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Obama Slams Romney On Taxes

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GERMANY: Catholic Bishops Crack Down On Church Tax Refusers

Germany’s Catholic bishops have declared that they will no longer perform sacraments or burial services for those that opt-out of paying church taxes. Germans who officially declare themselves members of major denominations pay an additional 8% of their annual tax bill which is then granted to their church.  The Vatican has approved the new decree. Alarmed by a wave of …

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Headlines Of The Day

Stories are here and here.

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Full Page In Today’s Washington Post

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Vote Satan 2012

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Mitt Romney: I Can’t Release Tax Returns Because It’s Against My Religion

“Our church doesn’t publish how much people have given. This is done entirely privately. One of the downsides of releasing one’s financial information is that this is now all public, but we had never intended our contributions to be known. It’s a very personal thing between ourselves and our commitment to our God and to our church.” – Mitt Romney, …

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RNC Head: Harry Reid Is A Dirty Liar

(Via Think Progress)

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Reid Repeats Romney Tax Claim

“The word’s out that he hasn’t paid taxes in ten years. Let him prove that he has paid taxes because he hasn’t.”

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Dems Slam GOP Candidates On Taxes

Ay que bitchy! The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has created the same ad for more a dozen other GOP candidates.

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Paul Krugman On Romney’s Taxes

“Because the rich are different from you and me, many of them are incredibly self-centered. They don’t even see how funny it is — how ridiculous they look — when they attribute the weakness of a $15 trillion economy to their own hurt feelings. After all, who’s going to tell them? They’re safely ensconced in a bubble of deference and …

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Business Week On The LDS

An excerpt: It’s perhaps unsurprising that Mormonism, an indigenous American religion, would also adopt the country’s secular faith in money. What is remarkable is how varied the church’s business interests are and that so little is known about its financial interests. Although a former Mormon bishop is about to receive the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, and despite a recent public-relations …

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UN Calls For Tax On Billionaires

The United Nations has called for a special tax on the world’s billionaires, saying that such a fund could provide as much as $400B a year for impoverished countries. An annual lump sum payment by the super-rich is one of a host of measures including a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, currency exchanges or financial transactions proposed in a UN …

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Obama Slams Romney Over Tax Havens

Embiggen for details.

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The Largest Tax Increase In History?

Not even close. (Via Think Progress)

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$71B Annually To Subsidize Religion

So claims the Council for Secular Humanism. (Via Zack Ford)

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NORTH DAKOTA: Voters Consider Ballot Measure To Ban Property Tax Entirely

Schools? Roads? Firefighters? Feh! New York Times: Since Californians shrank their property taxes more than three decades ago by passing Proposition 13, people around the nation have echoed their dismay over such levies, putting forth plans to even them, simplify them, cap them, slash them. In an election here on Tuesday, residents of North Dakota will consider a measure that …

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Is Prop 8 Behind Romney’s Tax Secrecy?

If so, that would only give him cred with the Not-Romneys. According to ABC News, Romney gave millions to the Mormon Church right about then. Newly uncovered stock contributions made during Romney’s Bain days suggest there is another dimension to Romney’s support for the church — one that could involve millions more than has been previously disclosed. As part of …

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DNC Rips Romney On Taxes

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FRC: We Invented The Child Tax Credit

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Tweet Of The Day

Story here.

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