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Taxation Without Representation: Setting the Stage for Independence

4 July 2011

Today, kids will decorate wagons with streamers and drag them down small town streets while big marching bands play John Philip Sousa tunes. There will be floats and beauty queens with big smiles (and even bigger hair). Smells from cookouts and barbecues will fill neighborhoods as folks fire up the grill to make hotdogs, hamburgers [...]

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Singapore Government Offers Email for Tax, Other Bills

19 June 2010

One of the biggest criticisms of most governments is that they are inefficient. It’s not usual for tax returns and other correspondence to get bogged down in bad or incomplete addresses, insufficient postage or processing issues. Singapore hopes to change all of that. The government is giving all citizens, foreign residents and businesses an email [...]

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Who Is the “Government” Anyway?

19 September 2008

In light of the recent government bailouts of several high profile companies, some pundits are rushing to attempt to correct the idea that taxpayers are paying the tab. Some analysts are trying to push the idea that the billion dollars’ worth of bailouts are merely structured as loans or investments by “the government” and thus [...]

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Million Dollar Baby

19 October 2007

Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent Fumo has lately found himself in a whole heap of trouble. He is facing a whopping 139 indictments including 2 counts each of filing false tax returns and aiding and assisting in the filing of false tax returns. To pay for some of his massive legal bills in conjunction with the [...]

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