Death and taxes
2009-10-21 02:35:00 Amazing! The value of homes and commercial real estate has plummeted but the value of the property for "assessment purposes" continues to rise. The explanation is here. Sort of. Maybe one of you can explain it. Aside from property assessments that continue to rise, local government taxes are certain, some as much as 5 percent. Ain't it grand. Everyone else is cutting back; government continues to grow....
Death, Taxes & Closer Turnover: Jenks is done
2009-09-23 18:12:00 A couple quick closer notes before I lock myself in a convention hall for the rest of the day... White Sox close Bobby Jenks will be shut down with a calf injury. Time to grab Matt Thornton and his 80 K's in 67 IP. David Aardsma is suffering from a bit of stiffness in his back. Mark Lowe was used in his place. Lowe is not as good an option as Thornton and may not see many more chances if Aardsma's back feels better, but for those desperate for that extra save... Houston Street will get his closers role back. Thank you Franklin Morales for the solid fill in work. Non-closer news: Disregard my match-up of Freddy Sanchez for Thursday, his knee injury is going to keep him out a bit longer.
By: The RotoFeed
?Cut Your Taxes??
2009-09-03 21:38:00 The bulk of our competitor nations are in far better economic shape than the U.S. Their medical systems both work better and cost far less than ours. Many have high speed rail systems that are faster and more efficient than auto travel and sometimes even flying. Most are recovering from the economic disaster that we ...
Estimated Taxes ? Who, When, and How Much
2009-09-02 06:28:00 The US tax system is a pay as you go system, which means you are supposed to pay taxes as you earn income. This isn’t a problem for many people because their employers withhold their taxes from their paycheck. But if you do not have enough money withheld from your paycheck or if you have ... Related Articles:How I Plan on Reducing My 2008 TaxesI hate doing taxesTaxes – Which is Better: Large Refund, or Owe the IRS?
By: Cash Money Life
New taxes to support churches and parochial schools take effect today
2009-09-01 08:10:00 A series of new State taxes to support houses of worship, parochial schools and religious ministries go into effect today (Tuesday, September 1, 2009). Saint Martin de Porres Roman Catholic Church, 5112 West Washington Boulevard, Chicago, where State Representative LaShawn Ford is on the Finance Council. A provision on page 342 of the Capital Bill, at Article 10, Section 1805, forces taxpayers to donate $140,000 to Representative Ford's church for "general infrastructure." These unconstitutional taxes are part of the legislative package surrounding the 996-page Capital Bill, which was sponsored by Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives Michael Madigan. The new tax revenue will not be distributed equally to all churches, religious schools and ministries. Rather, the General Assembly has designated a preference for...
Not Every Short Sale Seller Pays Taxes on Canceled Debt
2009-08-31 07:00:00 An average short sale seller may not really understand the tax consequences that may occur over the issue of canceled debt in a short sale. All sellers who are contemplating a short sale should get legal advice, but equally as important is to receive tax advice from a qualified and competent tax adviser. It's possible that certain types of canceled debt may trigger tax liabilities on a short sale. The law is complex. In particular, the possible ramifications of hard-money loans such as equity loans or cash-out refis should be discussed beforehand with a tax accountant. If the seller did not use that money to improve the home, it's possible that the seller may owe taxes when all is said and done . . . read more about canceled debt. More Articles by Elizabeth Weintraub: Establishing a Loss For Your Personal Residence Tax Consequences for a Home Business Office Writing Off Uninsured Home Losses ©Big Stock Photo Technorati tag: canceled debt
Drive-Thru: Lollipies, Liquor Taxes, and Phyllo Dough Successes
2009-08-26 08:12:00 Chicago Foodies visits new Bridgeport Asian fusion restaurant Han 202 and loves the resultsOur own Jill Jaracz gets to the bottom of the new liquor tax (effective September 1).When meat is scarce, turn to that little acorn-carrying critter in the yard for your next meal.Whitney in Chicago whips up a lovely-looking Stone Fruit Tea Cake.Pro Bono Baker gets all snacky on me with her White Bean Dip with Pita Chips.Cooking with phyllo dough is made easier, courtesy of Proud Italian Cook.Want information on Rick Bayless's new restaurant?Coco Cooks has the scoop on Lollipies. Yes, lollipies.Joelen's latest culinary adventure is Lime Cream Mango Pie, which sounds like something I'd wolf down in seconds.Want a world-class meal for a fraction of the...
Business Taxes In China. Feels Just Like Home.
