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		<title>A Nation of Takers</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/02/02/a-nation-of-takers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fellow named Charles Sykes has written a new book titled A Nation of Takers: America&#8217;s Addiction to Getting Something for Nothing. In the first pages of his book Sykes presents a few scenes from what he calls &#8220;Moocher Nation.&#8221; Here&#8217;s my favorite scene: Q.  Why are you here? A.  To get some money Q.  What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super-Pacs, Citizens United and the Role of Supreme Court Justices</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/01/31/super-pacs-citizens-united-and-the-role-of-supreme-court-justices/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/01/31/super-pacs-citizens-united-and-the-role-of-supreme-court-justices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[super pacs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pappasontaxes.com/?p=29218</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I winced this morning when former Pennsylvania Governor, Democrat Ed Rendell, said that he hoped the Supreme Court majority that had decided the Citizens United case was paying close attention to the corrosive influence of super-pacs in the Republican primary.¹ Mr. Rendell apparently believes that the Citizen United Justices should have based their decision not on what the law was, but on what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debating Taxes with People Who Think You Just Want to Buy a Bigger Yacht</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/01/29/debating-taxes-with-people-who-think-you-just-want-to-buy-a-bigger-yacht/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/01/29/debating-taxes-with-people-who-think-you-just-want-to-buy-a-bigger-yacht/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics of Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservatism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pappasontaxes.com/?p=29135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the first rules of debate is that you should endeavor to understand your opponent&#8217;s argument &#8211; both the strong and weak points &#8211; better than he does. The pro-tax left is, apparently, unaware of this rule. Count left-leaning economist Robert H. Frank among those who simply do not understand why many conservative Americans, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romney&#8217;s Tax Returns</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/01/05/romneys-tax-returns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/01/05/romneys-tax-returns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[charitable contributions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BusinessWeek&#8217;s Julie Hirschfield Davis wonders why Mitt Romney says he won&#8217;t release his income tax returns: Romney, a multimillionaire who is by far the wealthiest of the Republican presidential candidates, said he has no plans to release his income tax returns if he wins his party’s nomination, setting himself apart from past nominees in both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Race Hustling Charlatan James Clyburn Says Newt Gingrich &#8220;Will Say Anything to Get a Charge&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/12/05/race-hustling-charlatan-james-clyburn-says-newt-gingrich-will-say-anything-to-get-a-charge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/12/05/race-hustling-charlatan-james-clyburn-says-newt-gingrich-will-say-anything-to-get-a-charge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Go to your bosom; knock there and ask your heart what it doth know that is like my brother&#8217;s fault.&#8221; - Measure for Measure, Act II, Scene ii - Congressman James Clyburn was asked by MSNBC&#8217;s non-partisan Newt-hater, Mika Brzezinski, what he thought of Gingrich&#8217;s recent surge in the Republican polls. Clyburn said, with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>60% of Americans Want Across-the-Board Spending Cuts</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/14/27845/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/14/27845/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polls]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[across the board cuts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don Surber of DailyMail reports that 60% of Americans want to see accross the board spending cuts: One good thing about overspending by $4 trillion since Barack Obama become president: It eliminated all the sacred cows. An overwhelming majority not seen in 39 years wants every federal government program to have its budget cut. Every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focus on Income Inequality is Misguided</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/08/focus-on-income-inequality-misguided/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/08/focus-on-income-inequality-misguided/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s Megan McArdle of The Atlantic on income inequality: I don&#8217;t care about income inequality. I care about the absolute condition of the poor&#8211;whether they are hungry, cold, and sick. But I do not care about the gap between their incomes, and those of Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. Nor the ratio of Gates and Buffett&#8217;s incomes to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Shakespearean Motto for the OWS Crowd</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/08/a-shakespearean-motto-for-the-ows-crowd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/08/a-shakespearean-motto-for-the-ows-crowd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was re-reading King Lear last night and these two lines uttered by the title character caught my eye: Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pygmy&#8217;s straw does pierce it. A perfect motto for the occupy wall street movement, don&#8217;t you think? The rich can buy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cato: Bloated Government Responsible for Greece&#8217;s Collapse</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/06/cato-bloated-government-responsible-for-greeces-collapse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/06/cato-bloated-government-responsible-for-greeces-collapse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel J. Mitchell writes in Helping to Explain Greece’s Collapse in a Single Picture: Politicians in Europe have spent decades creating a fiscal crisis by violating Mitchell’s Golden Rule and letting government grow faster than the private sector. As a result, government is far too big today, and nations such as Greece are in the process [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Veni, Vidi, Mortuus Est</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/21/veni-vidi-mortuus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/21/veni-vidi-mortuus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bush]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.pappastax.com/?p=27654</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Corbett Daly of Political Hot Sheet reports that, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared a laugh with a television news reporter moments after hearing deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had been killed. &#8220;We came, we saw, he died,&#8221; she joked when told of news reports of Qaddafi&#8217;s death by an aide in between formal interviews. