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Apr 18, 2012 WSJ By STEPHEN MOORE While the Senate voted this week on the Buffett Rule millionaire tax hike, House Republicans were pushing for a 20% business tax cut. The GOP House leadership plan cuts tax rates for every business with fewer than 500 employees. This means the highest personal income tax rate applied [...]
By Ziad Abdelnour Published April 17, 2012 FoxNews.com To most American citizens that the U.S. Tax Code has become a truncheon used to beat the American people into lockstep by an increasingly truculent political class. The actual legislative code is more than four times the length of the Christian Bible and is full of incomprehensible [...]
By Jim Angle Published April 18, 2012 FoxNews.com As many Americans were scrambling to get this year’s taxes done, analysts were warning about a bigger tax day — what some call a tax Armageddon, or “Taxmageddon,” to characterize its potential effect on the U.S. economy. At the end of the year, some $500 billion in [...]
By the CNN Wire Staff updated 6:29 AM EDT, Wed April 18, 2012 (CNN) — A Michigan woman who won a million-dollar lottery but continued to receive welfare benefits is now charged with fraud, the attorney general said Tuesday. Amanda Clayton, 25, collected thousands of dollars in state assistance for months after she won [...]
Americans know that politicians are getting elected by promising to tax only the rich and then going after the middle class. Apr 16, 2012 WSJ By GROVER G. NORQUIST In his 1984 acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, Walter Mondale announced that if elected president he would raise taxes. He lost the electoral college [...]
Democrats push to make system more expensive and complicated By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Monday, April 16, 2012 Americans who thought Tax Day was bad this year could find it far worse next year. Tuesday happens to be Tax Freedom Day, the date by which taxpayers have earned enough to pay off Uncle [...]
Published April 17, 2012 FoxNews.com Senate Republicans blocked President Obama’s so-called “Buffett Rule,” as the proposed minimum tax rate for millionaires failed to advance in a procedural vote Monday. The measure received majority support, 51-45, but 60 votes were required for the legislation to advance. The anti-climactic outcome was no surprise to anyone in a [...]
Ap16, 2012 A year ago, in Action Comics, Superman declared plans to renounce his U.S. citizenship. “‘Truth, justice, and the American way’ — it’s not enough anymore,” the comic book superhero said, after both the Iranian and American governments criticized him for joining a peaceful anti-government protest in Tehran. Last year, almost 1,800 people followed [...]
Taxpayers deserve the same defense from IRS penalties as Tim Geithner. Apr 15, 2012 WSJ By RODNEY P. MOCK And NANCY E. SHURTZ This year more than three-fourths of all individual tax returns will be filed electronically, and a growing number will come from people who used tax-preparation software. As modern and efficient as this [...]
Apr 16, 2012 – Star Parker You have got to give credit where credit is due. President Barack Obama has laid out the core message of his re-election campaign. It is a message whose claims are blatantly false and whose point is irrelevant to what is of greatest concern to Americans today. Despite this, there [...]