2009-08-18 02:18:00 Ernst & Young is out with a very informative online publication on indirect taxes in China (h/t All Roads). The publication is entitled, "Navigating Chinese Indirect Taxes," and it provides a great overview of these taxes and how they can, and almost certainly will, impact your China business. It starts out with the following general comments regarding indirect taxes in China: Indirect taxes (specifically Value Added Tax, business tax, customs duty and consumption tax) play an important role in China, accounting for almost 60% of the government’s tax revenue. Newly revised regulations are changing how indirect taxes are treated in China. But these are often the forgotten tax on business. Tax directors may overlook these costs as they are above the line and usually not directly visible within the accounts or financial statements. We are often surprised to learn that many companies have yet to grasp the significance of the indirect taxes passing through the organization. More of...
By: China Law Blog
The Assessor's office on property taxes
2009-07-22 03:28:00 Yesterday I spoke with Eric Herman from the Cook County Assessor's office about what first time homebuyers should know about paying taxes. While property taxes change every year, the value of your home is assessed by his office once every three years. The value is generally determined by the selling price of similar homes in your neigborhood. But the assessment is only part of the equation of your property taxes as a whole. The assessment is multiplied by a local tax rate determined by government taxing bodies in the area. The majority of your taxes, Eric says, go to the school district. When you receive your tax bill, you'll get a breakdown of where each dollar amount went, whether its...
What's your home worth and how much should you pay in taxes?
2009-07-17 05:22:00 The value of a home is often in the eye of the beholder, but the inconsistency of home valuation is starting to cause problems when determining what price to list a house at and how much it shoud cost in taxes, says Don Yosef Marcus. Marcus is a Realtor for Century 21 MB, which has offices in Northbrook and Chicago. He also spent more than six years working for the Cook County Assessor's Office. "You can't really go to any website and accurately determine the value of a home, because most of the time the last time it was sold was '06 or '07, when valuations were much higher," Marcus says. In Cook County, the assessor determines the value of your home for tax purposes once every three years. The valuation is based on the sale price...
Glenn Beck?s Common Sense
2009-07-14 04:45:00 If you haven’t picked this book up yet, do so. Everyone should read it. I know Beck wants people to pass it on when they’re done with it, and I would do that, but that would mean giving one of you my address and then you’d start stalking me and I’d have to ...
Government To Redesign Recovery.gov
2009-07-10 16:00:00 I know what you’re thinking. “So what?” Well, the actual redesigning isn’t the issue. It’s how much it will cost. Dude, I could redesign the website for like, $20. But since it would be taxpayer money, I’ll do it for free. You know, so long as it was basic ...
Rasmussen Reports: President Barack Hussein Obama?s Approval Rating Lowest
2009-07-09 03:25:00 Struggling Economy And Job Losses Seem To Be The Catalyst Behind Newfound Unpopularity Of Number 44 Good ole’ 44 — the man seems to be genuinely interested in doing a decent job in the White House but President Obama’s “I inherited this crap sandwich from the previous... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Las Vegas real estate taxes. UP or down?
2009-06-22 20:02:00 I received a question from James today about real estate taxes. He writes. ” I am considering purchasing some real estate in Henderson. Â How much will property taxes be going up in the Las Vegas area and how should I plan?” Â When talking about property tax we have to consider two factors to consider total taxes paid. Â 1)Â The ...
Californians: Vote ?No? on Props 1A-E Today:Higher Taxes and Bigger Budget
2009-05-19 08:00:00 As we Californians head to the polls today to vote on ballot propositions related to the state’s finances, Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore remind us how the Golden State lost its luster: Is it coincidence that the two highest tax-rate states in the nation, California and New York, have the biggest fiscal holes to repair? No. ...
By: GayPatriot
The GTL? Sunday Guest Column ? ?You?re Fired!? By Christopher L. Doster
2009-05-18 03:44:00 GTL? Sunday Guest Columnist: Author And Moderately-Right-Of-Center Political Pundit, Christopher L. Doster Thinks It’s Time To Send Donald Trump To Washington To Do What He Does On Reality T.V. You’re Fired! I hate to admit this, but yes?I watched Donald Trump’s ?Celebrity... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
More Landlords Will Be Forced To Do This
2009-04-22 15:37:00 At one of our properties in NC we started an experiment at the start of April. All leases include language passing along fees and taxes imposed by local authorities. Things like required annual inspection fees, taxes and even the cost of the business license can be prorated to the tenants with our new lease language. ...
