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TheTaxVox 2013 Lump Of Coal Award: Wait ‘Til Next Year Edition

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Tax Vox proudly announces its seventh annual Lump of Coal Award for the worst tax and fiscal policies of 2013. The year was a curious mix of really bad ideas and dithering. After all, Congress’s...
    






TheTaxVox 2013 Lump Of Coal Award: Wait ‘Til Next Year Edition

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Tax Vox proudly announces its seventh annual Lump of Coal Award for the worst tax and fiscal policies of 2013. The year was a curious mix of really bad ideas and dithering. After all, Congress’s...
    






Unions Get Big ObamaCare Christmas Present As Other Self-Insured Groups Get Scrooged

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As a presumed constitutional scholar, Barack Obama should know that while a president has authority to check the Legislative Branch by recommending legislation to be passed by Congress, or through...
    






Should Social Security Benefits Be More Generous?

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Senators Sherrod Brown (D.-Ohio) and Patrick J. Toomey (R.-Pa.) just held the first of a series of hearings asking experts how to improve retirement security, and their prescriptions are to expand...
    






Back Off: 12 Energy State Governors Tell Feds On Hydraulic Fracturing Regs

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Signaling concern that sweeping federal regulations could cripple companies using hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas from shale in their states, governors from 12 energy states signed an...
    






Senators Support President Obama’s Veto of ITC’s iPhone Ban

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A letter signed by several US senators was sent to the ITC trade representative as well as to President Obama. The ITC ban on certain older models of iPads and iPhones due to copyright infringement...