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Stephanie Kelton: Biden can go bigger, but they must understand MMT & inflation.

Stephanie Kelton: Biden & Progressives can go bigger, but they must understand MMT & inflation

I read “Biden Can Go Bigger and Not ‘Pay for It’ the Old Way” by Economics Professor and MMT advocate Stephanie Kelton. It is an important read that we need to understand. Stephanie Kelton hits the nail on the head. See full episodes here. Ironically Professor Kelton shared some concerns with former...

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April 7, 2021

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PA-Sen: “He’s an a**hole, damnit”

Friendly reminder: retiring U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R. PA) is still an asshole and will not be missed: Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania on Thursday blocked a bill meant to bar private debt collectors from seizing checks issued as part of the recent stimulus bill. The law that Toomey...

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March 19, 2021

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Jen Psaki lost the perfect opportunity to sock it to Texas for its false independence

Jen Psaki should've answered: Texas wanted a US Government free grid. Let the private sector pay.

A reporter asked Jen Psaki if Texas can use the America Rescue Plan to pay to weatherize their electric grid. I wish she had chosen a different answer. Jen Psaki lost an opportunity to rib Texas See full episodes here. A reporter asked Jen Psaki if the Texas Speaker of the Texas...

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March 13, 2021

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The Christophe de Margerie makes history in the Arctic; Jet stream collapse leads to mass starvation

The “Arctic is already under such threat from so many angles, and while production there is expensive, it is also very, very high risk. It requires absolutely the strongest levels of global oversight.” Phoebe Barnard, Professor at Washington’s Conservation Biology Institute Putin’s Russia made history today when the Christophe de Margerie, the enormous...

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February 16, 2021

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Poll: majority want Trump convicted in 2nd impeachment, despite 'GQP'

A majority of people polled want Trump convicted in the upcoming Senate impeachment trial, as pressure is being applied to GOP senators. A Republican group plans to run ads in the home states of nearly two dozen GOP senators during next week’s impeachment trial, pressuring them to vote to convict...

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February 6, 2021

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Trump’s trashing of the climate is more severe than previously thought, says Biden climate team.

A senior Biden climate team transition official alerted E&E News that the damage Trump and his fossil fuel grifters (that have held power over the agencies tasked with protecting the climate system) have been successful in hollowing out the EPA of staff and resources at a time when the “ability to...

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January 15, 2021

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Trump Vetoed the NDAA to Protect His Shell Companies

Taggan Goddard of Political Wire has an interesting theory about why Trump decided to veto the National Defense Appropriation Act (NDAA): Buried in its 4500+ pages is something called the Corporate Transparency Act (link is to the original stand-alone House version). According to Goddard (behind a paywall) this puts Trump...

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December 28, 2020

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Russian hacking group APT29, or Cozy Bear, is behind new hacks of US Treasury and Commerce

“The hack is seen as so significant that a National Security Council meeting was held at the White House on Saturday over it, according to Reuters.” Because having at Commerce, a former head of a bank known for Russian money laundering in Cyprus and a Treasury head who approved lifting financial...

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December 14, 2020

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Remember that Janet Yellen as Treasury secretary can address some of the Trump sweetheart deals

Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen will be nominated as Treasury Secretary. Remember that Trump though Mnuchin lifted some Russian sanctions during the Mueller investigation on one Russian oligarch in particular, affecting steel and aluminum tariffs. Then there was Mnuchin’s stonewalling during the impeachment. x https://t.co/drXVFNCBYs— Claudia Sahm GET MORE MONEY...

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November 23, 2020

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The vindictive disabled canard could tank the economy in the next 11 weeks #TrumpDepression

It moves… there will still be monkey business even as one good sign has been put into place: x Good evening, one and all. Please note that the FAA has restricted the airspace around Wilmington, Delaware, also known as the location of @JoeBiden. You know, similar to how they restrict the air...

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November 5, 2020

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ME-Sen: “How my former boss Susan Collins (R) broke my heart – and lost my support”

A former member of U.S. Senator Susan Collins’ (R. ME) staff released a very compelling op-ed piece in the Press Herald where she talks about how she was date raped by her boyfriend and another man. She explains how getting her job working Collins helped her cope and move on...

