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	<title>The Reality-Based Community &#187; Taxation</title>
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		<title>More on the Buffett challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/02/taxation/more-on-the-buffett-challenge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/02/taxation/more-on-the-buffett-challenge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Income distribution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Warren Buffett challenged Mitch McConnell to help him pay down the deficit, McConnell paid him no never-mind—but a teenage girl in Northbrook, IL heard and responded, sending $300 to the Feds and asking Buffett to do the same.  This is an adorable story, and the video makes it more adorable still. But let’s not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The billionaire vs. free-riding multimillionaires</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/watching-conservatives/the-billionaire-vs-free-riding-multimillionaires/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/watching-conservatives/the-billionaire-vs-free-riding-multimillionaires/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Kleiman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love this account of a pissing match between Warren Buffett and Mitch McConnell.  The Senator from Kentucky has been urging the Sage of Omaha to make voluntary contributions to the Treasury if he felt he was undertaxed.  Buffett has now responded that he’ll match any such contributions made by Republican Senators. This dialogue makes in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>Wall Streeters don&#8217;t balance New York&#8217;s budget. Taxes on Wall Streeters do.</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/taxation/wall-streeters-dont-balance-new-yorks-budget-taxes-on-wall-streeters-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/taxation/wall-streeters-dont-balance-new-yorks-budget-taxes-on-wall-streeters-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Sabl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gotham City]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another commentator faults the 99 percenters for failing to see that Wall Street types contribute to "the public purse." But they don't. It's their taxes that do.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Willard&#8217;s carried interest</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/taxation/willards-carried-interest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/taxation/willards-carried-interest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Willard Mitt Romney pays a lower tax rate on the millions of dollars he continues to earn from his asset-stripping activities at Bain Capital than ordinary folks pay on their income. Sounds like an issue to me.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
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		<title>What should (but won&#8217;t) be the last word on the charitable tax deduction</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/policy-analysis/what-should-but-wont-be-the-last-word-on-the-charitable-tax-deduction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/policy-analysis/what-should-but-wont-be-the-last-word-on-the-charitable-tax-deduction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Kleiman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most powerful argument in this LA Times op-ed piece opposing the charitable tax deduction is that it&#8217;s a poor trade-off.  Retired foundation executive Jack Shakely points out that charities have permitted themselves to be shorn of their ability to influence policy and politics in return for a mess of pottage.  Of course the restrictions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Independent Sector and the Joyce Foundation vs. The Facts</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/taxation/the-independent-sector-and-the-joyce-foundation-vs-the-facts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/taxation/the-independent-sector-and-the-joyce-foundation-vs-the-facts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Kleiman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ellen Alberding&#8217;s interview with the Chicago Tribune in advance of the Independent Sector&#8216;s meeting in Chicago earlier this week was not her, or philanthropy&#8217;s, finest hour.  Ms. Alberding, head of the Joyce Foundation, described the Foundation&#8217;s approach to what even she characterizes as a perfect storm of increased need and reduced resources in the nonprofit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on that Paul Starr book</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/10/politics-and-leadership/more-on-that-paul-starr-book/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/10/politics-and-leadership/more-on-that-paul-starr-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harold Pollack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Yglesias offers some gracious words about my review of Paul Starr’s book on health care reform. But he professes “worry that Pollack’s take on this falls into the progressive reformer trap of underplaying the centrality of tax policy disagreements to current American politics.”

