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Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen's Revenue Commissioner, Reagan Farr, thinks spending tax dollars for state revenue employees to make videos of skits that joke about auditing dead taxpayers is "fairly good fun." NewsChannel 5's Phil Williams has the story.

NewsChannel5 has a report on those hard-working folks at the Tennessee Department of Revenue and the seminars they attend - at your expense - to hone their tax-collecting skills. Judging from his attempts to defend the events, Revenue Commissioner Reagan Farr has a future in stand-up comedy.

Adam Groves on the new push to entice large corporations to relocate in Tennessee:

The Bredesen administration is - once again - trying to prevent a member of the public from accessing public records by making it unnecessarily expensive and difficult for them to do so.

The Tennessee Journal reports that now that the technical corrections bill has passed the legislature we may never know if the somewhat tortured interpretation of

Politicians are quite the disgusting lot.  Bredesen and his media friends want you to believe he’s a great businessman willing to make sacrifices.  But if you’re a taxpayer who stays informed, you know the truth. Governor Bredesen has been on the march, with the help of his Revenue Commissioner Reagan Farr, to get more of your money.

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The Tennessee Center for Policy Research has issued a press release on the “Technical Corrections” bill:

From Tom Humphrey:

Two Washington, D.C., attorneys criticized another provision of the bill that would change the language in Tennessee law for taxation of downloaded books, movies and music.