Changes go into effect this year.
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In a message accompanying his fiscal year 2010 budget, Barack Obama said: “For the better part of three decades, a disproportionate share of the nation’s wealth has been accumulated by the very wealthy. Yet, instead of using the tax code to lessen these increasing wage disparities, changes in the tax code over the past eight years exacerbated them.”
To the editor:
It must be great working for a big, sophisticated, forward-thinking operation like The Washington Post. Oh, to be able to afford to pay brilliant people to sit around and invent whole new, out-of-the-box ways to make a buck.
To the editor:
On Monday, the U.S. Senate will hold a confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. As the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, I have pledged that this hearing will be fair and respectful — but also thorough and rigorous.
Sen. John Ensign caused his own problems. And as word emerged Thursday that the senator’s wealthy parents gave his mistress and her family $96,000 after they’d heard he’d been having an affair with his best friend’s wife, Nevadans who have viewed John Ensign as a decent man and appropriate representative began to feel like villagers under an artillery barrage, cringing as they wait to see when and where the next shell will fall.
Yes, enforcing the laws against illegal immigration might involve men with handcuffs leading away the nice lady who brings you chips and salsa at your favorite Mexican restaurant. I am not thoroughly happy with that prospect, since I agree it certainly seems young Maria is doing us no immediate harm, merely seeking a better life for herself and her kids, and I do enjoy the chips and salsa.
A new report on the Clark County public defender’s office backs up the findings of previous reviews this decade: The office’s attorneys have some of the highest felony caseloads in the country.
The essence of Sacha Baron Cohen’s comedy lies in its daring. This crazy British guy will do just about anything.
There are public relations fires, and then there are five-alarm, image-incinerating arson jobs like the one that has engulfed the Clark County Fire Department.
As California teeters, Democrats are left to contemplate how this living laboratory of liberalism — with its smothering taxes, intrusive regulatory apparatus, generous social services and well-fed, heavily unionized public sector — could now find itself on the brink of collapse.
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Las Vegas is now part of an unfortunate club. It’s one of many cities where a viral video has been shot revealing the ruinous results of soft-on-crime policies embraced by Democrats.
CRT adherents don’t see two individuals, they see two representatives of their class. Deobra Redden is Black, so he’s oppressed. Judge Mary Kay Holthus, who’s white, is the oppressor.
As many as 26 percent of American adults — more than 1 in 4 — have some type of disability.
A new Review-Journal feature called “What Are They Hiding?” will spotlight all the bad-faith ways Nevada governments hide public records from taxpayers.
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