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When the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 goes into effect on April 1, 2009, the tax on tobacco products will increase - on some products more than 2000%.  However, The Maricopa County Tobacco Use Prevention Progra

Letters to the Editor • Global
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Reuters

Switzerland, Austria and Luxembourg offered to relax strict bank secrecy in a response to a global crackdown on tax havens that is rattling the offshore banking industry. They made the concessions ahead of a G20 meeting of finance ministers

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Michael Shedlock / Mish

The misguided policy response from Washington has focused almost exclusively on squandering public money and burdening our children with indebtedness in order to defend the bondholders of mismanaged financial institutions (blame Paulson and Geithner

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Reuters

Offshore financial centers which have thrived under a veil of bank secrecy will have to embrace transparency to survive a global crackdown on tax cheats that is menacing the private banking sector in Switzerland and beyond. A US tax fraud probe into

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AP

"If government fails to find a new way to raise money, we will suffer grim consequences in the future: unimaginable levels of congestion, reduced safety, costlier goods and services, an eroded quality of life, and diminished economic competitive

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Daily Leader, Pontiac IL

I imagine it's hard to write an article about this without a lot of clever, gaseous puns. But the trial balloons are up, and in the name of Global Warming you shall be taxed (please put jokes/puns in comment section!)

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NY Times

Americans have made it clear that they want a certain kind of government, one that can field a strong military and also maintain popular programs like Medicare. Yet we are not paying nearly enough taxes to maintain those programs.

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Reuters

The settlement was backed by the Swiss government, but experts said it opened cracks in Switzerland's treasured bank secrecy laws, and UBS is still facing a civil case in which U.S. authorities are seeking access to the names of another 52,000 cl

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NY Times

In the hush-hush world of Swiss banking, the unthinkable is happening: secrets are spilling into the open. UBS, the largest bank in Switzerland, agreed on Wednesday to divulge the names of well-heeled Americans whom the authorities suspect of using o

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The Price of Liberty

The bottom line is this: there is no constitutional duty placed on the American people to pay federal income taxes or a 23 % national sales tax to fund programs not authorized by the Constitution. Period end of story!

News Link • Global Reported By Bob Greenslade
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Reuters

Swiss bank Credit Suisse is taking steps to change its relationship with US clients in view of new, stricter rules on the taxation of US residents' assets abroad. Credit Suisse is asking US clients to sign form W9 to reveal them to US authorities

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Youtube

Jan Helfeld interviews Senator Harry Reid about government coercion. Reid maintains that taxation is voluntary despite all evidence to the contrary.

News Link • Global Reported By Ken Demyen
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LewRockwell.com

With taxation high in the US to support the largest military budget in the world, that Martin van Creveld demonstrated in 1990 to be obsolete, Islamic nations could draw off the most productive citizens simply by maintaining their opposition to incom

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AP

President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a bill extending health coverage to 4 million uninsured children, a move he called a first step toward fulfilling a campaign pledge to provide insurance for all Americans.

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