Taxes

How are your hard earned tax dollars being spent to win this war? Right now you are paying for 33 housing programs administered by four different cabinet departments including, are you sitting down, the Department of Energy.

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This is the first time, in the recorded history of the Supreme Court, that imposing a penalty for violation of federal law is, in fact, a tax.

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How is it possible for people to be so emotional about a law they know absolutely nothing about? I can’t find a single source that defines what’s covered and/or not covered by the Affordable Care Act.

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Your business is not too big to fail; it’s too small to save.

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Currently we are getting about $1.75 in tax dollars back from Uncle Sam for every dollar we send in. It would sure be nice to reverse those numbers.

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"It’s official; student loan debt exceeds debt owed on credit cards for the first time in history. If they have not already passed it, student loans will top $1 Trillion dollars soon. In addition, nearly $100 billion, or 10% of those, are delinquent."

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So how did Jennie-O do? Surely, with $5 million plus to spend that must have created a boatload of jobs. Well, they have spent the money and reported the jobs created — sort of. See if you can understand their description of the resulting jobs.

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In the 1960’s President Lynden Johnson came up with the idea, for what he called, “The Great Society.” It was partially modeled after John Kennedy’s “New Frontier” program that stalled

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The Fair Tax is almost as complicated as the current progressive income tax we all know and love. And like the other tax possibilities we’ve looked at, there are pros and cons to this one as well

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Almost every year some TV station will take a typical tax return to about 20 tax preparers and they get 20 final results — all different. If trained tax preparers can’t get it right what chance does the average citizen have in filing an accurate tax return?

Other than accountants, and perhaps even some of them, you are not going to find many people who are happy with the current tax code

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