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		<title>Oklahoma Republicans Want to Abolish the State Income Tax</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/02/02/oklahoma-republicans-want-to-abolish-the-state-income-tax/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/02/02/oklahoma-republicans-want-to-abolish-the-state-income-tax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oklahoma state tax]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The AP&#8217;s Sean Murphy reports that Oklahoma Republicans want to abolish their state income tax: A year after Republicans swept into office across the country, many have trained their sights on what has long been a fiscal conservative&#8217;s dream: the steep reduction or even outright elimination of state income taxes. The idea has circulated among academics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Low Tax, Non-Union Red States Outperform High Tax, Union Blue States</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/07/low-tax-non-union-red-states-out-perform-high-tax-union-blue-states/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/07/low-tax-non-union-red-states-out-perform-high-tax-union-blue-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pro buinsess climate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[right to work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[union v non union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wealth flight]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.pappastax.com/?p=27797</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t tell the propagandists of the pro-tax, pro-union, pro-big government crowd this but the red states (you know, the ones with all of those toothless conservative rednecks in them), and their low tax, pro-business policies regularly out-perform the blue states and their high tax, pro-union policies. John Hinderaker of PowerLine has the story (emphasis added): Today, we have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coloradans Say No to Tax Increases</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/02/coloradans-say-no-to-tax-increases/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/02/coloradans-say-no-to-tax-increases/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax increases]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Henchman of Tax Policy Blog reports in Colorado Voters Reject Income and Sales Tax Increase: Colorado voters yesterday rejected Proposition 103, which would have raised $2.9 billion between 2012 and 2016 by raising the state income tax from 4.63% to 5% and the state sales tax from 2.9% to 3% for five years. 36.3% voted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Taxpayers, Johns, Guilty Until Proven Innocent</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/15/innocent-until-proven-guilty-not-when-it-comes-to-state-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/15/innocent-until-proven-guilty-not-when-it-comes-to-state-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legislative Watch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[publishing tax delinquents]]></category>

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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>CBPP Admits Tax Flight Occurs in Study Titled &#8220;Tax Flight is a Myth&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/08/05/cbpp-admits-tax-flight-occurs-in-study-titled-tax-flight-is-a-myth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/08/05/cbpp-admits-tax-flight-occurs-in-study-titled-tax-flight-is-a-myth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics of Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[center on budget policy priorities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Center On Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) has, once again, contorted itself to make the case for increased taxes. In a report titled Tax Flight is a Myth the CBPP claims that, Attacks on sorely-needed increases in state tax revenues often include the unproven claim that tax hikes will drive large numbers of households —particularly the most affluent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Trying to Stop State Taxing Authorities from Overreaching</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/07/08/house-trying-to-stop-state-taxing-authorities-from-overreaching/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/07/08/house-trying-to-stop-state-taxing-authorities-from-overreaching/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legislative Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic presence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[out of state sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physical presence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales tax]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve reported here that many states are trying to use their long arms to tax previously untaxable out of state Internet sales. Joseph Henchman of Tax Policy Blog reports that the House of Representatives is trying to prevent that: The House Judiciary Committee today approved the Business Activity Tax Simplification Act (BATSA) on a bipartisan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Your Tax Money Goes: Ohio Toll Collector Paid $103,150</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/27/where-your-tax-money-goes-ohio-toll-collector-paid-103150/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/27/where-your-tax-money-goes-ohio-toll-collector-paid-103150/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government waste]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Today, Ohio has the 7th highest state and local combined tax burden in the nation with taxes consuming 10.4 percent of the state&#8217;s income.&#8221; - Scott Hodge, Tax Policy Blog - Jim Fedako of the Mises Institute writes about what he calls the Exploitation Theory in Reverse: According to the Buckeye Institute, the highest paid Ohio Turnpike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Shocker of the Week: Tax Increases Drive Jobs Away in Illinois</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/25/tax-shocker-of-the-week-tax-increases-drive-jobs-away-in-illinois/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/25/tax-shocker-of-the-week-tax-increases-drive-jobs-away-in-illinois/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[henchman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illinois taxes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.pappastax.com/?p=22754</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[File this one under the category &#8220;Ya think?&#8221; Joseph Henchman of Tax Policy Blog writes in Illinois Legislators Hint that Tax Increases are Driving Away Jobs: In January, Illinois legislators approved raising their individual income tax rate from 3% to 5%, and raised the corporate income tax rate from 7.3% to 9.5%, retroactive to January [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Left My Heart in Tax Francisco</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/25/i-left-my-heart-in-tax-francisco/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/25/i-left-my-heart-in-tax-francisco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics of Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[city taxes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.pappastax.com/?p=22744</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When the New York Times thinks you&#8217;ve gone too far on taxes, you&#8217;ve probably gone too far on taxes: In most of the country, tax increases are anathema. Not in San Francisco. The city’s public employee unions are a potent political force; business groups are focused on business taxes; resident taxpayers are disorganized and inconsequential, politically. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax on Computer Downloads</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/22/the-music-tax/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/22/the-music-tax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[itune tax]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CPA Tonya Moreno writes that more states are charging sales tax on digital downloads to pump up state revenue.  On July 1, 2010 Wyoming became the latest state to begin charging 4% sales tax on digital downloads held for permanent use.  And they&#8217;re just one of many states that tax downloads.  