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Funt: Fees, fines and fairness
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Which best describes your view of America? Everyone pays an equal share? Or, everyone pays his fair share? Both sound reasonable. One hinges on equality, the other on fairness – two principles we generally embrace. But as I wrote in The New York Times the other day, we are increasingly becoming a nation of haves…
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Hudson: How public servants came to be viewed as coddled bureaucrats
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I was discharged from the U.S. Navy in July of 1970. After picking up a new Toyota Land Cruiser for $4,100 (a deal made possible through a purchase program available only to returning troops), my wife and I drove coast to coast with our two month old son, Byron, in a crib that slid neatly…
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How the Trump and Clinton tax plans would affect Americans
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For America’s wealthiest families, the presidential campaign presents a stark choice: A big tax increase if Hillary Clinton wins the election – or a big tax cut if Donald Trump wins. For everyone else? Right now, neither candidate is proposing major tax changes. Tax policy is one of the issues on which the two nominees…
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Fact Check: Trump on the economy
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EDITOR’S NOTE – A look at the veracity of claims by political figures A look at some of his claims and how they compare with the facts: TRUMP: “She said she wanted to raise taxes on the middle class.” THE FACTS: If Clinton said that – and it’s debatable – it’s clear she didn’t mean…
