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  • Conquering the Private Sector

    12/27/2011 3:09:01 PM PST · by Edmunds mom · 1 replies
    PhilanthropyDaily.com ^ | 12/21/2011 | Scott Walter
    this wonderfully creative civilization which we have produced in North America and Western Europe is going to come to an end . . . through the slow but steady conquest of the private sector by the public sector.
  • Twenty Percent, Yes. Twenty-Five Percent, No

    09/22/2011 9:39:14 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 3 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | September 22, 2011 | Emmett Tyrrell
    WASHINGTON -- It is clear from the way President Barack Obama has been talking about the federal budget recently, and about taxation since he came to office, that all the money that Americans earn belongs to the federal government. The key words in this conversation are "tax expenditures." Obama has lost a lot in tax expenditures, and he wants more of those tax expenditures back. He can spend that money, he believes, more wisely than the citizenry -- that is to say, you and me. He has wiggled and wobbled on the nation's finances over the years. First, he spent...
  • NEW ANALYSIS SHOWS “TAX EXPENDITURES” OVERALL ARE COSTLY AND REGRESSIVE

    02/25/2009 12:47:21 PM PST · by Munz · 13 replies · 676+ views
    Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ^ | February 23, 2009 | Chye-Ching Huang and Hannah Shaw
    “Tax expenditures” for individuals totaled about $760.5 billion in 2007, topping what the federal government spent on either national defense or all non-defense discretionary programs, a new analysis by the Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center (TPC) shows.[1] In most cases, these tax expenditures are also regressive — that is, they benefit high-income taxpayers the most. In light of their high cost and regressive nature, they should be “on the table” when efforts to address the nation’s long-term budget problems are mounted.