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10.29.2008 12:05 pm

Taxing the poor in Missouri and Illinois

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Anti-poverty programs stir up controversy now and then.  Why, then, does no one get stirred up over the pro-poverty policies of states including Missouri and Illinois? These states tax the poor, making their poverty worse.

Of course, poor people have always…

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08.14.2008 9:00 pm

Friday’s editorial: Ducking the IRS

ask_ap_opt.jpgIn 2005, corporate America turned a $1.6 trillion profit. Even by Sinatra standards, it was a very good year. Why, then, did 25 percent of large American corporations pay no income tax — zero — that year?
Taxpaying Americans — scraping to…

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04.01.2008 9:01 pm

Wednesday editorial

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

Here’s an advance look at one of the editorials that will appear in Wednesday’s Post-Dispatch and online at STLtoday.com/news/editorials.

NO GREAT ALTERNATIVES

As they bounce over the potholes and stew in the traffic backups, Illinoisans feel the need for a new state…

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