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08.19.2008 11:59 am

Corporate taxes: Backing opinion with facts

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Reference Editorial 8/15/2008, “Ducking the IRS”I found the piece on corporate America ducking tax responsibility hard to believe, so I randomly checked a few American companies income statements to see what I would find.  Here’s what I found for some…

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08.18.2008 4:42 pm

Candidates and their tax positions: How will it affect you?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It’s important for us to understand the differences between Obama & Mccain, here’s where they stand on taxes.

INCOME TAX MCCAIN (no changes)

  • Single making 30K - tax $4,500
  • Single making 50K - tax $12,500
  • Single making 75K - tax $18,750
  • Married making 60K-…
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08.14.2008 3:18 pm

Taking a closer look at those anti-Obama ads

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I have some issues with some of the anti-Obama ads the conservatives are running.

1. They’re calling Obama “arrogant. How can a conservative call Obama, or anyone, arrogant while supporting the most arrogant president in US history, a president so…

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08.13.2008 3:26 pm

Free markets, lower taxes, huge deficits make life exciting

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 President Bush’s reelection in 2004 proves that the majority of voters are unconcerned about lots of so-called “important” issues. For example, they do not care about their health. They do not want good jobs or fair wages. They do not…

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08.05.2008 3:18 pm

State shouldn’t demand losses from utilities

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I could not believe the Illinois Utility regulator from Chicago actually had the audacity to claim that Ameren’s profits in their Regulated division should pay for the losses to Illinois consumption a Deregulated or at least supposedly deregulated market.  It is this…

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08.01.2008 4:18 pm

Check before you vote (don’t take their word for it) to see how candidates on property taxes

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Reference St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Voters Guide”, covering the primary elections, August 1, 2008.  I read where Ms. Kathleen Kelly Burkett (D) is running again for St. Louis County Council Member 2nd District.  I was shocked at her ludicrous 3rd priority statement that…

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07.25.2008 5:58 pm

Truth should be required in presidential campaigns

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It is unfortunate that in this election season the political candidates are refraining from telling the truth to their constituencies.  For example, Mr. McCain says that “if you want to pay more taxes I am not your candidate.  It is…

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07.23.2008 5:28 pm

Stem cell opponents are trying to create controversy where none exists

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Opponents of Missouri’s Stem Cell Amendment are trying desperately to create controversy where none exists (“No public funding for stem cell research,” July 13). The life sciences (which include medical and plant research and biofuel development) are very important to…

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07.22.2008 5:21 pm

Taxpayers should not further burden themselves with money for Metro

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It’s the same people who get us into quarter-century ‘messes’ who then meet somewhere to try to get us out of these messes. It’s the same newspaper that lends legitimacy to the same ‘errors-makers’, especially when they want more public…

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