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		<title>The charitable deduction: Beyond &#8220;Will not!&#8221;  &#8220;Will so!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/10/policy-analysis/the-charitable-deduction-beyond-will-not-will-so/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/10/policy-analysis/the-charitable-deduction-beyond-will-not-will-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Kleiman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to my nonprofit consulting colleagues Campbell and Co. for sponsoring a study by the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy to determine the impact on giving of increased marginal tax rates and a cap the charitable-giving deduction.  While some of us have been arguing that both of these moves toward social justice should be supported [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Westen vs. Chait on Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/economics/westen-vs-chait-on-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/economics/westen-vs-chait-on-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2011 Democratic Agenda]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keith Humphreys’ thoughtful post called to mind some thoughts I wanted to jot down after re-reading Drew Westen’s NYT piece on Obama and Jonathan Chait’s blistering response to Westen in the New Republic. Westen is surely a primary target of Keith’s scorn, and I agree with both Chait and Keith that Westen grossly exaggerates what [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Illinois and the amazing disappearing property tax exemption</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/health-care/illinois-and-the-amazing-disappearing-property-tax-exemption/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/health-care/illinois-and-the-amazing-disappearing-property-tax-exemption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Kleiman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Harold Pollack wrote about the recent Illinois Department of Revenue decision to withdraw property tax exemptions from three hospitals, he naturally focused on the impact of the decision on health care.  But those of us who work in other areas of the nonprofit sector are worried by the decision as well&#8211;or, if we aren&#8217;t, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voluntary Taxation: The Tea Party Version</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/taxation/voluntary-taxation-the-tea-party-version/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/taxation/voluntary-taxation-the-tea-party-version/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Always great to see a post by Robert Frank at RBC, this time him skewering the stale and intellectually dishonest argument that &#8220;anyone who thinks his taxes are too low can just choose to send in a check to the guvmint&#8221;. I have been vaporizing Tea Partiers who intone this dreck for the past few [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Voluntary Taxation?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/taxation/voluntary-taxation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/taxation/voluntary-taxation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Frank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taxation is one thing; voluntary contributions are something else. Is this so hard to understand?]]></description>
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		<title>Buffett: tax me!</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/politics-and-leadership/buffett-tax-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/politics-and-leadership/buffett-tax-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Policy briefs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, a fair number of very rich people had a sense of obligation to the society in which they did so well, including both children of wealth who learned about philanthropy and maybe a duty to stand for office along with the difference between a sheet and a sail and which side [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>Distributing the Financial Benefits of Paternalism</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/07/energy-and-environment/distributing-the-financial-benefits-of-paternalism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/07/energy-and-environment/distributing-the-financial-benefits-of-paternalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 02:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I admire Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard for promising that 50% of the revenue from her proposed carbon tax will be returned to the Australian people as a tax cut. I’d admire her more if it were 100%, but nonetheless she deserves high marks for recognizing that there is no essential logical connection between reducing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arthur Brooks explains it all</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/economics/arthur-brooks-explains-it-all/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/economics/arthur-brooks-explains-it-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 03:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arthur Brooks, whom I teased in another context a couple of posts ago, straightens us out about fairness and taxes in that cave of wonders, the Washington Post opinion section: more taxes (than whatever number you have in mind, I guess) on people who have a lot of money are unfair. He sounds his horn [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>53</slash:comments>
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		<title>Living within the debt ceiling: a postcode solution</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/barack-obama/living-within-the-debt-ceiling-a-postcode-solution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/barack-obama/living-within-the-debt-ceiling-a-postcode-solution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wimberley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=18815</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Allocate the money available according to the House votes.]]></description>
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		<title>Tax expenditures for wealthy seniors &amp; entitlement reform</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/03/taxation/tax-expenditures-for-wealthy-seniors-entitlement-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/03/taxation/tax-expenditures-for-wealthy-seniors-entitlement-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harold Pollack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some policy wonks are concerned about intergenerational equity and entitlement reform. Anothers express concern about estate and gift tax breaks and excessive tax expenditures that go to wealthy people. These two groups don&#8217;t overlap as much as they should. Affluent seniors can afford to contribute more in addressing our economic and budgetary problems. So a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Government and the arts</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/02/arts-and-cultural-policy/government-and-the-arts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/02/arts-and-cultural-policy/government-and-the-arts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 06:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=17346</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last couple of weeks, there&#8217;s been a flurry of blogging interest in public support of the arts, whodathunkit.  As I&#8217;m teaching a course about it this semester, I would be delighted to have some curriculum material to assign, but unfortunately the discussion has petered out as it usually does with an inadequate fact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Right-sizing government</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/02/policy-analysis/right-sizing-government/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/02/policy-analysis/right-sizing-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health and Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libertarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=17312</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Can the assertion &#8220;Government is too big [or too small]&#8221; ever mean enough to support a serious conversation, much less a policy decision?  How about &#8220;California [or the US; plug in your own jurisdiction larger than a small town] can&#8217;t afford [plug in a program]&#8220;? What could such  statements mean, or be shorthand for? To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When a removal of uncertainty would cause too much uncertainty</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/01/taxation/when-a-removal-of-uncertainty-would-cause-too-much-uncertainty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/01/taxation/when-a-removal-of-uncertainty-would-cause-too-much-uncertainty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Sabl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rhetoric and Framing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=16345</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Businesses and wealthy individuals have gotten used to using "uncertainty" to mean "higher taxes on me."  But when taxes are to increase precisely because uncertainty is removed, the label gets risible.]]></description>
