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Temporary Termination

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Posted on August 4, 2008 - 11:39pm at Bill Hobbs
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Various media are reporting that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing a "temporary" 1-cent sales tax increase. Such tax increases are never temporary, of course.

Business TN Interviews Kim McMillian

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Posted on May 15, 2008 - 10:49am at Post Politics
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See the entire interview with the prospective Gubernatorial candidate here:

BTN: Early media coverage of your announcement has focused on your 2002 vote in favor of an income tax for Tennessee. What is your response?

Spread The Holiday Love Over The Whole Year

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Posted on March 4, 2008 - 4:17pm at Volunteer Voters
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Our difficulties in scheduling our springtime tax holiday have not gone unnoticed and the Tax Foundation thinks we need to scrap the whole idea:

Sales tax on food drops -- barely -- in 2008

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Posted on December 31, 2007 - 8:56am at Rena A. Capley
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At midnight tonight, it will get a little bit cheaper to buy food, as the state sales tax rate on food drops by half of a percent. Currently, the state sales tax rate is 6 percent for grocery food...

More Problems with the Fair Tax

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Posted on December 30, 2007 - 3:25pm at MooreThougths
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Economist Bruce Bartlett (no liberal, by any stretch) comes out with a fourteen page offensive demonstrating the many drawbacks to the Fair Tax. Among the many problems noted by Bartlett, these struck me as the most notable. My summary, in order of importance:

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