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- Vargas reported Bushs claims about tax cuts, omitted critics views
  Posted by newscloud from Media Matters
  On the May 17 broadcast of ABC's World News Tonight, anchor Elizabeth Vargas noted President Bush's claim that dividend and capital gains tax cuts passed in 2003 "have helped expand the economy and create jobs," but she omitted any mention of critics who have challenged the administration&#...
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- Hannity asserted federal, state, local governments "take about 50 percent of our income"; anti-tax group refutes claim
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  On the April 26 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, co-host Sean Hannity claimed that "the federal government and the state and local governments take about 50 percent of our income." Hannity's claim about the aggregate tax burden faced by Americans is contradicted by the conservativ...
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- Fighting Feudal Taxes
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  It’s no secret that the Bush administration has showered high-income groups with federal tax benefits. Nor is it news that income and wealth is highly concentrated at the top. What have gone largely unnoticed, however, are new signs that outside of Washington, state by state, the public is quietly beginning to challenge the privileged position of those at the top.
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- Most find tax system unfair
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  People think the middle class, the self-employed and small businesses pay too much in taxes, the poll found. And they think those with high incomes and big businesses don’t pay enough. The survey was conducted in the days before the mid-April deadline for filing income tax returns.
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- Matthews mischaracterized polls showing people trust Democrats on taxes and claimed "nobody has ever accused the Democrats of tax cutting"
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  While MSNBC host Chris Matthews did not repeat his prior false claim that "people trust Republicans more than Democrats on tax cutting" -- which he stated on the March 13 edition of Hardball with Chris Matthews -- he nonetheless continued to mischaracterize polls showing that the public prefers Dem...
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- CBS falsely suggested new IRS proposal on selling tax info "improve[s] taxpayer protections"; in fact, selling would expand
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  On the March 23 broadcast of the CBS Evening News, in a segment examining a recent Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulations proposal that would allow tax return preparers to sell information from returns to third parties, Washington correspondent Bob Orr characterized the proposal as spelling out...
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- Gregory uncritically reported Republicans baseless assertion that Americans prefer president on taxes
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  On the March 16 broadcast of NBC's Nightly News, NBC News chief White House correspondent David Gregory uncritically reported a claim by "Republican leaders'" that the "president's strengths, like tax cuts or tough anti-terror measures, have been overlooked" because of Americans' concern over the w...
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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
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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
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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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