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MARKETPLACE FAIRNESS ACT: Senate approves online sales tax bill – The Hill’s Floor Action
By MB Snow at May 6, 2013 | 4:54 pm
By Bernie Becker and Ramsey Cox - 05/06/13 06:59 PM ET The Senate on Monday approved legislation that would for the first time allow states to collect billions of dollars in online sales tax revenue from out-of-state purchases. The 69-27 vote is a major victory for retail groups and state governments, who for years have fought to close what they see as a loophole ... Go To Article
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GREEN ENERGY: Despite sequester, DOD signs contract for $59/gallon green jet fuel | WashEx
By MB Snow at May 5, 2013 | 9:39 am
May 2, 2013 , Joel Gehrke Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recently warned that sequestration would cause “suspension of important activities, curtailed training, and could result in furloughs of civilian personnel” but the spending cuts haven’t killed the green fuels program, as the Pentagon has continued purchasing renewable fuel at $59 per gallon. “In ... Go To Article
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BIG GOVERNMENT: When Will America Burst D.C.’s Bubble? | RealClearPolitics
By MB Snow at May 5, 2013 | 9:03 am
By Salena Zito - May 5, 2013 WASHINGTON--Eighteen Starbucks shops can be found in the three-mile walk from DuPont Circle to the U.S. Capitol. Not one of them had a line less than seven people deep on a recent Wednesday afternoon. Twenty-one construction sites filled with workers on girders and cranes towering over whole city blocks can be found on the same ... Go To Article
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CALIFORNIA TAX REVENUE yields multibillion-dollar surplus – latimes
By MB Snow at May 3, 2013 | 1:25 am
By Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, May 2, 2013, 7:30 p.m. SACRAMENTO — California has been flooded with revenue this tax season and is on track to finish the fiscal year with a surplus of billions of dollars, according to officials. State coffers contain about $4.5 billion more than expected in personal income tax payments. Nearly $2.8 billion of it arrived ... Go To Article
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ECONOMY: Flood of new regulations made Obama’s first term costliest in history | WashingtonExaminer.com
By MB Snow at May 3, 2013 | 12:30 am
May 2, 2013 | 5:51 pm A torrent of regulations enacted over the last four years make President Obama’s the most expensive first term in history, with $70 billion in new annual regulatory costs, according to a study released Wednesday by the Heritage Foundation. The Obama administration passed 131 major new rules in those four years, and has hundreds more in the ... Go To Article
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AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM : Obamacare’s Tax Hike Train Wreck
By MB Snow at April 30, 2013 | 3:10 pm
The most destructive Obamacare tax increases are just around the bend Asked about Senator Max Baucus’s recent “train wreck” comments, President Obama today said, “A huge chunk of it [Obamacare] has already been implemented.” Unmentioned was the wave of destructive Obamacare tax increases that will begin to hit Americans during the 2014 tax filing season and ... Go To Article
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U.S. ECONOMY: Krugman’s Story – TheNewYorkSun
By MB Snow at April 30, 2013 | 12:15 am
The above is but one of many warnings against “austerity” turned up by a machine called the Ironotron, a hand-operated contraption we keep around the offices of the Sun. It turns up ironical mentions in editorials of an earlier time. In this case we fed into the Ironotron Paul Krugman’s latest column denouncing “austerity,” and out spewed a trove of editorials ... Go To Article
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JOHN STOSSEL: A Post-Post Office World | HumanEvents
By MB Snow at April 22, 2013 | 9:30 am
By: John Stossel, 4/22/2013 11:20 AM Even parts of government that look like a business never get run with the efficiency of a business. Just look at the post office. They buy commercials and tout their services the way private businesses do. They offer a service that customers want. But a real business can’t get away with losing billions every year. (I guess ... Go To Article
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FOREIGN AID:: Your Tax Dollars at Work: Subsidizing the Security of Wealthy Allies | Cato Institute
By MB Snow at April 18, 2013 | 9:44 am
By CHRISTOPHER A. PREBLE -- It’s Tax Day, and for millions of Americans that means ponying up to the IRS. The federal government does many things these days—most of which would be more efficiently carried out at the local level, or in the private sector. But Uncle Sam also engages in a particular form of charity that many Americans overlook: spending many tens of ... Go To Article
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YOUR MONEY: Where did the stimulus money go? | OrangeCountyRegister
By MB Snow at March 28, 2013 | 12:20 am
By RON HART, March 27, 2013 "Republicans are job creationists. We know the rich create jobs. Democrats believe that jobs just EVOLVE from millions of years of stimulus packages." – Daily Show Senior Debt Correspondent Wyatt Cenac Remember when Obama got his trillion-odd dollars of "stimulus money" which he and the Democrats breathlessly said we needed for "shovel ... Go To Article
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