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Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
After much hand-wringing, doomsdaying and speculation, Mayor Daley and his administration finally laid out how serious the city's budget deficit is. The city's 2009 budget has a $420 million gap and the mayor is saying nothing, except an increase in real estate taxes, is out of the question. That includes as many as 1,800 layoffs. "We’re not gonna speculate on the number of layoffs or if they are...
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Blue Hampshire (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Does he think that them thar farmer folk are a bunch of red-neck rubes? Sununu introduced himself as an engineer who had worked in small business and who had focused on paring down federal taxes and regulation. In particular, he railed on the estate tax, dubbed the "death tax," which he said put pressure on farmers to sell to developers. I always love it when protectors of the rich try to scare farmers...
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BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
25 Reasons You May be a Racist 1.If you think Obama's the most liberal member of the senate you...may be a racist. 2.If you object to Obama raising your payroll, capital gains and estate taxes you...may be a racist. 3.If you'd [...]
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MauledAgain (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Last week, in Why This New Tax Provision? , I asked why Congress had complicated the Internal Revenue Code, tax return filing, tax forms, instructions, and the tax law by adding a new above-the-line deduction for a small portion of real estate taxes, and invited the member of Congress who inserted the provision into the legislation to educate me on what transpired during the legislative process with...
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Asiaing.com (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
A quarterly magazine covering economic issues with style and substance. Regional Review features in-depth articles on topics such as immigration, credit card debt, the estate tax, and the future of New England's fishing industry. Opinion pieces, book reviews, economic analyses, and reports from cities and towns in the region are also featured. We make economics interesting.
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post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
As the Rooney family prepares to meet with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to discuss a possible ownership change in the Steelers, the federal estate tax may turn out to be the least important factor affecting the team's future, tax experts and some family members say.
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NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Even Mayor Bloomberg, possibly the richest man in the city, felt the sting of higher costs for household help and real estate taxes last year, according to his 2007 tax returns released Friday.
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3arabawy (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Rizq William, one of the real estate tax strikers, and a professional photographer, snapping photos while bellydancing on top of a chair during Islam’s wedding…
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Brutally Honest (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Thank you Obama... Thank you Barack-ists. Thank you: 1.If you think Obama's the most liberal member of the senate you...may be a racist. 2.If you object to Obama raising your payroll, capital gains and estate taxes you...may be a racist....
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Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Carmina Y. D'Aversa (estate tax attorney with the International Estate Tax Group of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, D.C.) has published her book entitled Tax, Estate, and Lifetime Planning for Minors. Here is a description of her book: Numerous...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
In what appears to be an unprecedented move, the Middleborough assessors' office this fall will tax sheds in the town's three mobile home parks. Because they arrive on wheels, mobile homes are classified as vehicles and are exempt from real estate taxes. Owners instead pay excise tax, which totals a mere $144 per year. Assessor Barbara Erickson said her board ...
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Anti-Strib (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
1.If you think Obama's the most liberal member of the senate you...may be a racist. 2.If you object to Obama raising your payroll, capital gains and estate taxes you...may be a racist. 3.If you'd prefer a president have at least some foreign policy experience you...may be a racist. 4. If you're in favor of drilling for oil and building nuclear power plants you...may be a racist. 5. If you think "Vero...
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Main St. USA (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
John McCain's recent television ad compared Barack Obama to Paris Hilton, as an empty-headed celebrity. This must have made Ms. Hilton mad, so even though her parents are McCain contributors and McCain supports eliminating the estate tax so she can keep all her family's money, she made this ad mocking the Senator: See Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad and more funny videos on FunnyOrDie.com See more...
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CNNMoney.com (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
For a tax that each year affects only a few hundred of the nation's 27 million small companies, the estate tax manages to scare an outsize number of entrepreneurs: In a July Zogby poll of small-business owners, nearly half said they believe they will be affected by the fee critics call "the death tax."
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Florida's sagging economy will push state government back into the red this month and force Gov. Charlie Crist to either further cut spending or tap deeper into the state's reserves. Florida's sales and real-estate tax revenues have continued to plummet...