New Jersey was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Low Tax Red State Schools Outperform High Tax Blue State Schools</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/21/red-state-schools-outperform-blue-state-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/21/red-state-schools-outperform-blue-state-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legislative Watch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mead]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walter Russell Mead writing for American Interest says that red state schools regularly outperform blue state schools. This is classiker than a Ford Model T: When it come to excellence in education, red states rule — at least according to a panel of experts assembled by Tina Brown’s Newsweek.  Using a set of indicators ranging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Leaving</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/20/i-left-my-organization-chart-in-san-francisco/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/20/i-left-my-organization-chart-in-san-francisco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Perry of Carpe Diem reports that California businessmen are fleeing the state in droves: California currently ranks #49 among U.S. states for &#8220;business tax climate&#8221; (Tax Foundation) and #48 for for &#8220;economic freedom&#8221; (Mercatus).  It shouldn&#8217;t be any surprise then that companies are leaving the &#8220;Golden State&#8221; in record numbers this year (see chart above) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Taxation of Internet Sales. Is it Coming?</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/19/state-taxation-of-internet-sales-is-it-coming/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/19/state-taxation-of-internet-sales-is-it-coming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press reports that struggling states are again making noises about taxing online sales: State governments across the country are laying off teachers, closing public libraries and parks, and reducing health care services, but there is one place they could get $23 billion if they could only agree how to do it: Internet retailers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Increases Corporate Tax Exemption: Will it Create Jobs?</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/16/florida-increases-corporate-tax-exemption-will-it-create-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/16/florida-increases-corporate-tax-exemption-will-it-create-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Henchman reports in Florida Increases Corporate Income Tax Exemptions, Debates Repeal: Florida&#8217;s government has a $69 billion annual budget, and about $2 billion of that comes from the state corporate income tax. Enacted in 1971, that tax currently stands at a rate of 5.5 percent. Governor Rick Scott (R) took office this year and has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lap Dances Not Art, Subject to NY Sales Tax</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/13/lap-dances-are-taxable-in-new-york/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/13/lap-dances-are-taxable-in-new-york/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lap dance tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paul caron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax exempt art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Paul Caron by way of the Albany Times-Union tells us that the New York Supreme Court has ruled that Lap Dances Aren&#8217;t Tax-Exempt: While a lap dance might prompt a strong reaction from an audience, it doesn&#8217;t rise to the level of art &#8212; at least according to a state appellate court. Thursday&#8217;s ruling said entertainers at a local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Freest States are the Reddest States</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/11/freedom-rankings-of-the-states/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/11/freedom-rankings-of-the-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Mercatus Center at George Mason University has issued a ranking of the states from most to least free: This project develops an index of economic and personal freedom in the American states. Specifically, it examines state and local government intervention across a wide range of public policies, from income taxation to gun control, from homeschooling regulation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxless Texas Leads Country in New Jobs Since Recession</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/10/taxless-texas-leads-country-in-new-jobs-since-recession/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/10/taxless-texas-leads-country-in-new-jobs-since-recession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[low taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[small government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soak the rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax the rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[texas growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wall street journal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal reports that 37% of all net new American jobs since the recovery began were created in Texas and explains why (emphasis added): What explains this Lone Star success? Texas is a big state, but its population of 24.7 million isn&#8217;t that much bigger than the Empire State, about 19.5 million. California [...]]]></description>
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		<title>States Rolling Back Soak the Rich Strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/09/states-rolling-back-soak-the-rich-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/09/states-rolling-back-soak-the-rich-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 01:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics of Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bill gates sr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[james maule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linda beale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soak the rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state tax increase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax the rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wealth flight]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe state legislators have been reading my blog posts tagged &#8220;wealth flight&#8221; because Steven Sloanfrom Bloomberg Businessweek reports they&#8217;re rolling back tax increases on job creators: Millionaires can breathe a bit easier. While President Barack Obama says he wants to let income tax cuts that benefit only the wealthiest Americans expire in 2013, several states are rolling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best States for Business Have no Personal Income Tax</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/05/04/surprise-surprise-the-best-states-for-business-have-no-personal-income-tax/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/05/04/surprise-surprise-the-best-states-for-business-have-no-personal-income-tax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 11:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job creation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[russ fox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax the rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wealth flight]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.pappastax.com/?p=21730</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Russ Fox of Taxable Talk has published a nice little list of the top and bottom 10 states for business climate: Here in the Bronze Golden State, discovering that you rank at the bottom of a list is all in a day’s work. Another list of business climate, this one from the Small Business &#38; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Income Taxes, a Thing of the Past?</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/04/06/state-income-taxes-a-thing-of-the-past/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/04/06/state-income-taxes-a-thing-of-the-past/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forbes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peter ferrara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state income tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Ferrara of Forbes writes in The Anachronism of State Income Taxes that, Nine states survive perfectly well with no state income tax at all. These include large states such as Texas and Florida, medium-size states such as Tennessee and Washington, and smaller states, in terms of population, such as New Hampshire, Nevada, South Dakota, [...]]]></description>
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