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		<title>Tax Cuts, Less-Intrusive Gov&#8217;t Help Canada Soar</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2011/12/tax-cuts-less-intrusive-govt-help-canada-soar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Incompetence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by IBD Editorials - Success: Away from the low growth and high regulation of an America under Washington&#8217;s thumb, our northern neighbor is economically strong. As 2011 ends, Canada has announced yet another tax cut — and will soar even more. The Obama administration and its economic czars have flailed about for years, baffled about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why 20% Should Be New 25% In Reforming Corporate Rate</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2011/11/why-20-should-be-new-25-in-reforming-corporate-rate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Competitiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Ryan Ellis - If there&#8217;s a common denominator in tax reform and economic growth packages, it&#8217;s this: the corporate rate is too high, and needs to come down for the sake of keeping our employers competitive internationally. Even most on the Left have accepted this. The most common tax-rate target is 25%. Because of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coddling Misinformation About Taxation</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2011/09/coddling-misinformation-about-taxation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Chris Banescu - Warren Buffett and President Obama claim that the rich do not pay enough taxes. They both blame the American tax code of being unfair and coddling the rich. Both have been pushing the same class-warfare narrative for many years, using current US capital gains and dividends taxation rates as evidence for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Money Belongs To Politicians</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2011/02/your-money-belongs-to-politicians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Sector Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We need politicians to get their hands off our money, get off our backs, and stop treating us as though they have the carrot and we're the donkey.  We've grown those carrots and they belong to us.]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, Taxes Do Change Behavior</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2010/10/yes-taxes-do-change-behavior/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Incompetence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/?p=356</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[10/23/2010 &#8211; Tom Roberson - Bloomberg Businessweek details the complicated &#8220;Dutch Sandwich&#8221; tax strategy employed by Google to avoid the massive tax hit it would incur on overseas profits repatriated to the U.S. After reading this and seeing the lengths that U.S. companies go to protect their profits, can anyone seriously believe that taxes do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Obama Recovery</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2010/08/the-obama-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[8/23/2010 &#8211; Jeffrey Folks - During the same week in which the president was vacationing in a $50,000-per-night home in Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, half a million Americans were standing in line, waiting their turn to apply for unemployment benefits. Those benefits are about $400 a week, not enough to put food on the table, pay the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economy Needs Heart Transplant, Obama Offering Band-Aid</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2010/08/economy-needs-heart-transplant-obama-offering-band-aid/</link>
		<comments>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2010/08/economy-needs-heart-transplant-obama-offering-band-aid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[America&#8217;s economic situation needs an emergency heart transplant, but Obama and the Democrats keep offering band-aids instead. We need a major change in government economic, tax, and fiscal policies not more government bailouts. Yet the president is doing nothing to reverse the enormous uncertainty fostered by his own administration&#8217;s aggressive anti-business and pro high-tax initiatives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New York Times, Cheerleader for Higher Taxes</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2010/08/the-new-york-times-cheerleader-for-higher-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2010/08/the-new-york-times-cheerleader-for-higher-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/?p=296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In what can only be described as a partisan, pro-Obama puff piece, The New York Times has now proclaimed on its Economix Blog that tax increases are the best way to &#8220;stimulate&#8221; our economy and help America reach &#8220;fiscal sustainability&#8221;: The single biggest step our government could take this year to address the structural deficit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Buying More Union Votes With Your Tax Dollars</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2010/08/obama-buying-more-union-votes-with-your-tax-dollars/</link>
		<comments>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2010/08/obama-buying-more-union-votes-with-your-tax-dollars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has pledged more of your money to protect the unions and secure their vote. The administration demanded and got $26 billion taxpayer dollars to spare 300,000 teachers and other public workers from the unemployment lines. The hundreds of billions of taxpayer money already spent by Obama and the Democrats since 2009 to pay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Worst of Both Worlds</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2010/07/the-worst-of-both-worlds/</link>
		<comments>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2010/07/the-worst-of-both-worlds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/?p=273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[7/24/2010 &#8211; Henry Oliner - Karl Marx understood that capitalism is intrinsically productive but saw an inherent unfairness in any value other than that provided by labor. Marx also understood that individual incentives to produce would inevitably lead to overproduction and painful contractions. To avoid these contractions and their impact on labor costs, he believed [...]]]></description>
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