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- Will Matthews be "amazed" about his ability to "keep being wrong" about Dems and taxes?
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  During MSNBC's coverage of President Bush's October 11 press conference and on MSNBC's Hardball later that day, Chris Matthews made false, misleading, and baseless claims regarding Democratic tax policy, fiscal responsibility, and public opinion of Democratic credibility on taxes. Imme...
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- Cavuto left unchallenged Mehlmans false claim that Rangel said Dems would raise taxes "across the board" if they retake House
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  On the October 6 edition of Fox News' Your World, host Neil Cavuto did not challenge Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman's false claim that Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), "who would be chairman of the Ways and Means Committee" if "the Democrats were in control," has said that "y...
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- Krauthammer falsely claimed estate tax "penalizes a lot of small businesses"
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  On the July 28 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer falsely claimed that the estate tax "penalizes a lot of small businesses" and could leave the "heirs" of a "small-business owner" with "nothing." In fact, the estate tax affects very...
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- Hume referred to GOP-led House of Representatives as "we"
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  On the July 23 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday, guest host and Washington bureau managing editor Brit Hume used the pronoun "we" in reference to the Republican-led House of Representatives, which recently passed a bill to cut the estate tax. Hume said: "We've passed" a mea...
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- Bush Administration Cuts Audit Staff at IRS for Wealthy
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  More Bush corruption: "But six I.R.S. estate tax lawyers whose jobs are likely to be eliminated said in interviews that the cuts were just the latest moves behind the scenes at the I.R.S. to shield people with political connections and complex tax-avoidance devices from thorough audits." Sharyn Phillips, a veteran I.R.S. estate tax lawyer in Manhattan, called the cuts a “back-door way for the Bush administration to achieve what it cannot get from Congress, which is repeal of the estate tax.”
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- On NewsHour, WSJs Moore misled on wealthy Americans tax burden
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  During a discussion of the new estimated U.S. budget deficit on the July 11 edition of PBS' The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Wall Street Journal editorial board member Stephen Moore asserted that "a lot of the new [tax] revenue is coming from rich people," and then asked rhetorically, "if [Bush...
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- Ignoring Bush tax panels findings, Boortz again misled on "Fair Tax"
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  On the May 24 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, nationally syndicated radio host Neal Boortz made misleading claims about the Fair Tax Act, introduced by Rep. John Linder (R-GA), which would replace all existing federal taxes with a national retail sales tax on most consumer and govern...
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Jeff comments on:
Microsoft's $528 million Washington tax break

You are misunderstanding – this is about Washington B & O taxes on corporations, not income taxes.

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9:31 pm 4/02/08
Jeff comments on:
High-tech giants seeking massive tax break

Check out my rebuttal to Top Reader Excuses for Microsoft’s Tax Avoidance here.

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11:06 am 2/12/08
edseccocpa comments on:
Microsoft's $528 million Washington tax break

Your concern that Microsoft is avoiding paying income taxes to the State of Washington is based on the erroneous belief that there is an income tax in Washington. Please check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_income_tax

I really don’t know what you’re belly aching about.

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9:53 am 2/04/08
Jeff comments on:
Bush Administration Cuts Audit Staff at IRS for Wealthy
the NYT ran this pretty deep
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10:52 pm 7/23/06

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