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Dave Keys • 2010

Posts Tagged 'tax'

Silence The Poor

A good conclusion to this Washington Examiner story might be that the city is simply finding creative ways to tax without representation, but the pragmatic effect is more Machiavellian. The poor are silenced. Those who can’t or won’t pony up $300 to the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, have to shut down their blogs? How [...]

23 August 2010 at 10:56 - Comments

Putting The Pork In Perspective

You’ll have heard that the government’s military spending bill includes $4 BN in earmark pork projects according to the 12/23/09 WSJ, but just to put it in perspective. The same source cites, Credit-card issuers collected $22.9 billion in penalty fees—such as those assessed for late payments—in 2009 WSJ The same article says the banks are [...]

5 January 2010 at 15:45 - Comments