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Michael Barone - April 11, 2007
With news that the charges against the Duke lacrosse players will be dropped, bloggers LaShawn Barber and K.C.
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Let's Hear It for the AMT
Michael Barone - February 7, 2007
Ruth Marcus has a good column in today's Washington Post on the alternative minimum tax, which she calls "Bush's stealth tax increase." It's accompanied, in the print edition and online, with a table that shows the percentage of tax cuts taken back by the AMT.
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Congressional Districts and Taxes–Who Pays the Most and Least?
Michael Barone - February 5, 2007
Here's a fascinating item from the Tax Foundation, which has calculated the average rate of income tax paid in each congressional district and county. Of the top 10 congressional districts, five have Democratic congressmen and five Republican.
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Economic Freedom
Michael Barone - January 16, 2007
The Index of Economic Freedom for 2007, sponsored by the Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation, is out. Here is Mary Anastasia O'Grady's article in the Journal on it, and here is the Heritage website entry, the data, and the rankings.
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My Latest
Michael Barone - January 8, 2007
Here is my Creators Syndicate column for this week, and here in the Weekly Standard is my remembrance of the late Seymour Martin Lipset..
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The Romance of an IRS Audit
Small Biz Scene - November 15, 2006
In the new movie Stranger Than Fiction, Will Ferrell plays Harold Crick, an Internal Revenue Service auditor who becomes attracted to a bakery owner he's auditing. I haven't seen it, but the possibility of romance between an auditor and a small-business owner seems about as far-fetched as the movie's premise that Crick's life is being dictated by a novelist afflicted with writer's block.
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