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Fort Lee Is More Than A Speed Bump On Governor Christie’s Presidential Road

Fort Lee Is More Than A Speed Bump On Governor Christie’s Presidential Road

The book that really inflamed Northern anti-slavery consciousness was Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.  Stowe based her work on the non-fiction American Slavery As It Is.  That work was assembled from primary sources including newspapers from across the South, by Theodore Weld, his wife Angelina Grimke, and her sister Sarah Grimke. They were living in Fort Lee, NJ at the time. Here is a simulated interview with Angelina Grimke.

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Tax Court decisions to illustrate the hazards of post-marital tax entanglement are numerous, but the most recent is something of a standout.   I should mention at the outset that the Tax Court believed the version of events laid out by Anthony W Roberts.  His ex-spouse had a different version, which the Tax Court did not believe

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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.