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The Menu of Delayed Pain – Are You Hungry?

August 21, 2008 History & Money

Recent commentary on investment taxes got me thinking. If you have about a minute and a half, consider listening to this blip from American Public Media’s Marketplace on the dividend and capital gains tax rate and what the presidential candidates want to do with them.

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What is the National Debt?

August 6, 2008 national debt

What is the national debt? How did we get so much of it? And how does it affect you and me? Learn why our current fundamental level of interaction with our government and our government’s interaction with the rest of the world is not on a sustainable path.

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Gas Prices

April 7, 2008 History & Money

When gas prices were really low no-one cared that the government taxed as much as it could. The government capitalized on the fact that people didn’t complain, and took as much tax revenue as governmentally possible. Now that prices are high, and the oil companies are getting the blame, it only seems fair to show both sides. Yes, the oil companies make a lot of money and do have influence on the rising price of gas, but the government is responsible for a lot of the cost as wel

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