By: Investing Notes
Protesters tee off on big-spending politicians, taxes at Dallas-Fort Worth
2009-04-16 16:02:00 Protesters tee off on big-spending politicians, taxes at Dallas-Fort Worth tea parties For perhaps the only time Wednesday evening, the masses assembled outside Dallas City Hall grew quiet as the man who drew them there, Phillip Dennis, hunched over a wooden lectern, his eyes narrowing. But the libbers say none of this was real. If it ...
By: TexasFred's
Rowlett: Residents protest taxes at TEA party
2009-04-16 04:35:00 Rowlett: Residents protest taxes at TEA party In 1773 Americans threw crates of tea into the harbor to protest taxes. More than 200 years later, they protested higher taxes with tea again, this time hanging tea bags from hats and signs and gathering for TEA parties across the nation. A crowd of about 200 people gathered ...
By: TexasFred's
Fees Charged for Using Credit Cards to Pay Taxes are Deductible
2009-04-09 21:59:00 Yesterday, I wrote a post on why it may not be a good idea to pay your federal taxes with credit cards. The reason is that fees charged by service providers (at 2.49% of the amount paid) cannot make cardholders benefit from the transaction, unless the card has a rewards program that can compensate the ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Fees Charged for Using Credit Cards to Pay Taxes are Deductible
Can You Pay Federal Taxes with Credit Cards?
2009-04-08 17:18:00 The answer is Yes. The question isn’t really whether you can use plastics to pay taxes or not, but rather whether paying taxes with credit cards is worth it or not. How Much Does It Cost to Pay Taxes by Credit Cards? The IRS has two authorized partners which provide the convenience service of letting taxpayers pay taxes by credit cards. One is Official Payments and the other is Link2Gov. You can a major credit card, such as MasterCard, Visa, Discover, and American Express, to pay federal and state income taxes (Link2Gov only allows you to pay New York, North Dakota, Kentucky, Alabama, Kansas state taxes while Official Payments have all states available). However, as you can imagine, the service is not free. Both of them charge a convenient fee of 2.49% of the total payment with the minimum of $1. Unlike other retailers who pay the credit card transaction fees when customers use credit cards to make a payment, the government will not pay the fee, so eventually it comes down to ...
AIG Sues for Return of $300M in Taxes
2009-03-20 15:03:00 As AIG faces the loss of its bonuses, it?s quietly filed a lawsuit to recoup more than $300 million dollars in what it says are overpaid taxes. The company says it overpaid the government in charges for using off-shore tax havens. The suit effectively means AIG is using U.S. taxpayer money to sue its majority ...
By: Today's Talk
Free Taxes & Trading E-Book from TradeKing
2009-03-13 20:21:00 Did you trade stocks or ETF/mutual funds in 2008? If you did, do you find it’s sometimes confusing about your investment cost basis, taxes on capital gains, or capital losses carry-over? It wasn’t easy for me at tax time a few years ago when I first started to trade stocks while using pen & paper ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Free Taxes & Trading E-Book from TradeKing
AIG Is Suing The Government Over $306 Million In Taxes
2009-03-03 04:50:00 Considering the government has just gave them another 30 billion I think they should shut up. This is so absurd. In the midst of its negotiation with the federal government over revised terms of its bailout, American International Group Inc. sued the U.S. on Friday over a disputed $306 million in taxes, interest and penalties.The suit steps up a battle with the Internal Revenue Service largely over AIG's use of a controversial type of "tax arbitrage" transaction that authorities are challenging across the world.With the company essentially suing its owner, the suit ...SOURCE
Taxes Returned and Car Paid Off
2009-02-27 13:53:00 I got my federal and state tax returns today. This is my first year being taxed for my full salary plus a substantial amount for tutoring. Now that I know that I'm paying too much each month I'll be adjusting my withholding to get a little closer to even. While it is fun to get a tax return, I now fully trust myself to use the money wisely throughout the year. I don't need forced savings or to give the government an interest free loan. Since my credit cards were paid off earlier this month, I will be putting this money towards paying off my car. And that's it, the car will be paid in full. It feels really good to start knocking off these obligations. Have you gotten your returns back? How did you use the money?
By: Me vs Debt
Obama to Raise Taxes?
2009-02-22 18:07:00 I thought President Obama would wait at least until his third year in office to raise taxes. Well, I was wrong. He’s not even waiting until his third month in office to propose hiking those “fees” the government takes from us: President Obama is putting the finishing touches on an ambitious first budget that seeks to ...
