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67Oak Hills Idea Merits a Thumbs Up
Property owners are rightfully enthusiastic about protecting the biggest financial investment of their lives whenever it's threatened, but in 1999, they may have been looking so hard at the trees they didn't see the forest when golf course improvements were proposed.
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81A Flat Tax? Yes, But on Net Worth
Poor folk don't give the rich and powerful their due. We just kind o' keep making excuses for 'em, always thinking they must o' meant well, but they just can't get the square pegs in the round holes. We need a flat tax on net worth, not on income.
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76True Charity: Selfless, Not Self-serving
Charity should be selfless, not self-serving. The wealthy, too often, use charities for something other than soliciting their thanks. Asise from tax breaks, the big givers, especially, reap large rewards, both financially and socially.
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72Welcome Home Stew!
The entrepreneur whose business prowess was world acclaimed after his unmatched success in the dairy business bearing his name is out of prison after serving 44 months on a tax-fraud conviction. Stew Leonard Sr. has paid his debt to society.
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71Bouquets, Brickbats, Ramblings
A large bouquet goes to all the charitable organizations that donate their time and energy to give the homeless a helping hand. At the same time, a brickbat goes to those childless citizens who balk at paying their share of taxes to fund our schools.
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64George Orwell Revisited
Big Brother seems to be breathing down my neck. I'm probably more paranoid than the next guy, but "1984" and George Orwell had it right. The police, the state of Connecticut and the IRS are all watching me -- and you!
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68Congress: Keep a Lid on the IRS
Even in America it's a little scary to say anything critical of the dreaded IRS, a federal agency commonly known as the Internal Revenue Service. But I've done it before, and here I do it again. As of now, somehow, I'm still a free man.
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65Can Anyone Answer My Cry for Help?
When Christie Whitman pledged to cut taxes by as much as 30 percent, I was instantly struck by such blatant demagoguery; it should have been crystal clear that she was simply playing off Gov. Jim Florio's huge, unpopular 1990 tax increase.
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67Slash Taxes for Me, You ... Us?
Sometimes it's not easy to separate politics from the politician, good rhetoric from good policy, the wheat from the chaff. Republicans want big tax cuts. Democrats want big tax cuts. Most Americans want big tax cuts. Great! So what's the problem?
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67Things That Rub Me the Wrong Way
As we wend our way through the trials and tribulations of daily living, all of us, I suppose, come across annoyances -- great and small -- that rile us, almost on a daily basis. Here I offer a couple of mine.
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