State tax auditors are being told to shake down local businesses to generate revenue. And while big businesses have internal tax specialists who can fight unjustified assessments, small businesses often have no choice but to pay since the cost to them of fighting back is so high.
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Whatever the outcome, the challenges in Southern Sudan are daunting. Some 51 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, and more than half are under the age of eighteen. Only 27 percent of the adult population is literate.
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Because the bulk of Sudan's oil lies in the South, while the North has the pipelines and refineries. The South's likely decision to secede, then, will almost certainly trigger a return to war.
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As with other conflicts inside Sudan, the ongoing, violent tug of war over Abyei -- an oil rich territory straddling the north-south border -- has both local and national dimensions.
Was it too much to ask Congress to examine this government intervention in the free market critically before authorizing the transfer of US taxpayer dollars to benefit the banking sector?
Palin is grotesquely unqualified to be president. That's what makes her the next Brownie, and the latest, and perhaps greatest, human sacrifice to the drooling GOP God of Political Expediency.