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Now we know why the Editor of Medical Tuesday was targeted.

Several years ago the editor of MedicalTuesday received a notice of a tax audit alleging an under payment of an amount that equaled 90% of his income that year. After six months of researching files with my CPA, essentially all of the charges were reversed. How could the IRS come up with any reasonable idea that 90% of my deductions, which were essentially the same over many years, should be disallowed?

This was obviously a targeted audit.

CEO of Starbucks, tells Christians, to sell their Starbucks stock.

Steven Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, told Christians, if they don’t like his stance on Gay marriage, to Sell their Starbuck Stock and take their business elsewhere. He said the current 10% drop in his stock price was just a normal variant. Many of us that normally visited Starbuck have followed his advice and have switched to Peet’s Coffey.

A recent walk by the normally very busy Starbucks across from my office found three workers not working. No one was in line for coffee either. You suppose the coffee crowd is taking his advice?

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Previous Issue

“The new "29ers."

Welcome to the strange new world of small-business hiring under ObamaCare. The law requires firms with 50 or more "full-time equivalent workers" to offer health plans to employees who work more than 30 hours a week. (The law says "equivalent" because two 15 hour a week workers equal one full-time worker.) Employers that pass the 50-employee threshold and don't offer insurance face a $2,000 penalty for each uncovered worker beyond 30 employees. So by hiring the 50th worker, the firm pays a penalty on the previous 20 as well.

Because other federal employment regulations also kick in when a firm crosses the 50 worker threshold, employers are starting to cap payrolls at 49 full-time workers. These firms have come to be known as "49ers." Businesses that hire young and lower-skilled workers are also starting to put a ceiling on the work week of below 30 hours. These firms are the new "29ers." Part-time workers don't have to be offered insurance under ObamaCare. WSJ

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Past Issue

How the Donkey learned to Tax & Spend

The donkey in the self-help section of the bookstore, looking over the recent volumes “SPEND” and one on “TAX” says to the clerk, “I’ll take both.” –After Jerry Holbert | Boston Herald.

Hordes of Frightened people … stranded without plumbing . . . no electricity . . . no elevators . . . some standing at the railing as it they want to dive into the Gulf of Mexico. [At least that would be cleaner than the sewage backing up into your room.]

Is Congress running the Carnival Cruise Lines now? –Rob Rogers | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Ryan Herche: As a newly elected school board member, I attended a three-day conference hosted by the California School Boards Association for the first time last month. The event serves as a training of sorts for new members.

I was eager to receive my school board "training," but after about two hours in attendance, my excitement quickly turned into disbelief as nearly every panelist presented information on how to raise taxes during lean economic times. As a matter of fact, the conference featured five different sessions on how to raise taxes.

Considering California's volatile state and slow economic recovery I was shocked to see there wasn't one workshop on how to save parents money, or any workshop that mirrors what millions of Californians are doing right now in response to these hard times: doing a little more with a little bit less.

The conference felt more like brainwashing. Before I was elected, I promised my constituents I would keep an open mind and duly consider everything set before me. I could not see that same willingness to appreciate a different perspective at this conference. All I could see was an insatiable desire to raise taxes.

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