By: GayPatriot
Should I continue paying taxes? / żDebo seguir pagando impuestos? / Devo pa
2009-02-13 14:11:00 As the local government is thinking about enforcing a series of measures to promote street vendors in Palermo Viejo, I can?t help but think about the following:- Street vendors don?t pay rent for putting a cloth or a table at the street with their products, which, most of the times, are made in China or India, or bought somewhere.- Street vendors sell often their products at the same price than most stores.- Street vendors don?t pay taxes.- Street vendors leave the streets filthy after they are done for the day.On the other hand:- I have helped support around 80 local artists, craftsmen and designers at my shop/gallery Atípica for almost six years.- I support Argentine design and creativity.- I support hand-crafted high quality.- I pay my rent on time.- My electricity, telephone and other services bills are 40% more expensive because I am engaged in a commercial activity.- I pay taxes such as ?Monotributo? and ?Ingresos Brutos?.- I pay for maintaining bank accounts, and for operatin...
Life, Love, Heartache, and Taxes.
2009-02-07 21:56:00 People, the blues is about life, love, heartache, and sometimes taxes. It is real stuff, it is the life of people that we know and love. The new administration would probably concur with my assessment, but that is a different story. Consider the sad case of our beloved blues singer Koko Taylor.She recently lost her case against the IRS. I'm very sad to have to report this, but Forbes.com has an online article titled More Tax Blues For Koko Taylor that provides the details.According to the article;Grammy-winning blues singer Koko Taylor has lost her unusual lawsuit seeking to force the Internal Revenue Service to scale back its efforts to collect upward of $400,000 in back taxes, penalties and interest from her, some dating to 1998.Koko Taylor @SqueezeMyLemon
By: SqueezeMyLemon
Taxes
2009-02-05 01:34:00 Regular people struggle and strategize about taxes. The wealthier and more privileged, evidently, have issues with the whole thing. President Obama has nominated three people who have tax issues. There seems to have been a scale where egregiousness is one one end, and honest mistake is on ...
By: BuffaloPundit
Further Thoughts on Presidential Appointements And Taxes
2009-02-04 17:06:00 First off, you’ll pardon me if I don’t shed any tears over Tom Daschle. Hopefully, he’ll be staying gone for good this time, though I doubt that’ll happen. He’s too deep in the councils of the Democrats to stay gone for very long. Even in the unlikely event Daschle is out of the picture totally,  don’t be thinking that Government healthcare is hobbled , either. Obama will simply find someone else to head the push. Howard Dean comes to mind, his record of being an incompetent boob not withstanding. Seems something of a job requirement, anymore, anyway. Only after he withdrew his name.(Apparently at the request of the Obama White House) did we discover that the limo and driver and the taxes involved with that, were not the only problem as regards taxes and Daschle’s lobby efforts. Turns out he’d been flying on private jets, as well. That’s a grade one crime in the world of the leftist, unless you happen to be flying into ...
By: BitsBlog
Another Obama Appointee Fails to Pay Taxes
2009-02-03 18:06:00 Obama performance chief Killefer out, citing taxes. As least Ms. Killefer “resolved” her tax issue before Obama tapped her. If she withdraws her nomination due to a tax lien of less than $1,000, shouldn’t Daschle do the same for more than $100,000 in unpaid taxes? And if he doesn’t, Republicans need follow thier new national chairman’s ...
By: GayPatriot
10 Tax Tips and Other Advice for Getting a Head Start on Your Taxes!
2009-02-02 08:00:00 I miss the days of being a dependent because that meant I didn’t have to worry about filing taxes and all of the rigmarole involved. Sometimes I wonder whether the tax system was set up so that people without an accounting degree would be forced to pay an accountant to do their taxes for them. ...
Daschle Democrats:Raising Our Taxes, Failing to Pay Their Own
2009-02-01 19:00:00 Perhaps some other blogger or wit has already found that really witty remark I’ve been looking for ever since it dawned on me this morning the delicious hypocrisy of those dubbed Leona Helmsley Democrats. I mean, isn’t it such Democratic politicians ever eager to hike our taxes? Shouldn’t they, to show their sincerity, be the ...
By: GayPatriot
San Francisco: Pope owes millions in taxes
2009-01-22 15:04:00 This should cause great wailing and gnashing of teeth: San Francisco will try to collect up to $15 million in taxes from the Archdiocese of San Francisco, which is refusing to pay certain taxes on properties the church is transferring from one Catholic nonprofit organization to another. That tax bill would be the second largest of its ...Copyright © 2008 Bligbi. This feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement.
