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Christina Cram

What Obamacare Will Do to Your Taxes - Forbes - 1 views

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    This article gives a good breif description of the new tax laws associated with Obamacare.
Alexandria Miles

Gay marriage: IRS says same-sex couples will receive equal tax benefits - 1 views

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    This article is about being able to file joint tax returns if married in a location that recognizes it as a marriage. However the IRS will not allow joint filing to civil unions or domestic partners.
Christina Cram

5 Issues Small Businesses will be Watching During the 2012 Election | Money Insight - 2 views

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    Small business owners comment on the tax bill, stating that they are roughly 1 million of the people that will feel the tax increase.
Laura Sutphen

Obamacare tax penalty is Unconstitutional - 0 views

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    This is a great summery of how the government cant just call obamacare a tax and make it legal. This explains how the government tryed to reword things but really they are just taking away our rights. 
Christina Cram

Healthcare Reform, New taxes fees and penalties - 0 views

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    This article discusses the additional taxes that the marrieds making over $250,000 a year and singles making over $200,000 will paying when the healthcare reform takes place.
Jodi Coffman

9 societal fixes for personal freedom - 0 views

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    This guy has some interesting ideas. Ending the war on drugs by legalizing drugs and taxing them for profit and allowing people to consume or not consume anything they choose seems a bit extreme. I do agree that a rebalance of taxes would benefit the hard working middle class families.
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    A really good article with a lot of good ideas. I especially liked the idea about fixing the infrastructure. I saw a special a few years ago talking about how the infrastructure was deteriorating and I can only imagine it's gotten worse.
adam ramos

Obesity: Individual Problem Demands Individual Responsibility - 0 views

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    This acticle is about exactly what the title says it is. The fact that legislators want to put extra taxs on things like fast food and extra large pants just because some oth the American people decide that they want to eat what they want is not right.
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    This article is about the right of the individual to be obese and how some feel it is necessary to tax the obese at a higher rate just for being obese. A clear personal freedom.
Kristine Amling

Legalize Gambling... - 0 views

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    The article by Patrick McMahon shows pro's and con's for legalizing gambling. Proponents say that it would bring a huge amount of money in taxes. Critics on the other hand notice that gambling is addictive and should not get more support than it already has.
Christina Cram

Obama Exaggerates Deficit Savings - 0 views

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    This article talks about how Obama's claim to save the deficit from $4 trillion of its dollars is not quite accurate. It tells where things (such as $700 million in war) were added that had already been taken out of the deficit budget and he is adding these numbers back in twice.
Dean Stewart

Money that benefits Americans - 0 views

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    In this article it explain how illegal immigrants do pay taxes, and how, and also most of which they might never get a chance to claim, and benefits the American citizens now.
Marshalette Dawkins

Gay Marriage as a Matter of Justice - 0 views

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    The article discusses the rights of married couples that are denied to gay couples as a result of illegal gay marriage. Some of the denied rights include tax benefits and the right to be notified as next of kin in case of death of a spouse
Aric Overton

White House proposes new help for troubled mortgages - 0 views

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    New plan to help out people with issues on paying their mortgages. But is it too late? How much more would each of our taxes go up?
Camille Rodriguez

Regulate cigarette manufacturers - 0 views

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    Tabacco good for the economy,so should everyone take up smoking because it is a profitable tax.
adam flores

Anti-smoking groups: Cuomo budget cuts effort - 0 views

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    the governor is trying to relay ads to teenagers about the dangers of smoking. but local groups would rather not spend their tax dollars
Alexis Boldt

After shootings, states rethink mental health cuts - 0 views

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    Great topic to consider. In relation to the recent shootings, states are rethinking the cuts on mental health hospitals. There is already a 20 percent budget increase.
Philleo Boni

Penalize Bad Personal Habits - 0 views

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    This article talks about penalizing the obesity people who live off of Medicaid. "The overall cost in obesity related maladies is estimated to be around 200 billion a year."
Trisha Rubi

Time to Legalize Marijuana? - 500+ Economists Endorse Marijuana Legalization - 0 views

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    This article talks about the legalization of marijuana and the gross annual income it can raise if legalized. If marijuana was taxed like cigarettes or alcohol, the annual income could be around 6 million dollars. This could be a key factor on getting the country out of debt and finding cures in diseases.
Dean Stewart

How much? - 0 views

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    In this article it explains how much money illegal immigrants and students it cost the Us taxpayers, annually.
Lori Lindner

'Sovereign Citizens' claim freedom from Arizona, federal laws - 0 views

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    Some people think that freedom means not obeying any laws not in the Constitution, which in turn puts them on an FBI watchlist. They don't pay taxes, send their children to school, or pay parking tickets.
Kayla Mulvania

Should Arizona be drug testing Arizona welfare recipients? - 1 views

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    Explains why it is necessary to drug test welfare recipients. Some say it is not fair to target this group of people and other feel that tax payers pay for these benefits and it is not fair to them.
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    This article discusses whether or not welfare recipients should be drug tested. Both opposing opinions are mentioned in the article. Personally, I believe that it should be required and that the opposing opinion in the article did not give a very good argument.
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