washingtonmonthly.com - 4/6/2009
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Estate Tax Idiocy As Steve noted earlier, the Senate voted Thursday to eliminate the estate tax for estates worth less than $5 million, or $10 million for couples (estates worth less than $3.5 million, or $7 million for couples, are...
prospect.org - 4/3/2009
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prospect.org —
Ben Nelson genuinely is a conservative Democrat. The
Poole-Rosenthal rankings -- which most consider the leading measure...
of a congressman's relative ideology -- have, for years, ranked Nelson as the most conservative member of the Congress. Call him ...
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THE STRANGE CASE OF EVAN BAYH.
taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org - 4/8/2009
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taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org —
As taxvox blogmeister, Howard Gleckman, noted last week,
the estate tax is once again in play in...
Congress. TPC has updated our estate tax estimates to reflect the latest CBO projections and IRS data. The main factor driving the revisions ...
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Estate Tax Update
confederateyankee.mu.nu - 4/2/2009
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confederateyankee.mu.nu —
Fox News posted the following highly-misleading graphic on
the front page of foxnews.com tonight, as the click-through...
image for a story entitled Clinton: U.S. Shares Blame in Mexico Drug Wars. The obvious implication of the image, echoing recent ...
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Complicity in Idiocy
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... Hilzoy has a way with words. And sometimes she nails complex ideas concisely, clearly, and incredibly to the point. I think this could be a manifesto of sorts for much of the center-left in this country: ...
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