Pete Sepp
Pete Sepp
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No spending reduction is easy, otherwise they would have been done a long time ago.
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We would view this as a missed opportunity to have a wider debate on the wisdom of these restrictions that are driving up costs for taxpayers.
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What homeowners often don't know or realize is that this process is a subjective one. Essentially, your assessment is one person's opinion about the value of your house.
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Republicans are spending at a rate not seen since Lyndon Johnson's presidency, ... They're legislating as if deficits don't matter.
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People have a right to be concerned. If a private firm calls about collecting debts, a taxpayer should check with the IRS first before giving out any personal information or making payments.
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The Alternative Minimum Tax represents the single biggest threat to the wallets of tens of millions of middle-class taxpayers in 2006, yet Congress could not even agree to extend temporary safeguards from this stealth tax for another year.
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That would be one of the most radical departures in tax history, It could start us down a very dangerous path.
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You can determine whether you have a case in the space of an afternoon. Your chances for success are pretty good.
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I'm sure that state and local officials, given enough time, will come up with a sky-is-falling study saying that if they're not allowed to tax this, they'll lose a trillion dollars a year.
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An LCD TV or a plasma TV might be a nice thing to have, but there are plenty of high-resolution televisions you can get for under $1, 000.
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Drivers already pay roughly $30 billion a year in federal gasoline taxes; that ought to be enough to at least give them a decent federal Interstate highway system with maintenance costs.
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This is the perfect opportunity for Congress to demonstrate its newfound, post-Katrina concern to keep the deficit in check.
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It was felt that there had to be inducements
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Is the money really necessary to fund some of these projects, and is the money really going to communities in need? On both scores, the answer is often no. Thirty years and $100 billion is enough of a test to say this program is a disaster. Pull the plug.