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• Transocean tries to limit liability for sunken rig

  Thu May 13, 2010
  • If any of these three companies try to squeek out - BAR them from oil operations in the US and take away their passports.

• U.S. exempted BP rig from environmental study

  Wed May 5, 2010
  • How many executives and appointees do you think this administration had put in place at Interior Minerals Management Service for that key decision??? S. Elizabeth (Liz) Birnbaum assumed duties as Director of the Minerals Management Service (MMS) on July 15, 2009.

• Surgery regrets: I want my prostate back

  Wed Apr 28, 2010
  • Luckily my cancer was caught at a low PSA and Gleason level. I think enduring the biopsy was a non-event when considering the other outcomes.

• Goldman fuels rising financial reform pressure

  Mon Apr 19, 2010
  • HURRAH for the GOP, the financial sector can rate and recommend itself forever -said Curly, Larry and Moe.

• Do you think Wall Street is rigged against average investors?

  Fri Apr 16, 2010
  • Normal people can't analyze financials, let alone special entities like Enron and Lehman created

• The five dumbest parts of the U.S. tax code

  Wed Apr 14, 2010
  • -- The sixth dumbest part of the tax code -- The effective federal income tax rate for the 400 taxpayers with the very highest incomes has declined by nearly half over the past two decades, even as their pre-tax incomes have grown five times larger, new IRS data show.

• Americans seeing lower tax bills

  Wed Apr 14, 2010
  • The top 400 households paid 16.6 percent of their income in federal individual income taxes in 2007, down from 30 percent in 1995. This decline works out to a tax cut of $46 million per filer in 2007, or a total of $18 billion in tax cuts for these households per year.

• The five dumbest parts of the U.S. tax code

  Wed Apr 14, 2010
  • The effective TAX bite by income range (including Federal, State and Local tax): Lowest 20% --- ave income 12,400 -- tax on income 16% 2nd 20% --- ave income 25,000 -- tax on income 20.5% 3rd 20% --- ave income 40,400 -- tax on income 25.3%

• Americans seeing lower tax bills

  Wed Apr 14, 2010
  • Tax on income quoted includes all (federal, state and local) and it is the effective tax rate!

• Americans seeing lower tax bills

  Wed Apr 14, 2010
  • The TAX bite by income range (including Federal, State and Local tax): Lowest 20% --- ave income 12,400 - tax on income 16% 2nd 20% --- ave income 25,000 - tax on income 20.5% 3rd 20% --- ave income 40,400 - tax on income 25.3%