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VP Joe Biden Says Women Will be Raped if Republicans Don&#8217;t Pass Obama Jobs Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/20/vp-joe-biden-says-women-will-be-raped-if-republicans-dont-pass-obama-jobs-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/20/vp-joe-biden-says-women-will-be-raped-if-republicans-dont-pass-obama-jobs-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fear mongering]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard of fear-mongering before but this latest example from Vice President Joe Biden takes the proverbial cake: If the Republicans don&#8217;t pass this bill, then rape will continue to rise. Murder will continue to rise; rape will continue to rise; all crime will continue to rise. This is despicable and cheap. Think about it. Any congressman could propose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Streeters are Ignorant About Taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/19/occupy-wall-streeters-are-ignorant-about-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/19/occupy-wall-streeters-are-ignorant-about-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[99 percenters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[james maule]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[marginal tax rates]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tax lies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our left-wing tax blogger friends James Maule and Linda Beale avidly support the Occupy Wall Street movement. Together, Maule and Beale have written dozens of posts about out how middle-class conservatives &#8211; tea partiers, in particular &#8211; have been victimized by right-wing lies about taxes. Well, the folks at Daily Intel have polled 50 Occupy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OWS Day of Rage (But Watch Out for Those Violent Tea Partiers)</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/15/but-watch-out-for-those-violent-tea-partiers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/15/but-watch-out-for-those-violent-tea-partiers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The irony is richer than Warren Buffett&#8217;s secretary. Reuters reports that the Occupy Wall Street mob, after two short weeks of relatively peaceful occupying, has gone violent in a global day of rage (emphasis is mine): Hundreds of hooded, masked protesters rampaged through Rome in some of the worst violence in the Italian capital for years Saturday, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MSNBC&#8217;s Steven Ratner: Capital Gains Tax is Cause of Income Gap</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/13/msnbcs-steven-ratner-capital-gains-tax-is-cause-of-income-gap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/13/msnbcs-steven-ratner-capital-gains-tax-is-cause-of-income-gap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It can&#8217;t be denied that the gap between the rich and the middle class has grown larger in the last ten years. So, the questions we should ask now are, 1) Why? 2) What do we do about it? Steven Ratner was on MSNBC this morning suggesting that the reason for the increase in the income/wealth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Newt Really Said</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/12/what-newt-really-said/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s bad enough when the left-wing radicals who run MSNBC make false accusations about conservatives, but it&#8217;s truly hideous when the network&#8217;s token conservative does so. This morning on Morning Joe ex-conservative Joe Scarborough feigned outrage at Newt Gingrich&#8217;s suggestion in last night&#8217;s Republican debate that Democratic congressmen Barney Frank and Chris Dodd should be prosecuted for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Corporation Hypocrites. Classic!</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/07/classic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Hat Tip: Power Line) Bookmark &#038; Share:]]></description>
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		<title>The Inevitable Consequences of Class Warfare Rhetoric</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/06/the-inevitable-consequences-of-class-warfare-rhetoric/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/06/the-inevitable-consequences-of-class-warfare-rhetoric/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow we&#8217;ve gone from tax-the-rich to kill-the-rich. Gee, I wonder how that happened? This story from Politico makes me pine for the gentler days of mere crosshairs on congressional districts: Several influential New York state lawmakers have received threatening mails  saying it is “time to kill the wealthy” if they don’t renew the state’s tax  surcharge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street, Solyndra and the Obama Double Standard</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/06/occupy-wall-street-solyndra-and-the-obama-double-standard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/06/occupy-wall-street-solyndra-and-the-obama-double-standard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Hayes just made a brilliant observation about the disconnect between President Obama&#8217;s support of the Wall Street occupiers and his defense of his administration&#8217;s decision to invest in Solyndra: The President says the Wall Street protesters are rightfully upset at Wall Street for taking unreasonable risks with their money yet he defends his own administration&#8217;s unreasonable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smaller Government, Less Regulation is Better for Everyone</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/04/less-government-regulation-is-better-for-everyone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/04/less-government-regulation-is-better-for-everyone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As readers of this blog know, I am a frequent reader of Linda Beale&#8217;s tax blog ataxingmatter. I recently left a comment on one of her posts objecting to the left&#8217;s demonization of conservatives as either stupid or malicious and said the following: Conservatives have a good faith belief that less government regulation, lower taxes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Dollars at Work: Is Public Education Really About the Students</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/26/is-public-education-really-all-about-the-students/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/26/is-public-education-really-all-about-the-students/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we go again. Walter Olson reports at Cato that taxpayers can&#8217;t require their childrens&#8217; teachers to speak proper English: As Pat Kossan reports in the Arizona Republic, the state of Arizona has averted a threatened civil-rights lawsuit from Washington by agreeing to stop monitoring teachers’ English fluency and pronunciation in the classroom. “In November, federal officials told [...]]]></description>
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