No clunker rebates for rich? Or poor? Nevermind

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, wanted to prevent Microsoft founder Bill Gates and other rich people from benefiting from the "cash-for-clunkers" program.

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Fashion heiress, economist push foreign aid plan

An unlikely duo of a fashion heiress and a Nobel Prize-winning economist is pushing a controversial plan to boost aid to the developing world by giving wealthy donors a greater say in how the money is distributed.

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Rich begin feeling the pain in down economy

The rich are sharing your financial pain — and contributing to it.

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3 Md. Dogs Enjoy $800,000 Inheritance

They're not as loaded as Leona Helmsley's pooch, but three Maryland canines are plenty rich enough to live high on the dog.

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Two top Democrats say they want to impose a new tax on the wealthy to finance any increase in U.S. troops for the Afghanistan war.

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Participation in the Internal Revenue Service's amnesty program was "unprecedented" and the final number was nearly double the agency's estimate in October, U.S. Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman told reporters in a telephone briefing.

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"A group of rich Germans has launched a petition calling for the government to make wealthy people pay higher taxes."

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"There's always been envy and hatred toward the rich, but there was also a strong undercurrent of admiration that was holding these people up as a goal," Mr. Dammann said.

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Wealthy U.S. taxpayers, concerned about an Internal Revenue Service crackdown on the use of secret overseas bank accounts as tax havens, are rushing to meet a Thursday deadline to disclose those accounts or face possible criminal prosecution.

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Thursday is the deadline for Americans to come clean about the money they have hidden offshore, in places like Swiss bank accounts. No one can say with certainty how much money is out there — the accounts are secret — but the hoard may be tens of billions of dollars.

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LOL Goooooooooooo Obama! No wonder the wealthy are so angry and laying every body off trying to make every body mad at our President! .

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When members of Congress proposed paying for expanded health care with a tax surcharge on America's wealthiest citizens, the attack was swift but predictable. Taxing the top was labeled "class war," an attack on the successful, and bad for business and the economy.

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The best way to understand Larry Summers, the man who's shaping America's economy from his director's chair at the National Economic Council, is to meet the people he hangs out with.

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If "we" think we're getting messed with, it's because "we" are!

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My Monday is pretty much planned out. Aside from a natural disaster or other altering event, assuredly my Monday will be much better than these 5,000 UBS offshore banking customers. Hopefully there's enough to cover back tax in each.

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Finally, there's no pretense. The ugliest traits of this despicable movement are there for all to behold.

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The Republican Party is disintegrating in front of our eyes. The latest Gallup Poll has them leading in party identification in six states. Six! They're tied in two. That means they're trailing in 42 states!

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Buying nothing...interesting!

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In its ongoing investigation of wealthy Americans suspected of evading taxes via offshore bank accounts, the Internal Revenue Service is planning to expand the search to include attorneys and others who may have advised the account owners, legal tax experts told USA Today. Summa …

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The America I Used to Know

I grew up in Arizona in the 40s and 50s, went to a State Land Grant College in 1959. My tuition was so low that I could work part time for $5 an hour, and keep a roof over my head while I went to school. Those were the days when we dreamed of, and worked for, opportunity for all.

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A group of Democrats elected in recent years from some of the country's richest congressional districts have emerged as a stumbling block to raising taxes on the wealthy to pay for President Barack Obama's ambitious health-care overhaul just as the plan has begun to meet increasi …

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Trying to sell a historic health bill to a balky caucus, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told POLITICO in an interview that she wants to soften a proposed surcharge on the wealthy so that it applies only to families that make $1 million or more.

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What I Want in a New Health Care Plan

Below is what I as a Republican would like in order to support a new health care plan.

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2. Educate yourself When Steve Maxwell graduated from college, he had an engineering degree and a high-tech job—but he couldn't balance his checkbook.

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America, Where is your Common Sense?

Surely America is a powerful nation and boasted as one of the richest nations in the world. However, despite all that we have accomplished throughout the years this country was born, we seemed to have left out one very important detail: common sense.

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There's a cycle going on here: if you don't put money in consumers' hands, you get repetitive cycles of layoffs and growing unemployment.

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I wanted to see a pic of her since I saw she had looked really good there. She has an interesting Lana Turner look as it says. You can't really see the dress here but the top of it. She seems to have a new boyfriend.

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A witty article on the uber-mystique of a credit card product called the Centurion Card tangled with the current state of the economy.

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Poll: Do you agree with Obama's proposed Tax Hikes?

Obama is proposing many new tax changes and rules on corporations and the wealthy of this country. To help pay for more Government spending and to support the new proposed Health Care Plan.

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