By: Bligbi
Geithner apologizes for not paying taxes
2009-01-21 18:50:00 Geithner apologizes for not paying taxes WASHINGTON (AP) - Treasury Secretary-designate Tim Geithner said Wednesday he was careless in failing to pay $34,000 in Social Security and Medicare taxes earlier this decade and apologized to Congress. He told the Senate Finance Committee he was sorry that his past transgressions were now an issue in his confirmation ...
By: TexasFred's
Goldiron wrote a new blog post: Violence taxes police resources
2009-01-17 16:28:00 Goldiron wrote a new blog post: Violence taxes police resources Violence taxes police resources After a wave of violence this week, Salinas city officials are set to huddle in private today to discuss the rash of shootings and homicides, most of it believed to be gang-related. Two people died Sunday after being shot last week, and three people were shot to death Monday. On Thursday, six people ...
Given that Obama Supports ?Tax Cuts? for Those Who Don?t Pay Taxes . . .
2009-01-15 23:43:00 . . it makes sense he’d pick a man to serve as Treasury Secretary who took tax reimbursements for taxes he didn’t pay.
By: GayPatriot
Get Free Professional Tax and Investment Advice From TurboTax and Kiplinger
2009-01-15 11:29:00 Two well known and well respected financial companies are sponsoring free Q&A sessions with tax and financial professionals during the month of January. Jumpstart Your Retirement Plan Days This is the eighth year that Kiplinger’s magazine, along with National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA), have joined forces for the Jumpstart Your Retirement Plan Days program. ...
By: Cash Money Life
Obama?s choice for Secretary of Treasury Accused of not paying taxes for 3
2009-01-15 02:27:00 [From Dvorak Uncensored] WASHINGTON — Timothy Geithner didn’t pay Social Security and Medicare taxes for several years while he worked for the International Monetary Fund, and he employed an immigrant housekeeper who briefly lacked proper work papers. Those issues, and a series of other tax matters, scuttled a tentatively scheduled confirmation hearing Tuesday for Mr. ...
On Geithner?s Taxes, the MSM and the Rocky Transition
2009-01-14 23:18:00 At first blush, it seems that Timothy Geithner’s failure to pay taxes should disqualify him from serving as Treasury Secretary, yet as one who, for the past decade, has paid someone to do his taxes, I am willing to cut him some slack given that for “four of the years in question” he prepared his ...
By: GayPatriot
Treasury nominee says he failed to pay taxes
2009-01-14 04:17:00 Treasury nominee says he failed to pay taxes WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to run the Treasury Department and lead the economic rescue effort disclosed publicly Tuesday that he failed to pay $34,000 in taxes from 2001 to 2004, a last-minute complication in an otherwise smooth path to confirmation. Timothy Geithner paid most of the past-due taxes days before Obama announced his nomination in November, according to materials released by the Senate Finance Committee. He had paid the remainder of the taxes in 2006, after the IRS sent him a bill. The still-unpaid taxes were discovered by Obama’s transition team while investigating Geithner’s background. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus said he still hoped Geithner could be confirmed on Inauguration Day. Obama’s staff told senators about Geithner’s tax issues Dec. 5. “These errors were not intentional; they were honest mistakes,” Baucus said after he and othe...
By: TexasFred's
Geithner Didn’t Pay Taxes
2009-01-14 01:09:00 WASHINGTON –(AP)- (Timothy Geithner)… President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to run the Treasury Department and lead the nation’s economic rescue disclosed publicly Tuesday that he failed to pay $34,000 in taxes from 2001 to 2004, a last-minute complication that Senate Democrats tried to brush aside as a minor bump on an otherwise smooth path to confirmation. Minor bump? He failed to pay self-employment taxes for money he earned while working for IMF from 2001 to 2003, according to materials released by the Senate committee. In 2006, the IRS notified him that he owed $14,847 in self-employment taxes and $2,383 in interest from 2003 and 2004, which he paid after an audit. The IRS waived penalties for those tax years. Transition officials discovered last fall that Geithner also had not paid the taxes in 2001 or 2002. He paid $25,970 in back taxes and interest for those years several days before Obama announced his choice, the committee documents showed. So the outs...
