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Grover Norquist is Right to Oppose Internet Sales Taxes

When I visited my brother in London a few years back, I toted a suitcase packed with tennis balls. I paid New York City’s 8 ½ % sales tax to help my brother’s tennis-mad family avoid the UK’s 20% value-added … Continue reading

by Polly Cleveland | May 19, 2013
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Raise the Minimum Wage or Cut Low-Wage Taxes?

My son is a low-wage worker, a short-order cook. President Obama just called for an increase in the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $9.00 an hour. Yet he made no effort to save the “temporary stimulus” 2% payroll tax … Continue reading

by Polly Cleveland | February 17, 2013
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