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From Beryl Reid’s 1968 TV Series “Beryl Reid Says “Good Evening”” Bookmark & Share:

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I am currently reading the late Robert Nozick’s classic book Anarchy, State and Utopia ¹ in which he argues against Anarchy concluding that the State is necessary and just, and against Utopianism (i.e. marxists, communists, socialists) concluding that only a minimal State is necessary and just. Nozick, a self-described libertarian, says that envy is the driving motivator behind both the Anarchic and Utopianist ideologies: It is [...]

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Will the oil spill help Obama close the tax gap? Here’s Louis Sahagun writing for Tribune Newspapers:  BP’s request for tax records poses a problem for some residents of fishing communities in southeastern Louisiana — the nonconformists who haven’t kept records or reported their cash income. The first step for a commercial fisherman or coastal [...]

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Stephen Hudak writing for the Orlando Sentinel: The government’s arrest of a New York investment adviser should help Orlando-born actor Wesley Snipes’ ongoing bid to overturn his tax-related convictions and avoid prison, the movie star’s former lawyer said. Kenneth Starr (no relation to the Ken Starr of Clinton-Lewinsky fame) was arrested and charged last Thursday with defrauding [...]

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When I was eight years old I got upset with my parents because they wouldn’t allow me to cross busy 12th avenue alone. I remember pleading with my dad: Other parents let their kids cross the street alone. Why won’t you? He told me to move in with them and then I could cross the street alone all I wanted. Few [...]

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It is indeed rare in debate that your opponent concedes and converts to your position yet it has come very close to that in my ongoing disagreement with Jim Maule. My argument is and always has been not that tax increases are wrong as a matter of policy – although I think they are – but rather, that Professor Maule [...]

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I thought I had encountred all of the absurd tax protester arguments known to man, but Paul Caron has stumbled upon a new one (emphasis and footnotes are mine): From Business Day: Stephen Blackman tried explaining his failure to disclose more than $300,000 in income by claiming he didn’t know what the “$” symbol meant.¹ Sam Ellis, appearing [...]

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