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Occupy Wall Street Anniversary Focuses On Robin Hood Tax

Why I find this interesting is because of the way it represents the battle for the populist high ground.  The Tea Party has made a comeback with its IRS scandal narrative and its last gasp against Obamacare.  There does not seem to be an equivalent on the Left.  The financial transactions tax might be promising in that regard, although I have to admit that my evidence for that is highly anecdotal.

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Does Tax Court Booster Decision Threaten Scouting?

Does Tax Court Booster Decision Threaten Scouting?

If we could go back in time and erase from history whoever first thought of financing charitable activities by having kids and their parents sell a variety of food items and other miscellany such as Christmas cards, the world would be a better place.  With one very large exception.  That would be Girl Scout Cookies – specifically Thin Mints

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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.