Much is being made of poor Greece being bullied by the EU (or Germany as it is known). The historic fact is that Greece, until the time of the romantic Lord Byron, was a dusty Turkish province where nothing happened without a bribe, and refusal to pay tax was a sign of manhood. (Thanks for …
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IRS data show that in 2009 none of the 400 richest US taxpayers, measured by adjusted gross income, paid more than 35 percent in average taxes. Forty percent paid between 25 and 35 percent, and half paid less than 20 percent. Famously, Warren Buffett disclosed that his percentage of tax paid was less than that …
A reader has written to say that while he agrees that rich Americans should pay more tax, they are already paying a lot and the American middle classes also ought to pay more. What are the facts? The reader points to a Tax Foundation report showing that the income tax contribution of the richest decile …
Outgoing Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, says he’s concerned about retaining qualified U.S. military service members amid the “stress and strain” of more than 13 years of continuous warfare in Afghanistan and Iraq. In one of his last interviews in the job he’s held since February 2013, Hagel refers to the “hidden consequences” of “nonstop …
From Chief Z. Z. Lawless, Mumsdorf Police Dept, Mumsdorf To: “Gifts for Good Guys”, c/o The Pentagon “My men and I sincerely appreciated the overnight railway-flatcar delivery of the CX-B Annihilator Halftrack Urban Ambassador, which is already earning its keep. Thanks to its jumbo rubber shells and its six-hundred-per-second firing capacity, those local mums are …
