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    Jesse Jackson Jr. Going To Jail

    He'll get his own talk show on MSNBC for $5M a year. The far left will continue to fawn over him and tell him what a great man he is -- and, of course, he'll believe every word of it.
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    Kalifornia Going Full Tilt Liberal - Adios Muchachos

    I've lived in California for over twenty years. Democrats control over 90% of city governments, many of which are either in bankruptcy or on the verge of bankruptcy. California's credit rating is now the worst in the country. California has had the 4th highest per-capita tax burden in the...
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    Traders overwhelmingly back Romney.

    I am also a wining trader. For 21 years. I don't mind paying taxes, but I don't like being lied to. Obama says that he wants to close the deficit by "taxing the rich" and "closing business tax loopholes." The CBO calculates that raising taxes on people like me will close 6% of the deficit and...
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    republican:It Won’t ‘Kill The Country’ To Raise Taxes On Millionaires

    Taxes raised on those making over $250k will only solve about 6% of the deficit. Closing all the business tax loopholes will contribute about 9%. Where's the other 85% going to come from? I don't hear anyone talking about that.
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    The Czech Republic's FM, Miroslav Kalousek, has stood with the UK and Sweden against the FTT every step of the way. His vote is pretty reliable. Denmark (7 votes) is another possible "no" vote. Margrethe Vestager, Danish FM, has said publicly that she thinks the FTT is a job killer. If the...
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    Traders overwhelmingly back Romney.

    If you're interested in learning more about the destructive nature of the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) please read: http://financialtransactiontaxes.com/
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    Traders overwhelmingly back Romney.

    You're not being adversarial. You're asking an important question. There are two financial transaction tax (FTT) bills pending in Congress: (a) Harkin-Defazio, (b) Ellison. The Harkin-Defazio bill would place a .3% tax on all stock and bond transactions and a .03% tax on all derivative...
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    Why the GOP will lose in 2016

    What does "pro-Latino" mean? Here in California it means pro-illegal immigration.
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    Matt Taibbi: Mitt Romney Would Have Won If Republicans 'Were Self-Aware At All'

    Romney's campaign was run by amateurs. On election day alone while trying to "get out the vote" they broke every rule of good management. -- Flawed execution (centralizing an essentially decentralized effort) -- Flawed technology (never tested) -- Flawed process (never rehearsed with...
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    Louisiana Petetion To Withdraw From The Union

    There are 4.5 million people in Louisiana. About 2,500 have signed the peitition. Let's say 50,000 end up signing it, or even 100,000. So what? That's 1-2% of the population. This is going nowhere.
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    Michael Tomasky on the Coming Post-Election GOP Freak Out

    They "chanted political slogans." Shocking! It was one incident at one university that involved "less than 2% of the student body." There were no injuries and no property damage. In a nation of over three hundred million people and over 2000 colleges and universities, a few of them at...
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    Michael Tomasky on the Coming Post-Election GOP Freak Out

    Conservatives around here went absolutely crazy when they found out Obama won. A guy I know made a fist and whispered, "Damn." The woman who lives next door had two glasses of wine with dinner instead of just one. These dangerous conservatives are completely out of control.
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    Thomas Sowell - Povert and Dependence.

    I have the entire collection of Sowell's books and articles in my library. My oldest daughter has been reading them and using them for research for her school reports. Great stuff.
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    Google Search Query Spikes

    Technically, yes. If it's determined by the US Treasury that you're renouncing your US citizenship to avoid taxes, the IRS will demand that you continue to file and pay for 10 years. From a practical standpoint, it's very difficult for the IRS to collect taxes from someone who's not a US citizen...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    The Treasury Secretary can influence the President's tax agenda, and the President then lobbies Congress to enact that agenda into law. When Obama first took office he was in favor of the FTT. Summers and Geithner talked him out of it (or so the story goes). Geithner killed FTT talk at...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    Increased likelyhood that the next Treasury Secretary will support FTT. http://washingtonexaminer.com/report-google-and-facebook-competing-for-an-obama-cabinet-slot/article/2512982#.UJwE3UbCz8A White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew is the favorite to replace Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner...
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    Fiscal cliff

    Yes. They have no intention of making the spending cuts. All they want to do is create the illusion cutting spending. It's just the same lame trick over and over again. Most people are too stupid to see it.
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    Fiscal cliff

    That's what they always do in one form or another -- kick the can down the road. Tax increases are always certain and immediate. Spending cuts are promises made for some ambiguous time in the distant future. That's the game.
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    The Senate cannot unilaterally impose a tax. It requires approval by the House of Representatives, also. I don't see the House approving the FTT. Nothing has changed as far as the FTT is concerned. Obama is still President; the Republicans still control the house; and the Senate is split and...
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    For Hoofhearted, a debate on unemployment and budgets

    http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2012/10/05/mort-zuckerman-why-the-country-is-unhappy-under-obama?s_cid=related-links:TOP "If you are on disability, you are not considered to be in the labor force either. As of April, we have added 5.5 million people to the disability rolls since the...
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