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Yesterday, the Washington Post, New York Times and other news sources ran stories about a new JCT “report” that was sent to Democratic congressional staff relating to the distribution of their proposal versus the Republican proposal (and current law) regarding the expiring “Bush” tax cuts. Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein popularized this chart that was in [...] New York will jump from the 4th-highest state cigarette excise tax in the U.S. to the highest under a proposal to be voted on today, going from $2.75 per pack to $4.35 per pack, a 58% increase. New York City adds an additional $1.50 tax. The New York Times reports today: The proposal, which officials said [...] If you want a tax credit for making a movie in Michigan, you better be on Janet Lockwood’s good side. Ms. Lockwood, Michigan’s film commissioner, is wielding her power to deny credits to some movies, as reported in an excellent article by the New York Times: “This film is unlikely to promote tourism in Michigan or [...] The New York Times reports: A Texas pipeline tycoon who died two months ago may become the first American billionaire allowed to pass his fortune to his children and grandchildren tax-free. …Had his life ended three months earlier, Mr. Duncan’s riches – Forbes magazine estimated his worth at $9 billion, ranking him as the 74th wealthiest in [...] By MAGGIE MAHAR Last week, I commented on a New York Times story that appeared Wednesday, June 2, attacking the Dartmouth Research. The work that Dartmouth has done over the past two decades suggests that hospitals in some parts of… By MERRILL GOOZNER Reed Abelson and Gardiner Harris in the New York Times are questioning some of the key assumptions behind the Dartmouth Atlas of Health, which for twenty years has documented wide variations in Medicare utilization rates across the… By BOB WACHTER You probably saw yesterday’s hospitalist piece in the New York Times, arguably the best lay article on the movement to date. It hit all the right notes, and did so with uncommon grace and fairness. The piece,… Surefire…www.surefire.com SureFire began as a laser sight company, Laser Products Corporation. Presently based out of Fountain Valley, California, SureFire remains an innovator in the flashlight industry and continues to be the biggest supplier of flashlights to the US Armed Forces. The flashlights seen mounted on the forends of M4 carbines and M16 rifles carried by [...] The New York Times is reporting the Home Buyer Tax Credit a “success”, whereby success means that a lot of people have taken free money. Broaden the definition to mean increasing the number of first first-time homebuyers and the program doesn’t seem so stellar: Though the Treasury Department and the real estate industry have termed the [...] |
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