economists Say We Need to Cut Medicare and Medicaid</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/08/23/economists-say-we-need-to-cut-medicare-and-medicaid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/08/23/economists-say-we-need-to-cut-medicare-and-medicaid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Henchman of The Tax Policy Blog reports that most economists say the government should focus primarily on spending cuts in order to reduce the federal deficit: The majority of economists surveyed by the National Association for Business Economics believe the federal deficit should be reduced only or primarily through spending cuts. The survey out Monday found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democrat Senator Frank Lautenberg Says Eliminate the Rich (RETRACTED)</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/08/19/senator-lautenberg-we-gotta-eliminate-the-rich/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/08/19/senator-lautenberg-we-gotta-eliminate-the-rich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RETRACTION: At the prompting of an alert reader I watched the video again and have concluded that Mr. Lautenberg did not say eliminate the &#8220;rich&#8221;, but rather, eliminate the &#8220;waste.&#8221; See my post Retraction: Lautenberg Did Not Say Eliminate the Rich, He said Eliminate the Waste. Uber-liberal and uber-rich Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) yesterday said what socialists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mortgage Interest Deduction in Jeopardy</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/08/14/mortgage-interest-deduction-in-jeopardy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/08/14/mortgage-interest-deduction-in-jeopardy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Deductible Expenses]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenneth Harney of The Washington Post says that elimination or scale-back of the mortgage interest deduction is on the table in deficit negotiations: After decades of being considered politically sacrosanct, why are homeowner mortgage write-offs suddenly on the chopping block? Sheer size is the No. 1 reason. The congressional Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that [...]]]></description>
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