Stephen King gets it

I’ve talked about taxes in my Ramblings before. But of course I’m a middle class guy. It’s easy to say “soak the rich” when you’re not. And Warren Buffet, well, he’s so rich that money stops meaning anything. But in …

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A quick thought as I begin to organize my tax information

I really don’t care how right wing Republican apologists try to spin it: I find it absolutely disgusting that Mitt Romney earns more in two days than I do in a year, and yet he pays a lower tax rate …

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Completely unsustainable

One of the richest human beings in the world, Warren Buffet, wrote an editorial for the New York Times titled Stop Coddling the Super-Rich. In it he writes: Last year my federal tax bill … what I paid was only …

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Meet the new tax law…same as the old law…

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The bubble chart above is from the money.cnn.com article Tax Cut Deal: How It Affects You which goes into how this new bill (to be signed into law today) breaks down. So what have we learned from this new bill? …

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