Posts Tagged ‘ taxes ’

Class Warfare

19/09/2011
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I have written about "class warfare" and the misuse of this term by the American Conservatives quite a bit in the past. The issue reared its head up again over the current economic debates in Washington recently. Yesterday, Paul Ryan stated: Class warfare may make for good politics, but it makes for rotten...

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Police Shoot Unarmed Man, Again

20/08/2011
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I ran across another article of a police officer shooting an unarmed man. It was in Georgia. Sadly, this is not really "news" anymore. It is more of a regular occurrence. The point of this entry is not to rail against police, though. On August 11, 2011, BART (Bay Area Rapid...

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Fair tax rates and Lots of maths

16/08/2011
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William has a job. He makes $15 an hour and works 40 hours a week. Sometimes he gets 5 hours overtime in a week. That is a gross income of $600 a week, before overtime. He makes time and a half for overtime. In a week he works overtime,...

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Drowning You To Save You

29/07/2011
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I went on a long tirade last night about my problem with this debt ceiling debate. I was reading a few articles on the debate today and then reading the comments. This is still bullshit. The arguments of the Right are so invalid today, I cannot even believe we give them...

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Exasperation

14/06/2011
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A Remarkable Book from Wiley-Finance "An excellent book!"   — Paul Wilmott Want to break into the lucrative world of trading and quantitative finance? You need this book! There is this thing that parents go through.  Children often want to attempt to do something because of what they believe to be the intended results from...

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