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		<title>Needed: Painful grand compromise in Illinois</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/01/policy-analysis/needed-painful-grand-compromise-in-illinois/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/01/policy-analysis/needed-painful-grand-compromise-in-illinois/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 06:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harold Pollack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=16228</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For every dollar I pay in federal income tax, I pay only $0.13 to Illinois. That's just not enough.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>National ethanol intoxication stays at DWI levels for another year at least</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/12/taxation/national-ethanol-intoxication-stays-at-dwi-levels-for-another-year-at-least/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/12/taxation/national-ethanol-intoxication-stays-at-dwi-levels-for-another-year-at-least/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 06:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2011 Democratic Agenda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biofuels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=15779</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bob Dineen, chief flack for the US biofuels industry, is delighted with the extension of the ethanol and biodiesel tax credits that ex-Illinois senator Obama didn&#8217;t filter out of the tax compromise.  No, the Brazilians aren&#8217;t going to be relieved of the import duty that&#8217;s preventing us from using the one biofuel (their sugar cane [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Holes in the Ground on Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/12/economics/holes-in-the-ground-on-wall-street/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/12/economics/holes-in-the-ground-on-wall-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wimberley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections 2010 and 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=15593</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A more sympathetic take on the tax deal.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>President Obama: I love you, but you need to raise your game</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/11/barack-obama/president-obama-i-love-you-but-you-need-to-raise-your-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/11/barack-obama/president-obama-i-love-you-but-you-need-to-raise-your-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harold Pollack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=14994</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The apparent cave in on Bush tax cuts for the wealthy is the most depressing episode of the Obama presidency.]]></description>
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		<title>Meg Whitman correction</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/10/lying-in-politics/meg-whitman-tax-evader-stole-from-her-maid-and-from-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/10/lying-in-politics/meg-whitman-tax-evader-stole-from-her-maid-and-from-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 02:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lying in politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=14123</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry, readers, and sorry Ms. Whitman: the post previously in this space jumped the gun .  The SSA letter Allred released apparently responds to a W-2, which implies taxes were paid on Diaz&#8217; salary. My bad.]]></description>
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		<title>Itemized receipt for the civilized society</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/09/taxation/itemized-receipt-for-the-civilized-society/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/09/taxation/itemized-receipt-for-the-civilized-society/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Sabl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rhetoric and Framing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=14103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Third Way's brilliant idea: sending taxpayers a receipt for what they've bought.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>Paying for what you use up</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/09/economics/paying-for-what-you-use-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/09/economics/paying-for-what-you-use-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 04:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=14011</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Among the standard bleats of those who want [to be heard asking for] less taxes on everyone,  and want to actually have less taxes on on the bleater personally, is a sort of pugnacious Babbitty claim that &#8220;I earned my money by my own efforts and when the government takes it from me it&#8217;s theft.&#8221;  [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>74</slash:comments>
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		<title>Self-fulfilling Prophecy Department: The Democratic &#8220;Punt&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/09/politics-and-leadership/self-fulfilling-prophecy-department-the-democratic-punt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/09/politics-and-leadership/self-fulfilling-prophecy-department-the-democratic-punt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats in Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watching Conservatives]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=13911</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On the tax cuts, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid made the best of bad situation; blaming them for caving risks creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hey Governor Quinn: Raise my taxes already</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/09/taxation/hey-governor-quinn-raise-my-taxes-already/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/09/taxation/hey-governor-quinn-raise-my-taxes-already/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harold Pollack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=13789</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People like me should pay higher state income taxes in Illinois.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Brad Delong, rocket scientist</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/09/economics/brad-delong-rocket-scientist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/09/economics/brad-delong-rocket-scientist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 01:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Income distribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=13727</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Prof. Henderson&#8217;s judgment continues to fail him, and he apparently went up against Brad Delong, something the really smart and really wise and really well-informed do with great caution. Who was it that rush in where angels fear to tread, again?  Remember the Black Knight in Monty Python&#8217;s Holy Grail? Brad attached a rocket engine [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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