By: BitsBlog
How to File Your 2008 Federal Taxes For Free
2009-01-12 11:20:00 Tax season is open! While the first day to e-file your 2008 taxes isn’t until this Friday, January 16, 2009, you can start your tax return any time before then. I highly recommend using e-file when you file your taxes because your tax return is processed twice as quickly as a paper tax return. You ...
By: Cash Money Life
UAW Floating ?Phantom Employees? and Avoiding Property Taxes At Luxury Golf
2009-01-05 13:27:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Some new tough questions are being asked about Black Lake Golf Club, the luxury golf course owned by the United Auto Workers union in Cheboygan County, Michigan. Along with the multi-million dollar golf resort, the UAW also funds what it calls an “education center” with the funding connected to the resort. As ...
By: Publius Forum
States forget how to cut budgets but love to raise taxes
2008-12-26 18:35:00 Washington Times: Governors want to levy higher taxes next year on clothes, soft drinks, gasoline, auto licenses and other items that likely will hit low- and middle-income families struggling to make ends meet in a deepening recession the hardest. Officials say…
By: Jutia Group
What Will Obama Do With Capital Gains Taxes?
2008-12-18 00:43:00 Dow Jones Newswire reports that President-elect Obama's plans include:Exempting seniors earning less than $50,000 from income tax.Increase the top two marginal tax rates from their current levels of 33 percent and 35 percent to 36 percent and 39.6 percent, respectively. Based on 2009 income thresholds, that would result in a tax increase on singles making $171,550 or more and married couples making $208,850 or more.Taxpayers in those brackets also face increased taxes because President-elect Obama plans to restore phase-outs of personal exemptions and itemized deductions. This means that high-earners would not only face higher tax rates, but they would also lose some or all of their personal exemptions and itemized deductions.Obama has also proposed raising the tax rate on capital gains income from 15 percent to 20 percent for single taxpayers making more than $200,000 and for married couples earning more than $250,000 annually.Of course, nothing is set in stone yet and some of the...
StoneMor Partners (STON): Death and taxes
2008-12-16 06:00:00 "As the only publicly-traded firm in the death care business structured as a tax-advantaged MLP, StoneMor Partners (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/quote.htm?sym=ston) (NASDAQ: STON (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/quote.htm?sym=ston)) may be one of the few plays on both death and taxes," says Bill Martin (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/ccount/click.php?id=2639).In- a somber pronouncement in his BullMarket.com (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/ccount/click.php?id=2639), he states, "Let's face it, with the Baby Boom generation aging, death could be a real growth industry over the next 20 years or so.""The Levittown, Pennsylvania-based partnership's payout is presently yielding close to 20% at current levels as the stock is trading at about half of its peak valuation."StoneMor owns and operates 230 cemeteries and 59 funeral homes in 27 states and Puerto Rico. Its cemetery products include: burial lots, lawn and mausoleum crypts, burial vaults, caskets, memorials, and all relat...
Raising Federal Gas Taxes Raised to? Stop Terrorism?
2008-12-13 15:59:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The Washington Post is directing a December 8 plea to the incoming Obama administration. The Post wants to raise the federal gas tax so high that it will stop people from driving. The Post thinks this will serve our national security purposes and add more money to rebuild our nation’s roads. Apparently, ...
By: Publius Forum
Nightly Ramble:The Ongoing Saga of Blago And Obama;Taxes, More
2008-12-10 22:03:00 Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly read on the ’sphere… Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble Snow, freezing rain, grey skies, just plain yuck, miserable driving, freezing my cheeks off… yep. Gotta be the holiday season. I know I’ve not put up any Christmas light shots, but that’s mostly because there hasn’t been enough snow to take one. The snow sets the lights off so well. Lots going on, let’s get to it. Without question, we’ll all be adding a new word to our vocabulary… we’ll all be learning how to pronounce ‘Blagojevich‘. The irony of the day must be that Blagojevich ran on an anti-corruption platform. Joyner over at OTB, by way of a WaPo article, points out that Blago was threatening the Tribune, too. As media analysts question the continuing relevance of newspapers, prosecutors are charging Blagojevich in an extraordinary scheme to silence critics at the state’s largest paper — even as they...
By: BitsBlog
Union?s Cure for State Budget Shortfall? Raise Taxes!
2008-12-04 19:35:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Apparently, the Service Employees International Union is worried about the state of California’s budget. The SEIU, one of the nation’s biggest employee unions for state workers, would like Sacramento to know they have a cure for the millions in the red state budget. Could it be that the union is going to offer ...
By: Publius Forum
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