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October 30, 2020

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the real SARs: Suspicious Activity Reports

Prior to this reporting, very few SARs had ever been revealed. The FinCEN Files encompass more than 2,100. Will there be folks taking the easy way out after these revelations, but more importantly, will this have an effect on future prosecutions that might even involve Trump and his minions, because...

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September 21, 2020

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Trump accuses Dems of massive disinformation campaign as others map massive Trumpian corruption

So the guy who says nearly any kind of malarkey accuses his opposition of “massive disinformation”. Firehose of gaslight projected on an entire nation. x #SundayThoughts: The word “trumpery” appeared in the 15th century with the meanings “deceit” or “fraud”. 100 years later, it was being applied to objects of...

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September 6, 2020

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Activism help persuades Deutsche Bank to promptly end the financing of tar sand and Arctic projects.

Good news for the Arctic, and the entire planet, as Deutsche Bank announced that they were ending financing fossil fuel projects at the tar sands in Alberta, and projects of fossil fuel extraction in the Arctic. Burning the filthy dirty tar sands for energy is far worse than crude oil. The...

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August 1, 2020

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Joe Biden Builds Momentum & Public Support For His Buy American Plan

Received this e-mail from former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign: Make no mistake: America has been knocked down. The unemployment rate is higher than it was in the Great Recession. Millions have lost jobs, hours, pay, health care, or the small business they started, through no fault of their...

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July 10, 2020

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Trump continued to praise Putin after discovering Russia put bounties on U.S. soldiers' heads

So you’ve no doubt seen this explosive New York Times story about Donald Trump’s treachery, fecklessness, and sickening lack of patriotism. If not, here’s the gist: American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan — including...

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June 27, 2020

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Could we get a list of all the drugs IMPOTUS* currently takes? Biden still nationally leads Trump

After he leaves office, Trump will try to stonewall a prosecution of him but eventually he will lie to prosecutors — he won’t be able to help himself. Adam Schiff says Trump faces “real prospect of jail time” after leaving office” (CNN) Poll of the week: A new Marquette Law School poll finds...

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May 18, 2020

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AZ-Sen: Martha McSally (R) Skipped Coronavirus Hearing To Hang Out With Trump On Air Force One

Kudos to Dan Desai Martin at The American independent for highlighting this: Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) did not attend a Senate hearing Tuesday on the federal government's coronavirus response so she could take a trip on Air Force One with Donald Trump. The Senate Banking Committee, of which McSally is...

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May 11, 2020

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Trump's name will be printed on paper stimulus checks, likely slowing their arrival

Because it’s far more important to give Donald J. Trump credit for doling out cash than to stimulate a cratered economy ASAP, we get this execrable nonsense. The Washington Post: The Treasury Department has ordered President Trump’s name be printed on stimulus checks the Internal Revenue Service is rushing to send...

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April 15, 2020

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a Second task force will run afoul of the Second COVID wave in a laugher of an economic recovery

President Donald Trump is preparing to announce a second coronavirus task force solely focused on reopening the nation's economy, multiple sources told CNN. This now seems to be a trial balloon at present. Making Arthur Laffer the economic recovery Czar could signal the depth of the coming recession. OTOH dinner napkins will do double...

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April 9, 2020

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Trump wants his name to appear on your CARES check

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Like the President Trump’s Guidelines for America, Trump wants it to appear like he personally disbursed the US Treasury’s money to you. Because you will vote for his re-election as if you are grateful to Mango Mussolini. How absurd has this example of bad capitalist brand management become. x Normally, a...

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March 28, 2020

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Let's all congratulate Chuck Schumer for preventing Trump from getting bailout funds

This is the best news I’ve heard since the Trumpian coronavirus shitshow started. (Question for lexicographers: Is shitshow one word, two words, or hyphenated? I’m really going to need to know this going forward. I plan to use it a lot, and for some reason my AP Stylebook isn’t giving...

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March 26, 2020

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the only map Trump may care about in the COVID-19 crisis is nearly four years old

Jake Tapper: “It’s not all bad news”. There’s no way of knowing the false sense of security that Trump’s declaration created one month ago, that “15 cases will soon be zero”. The Trump goal remains reelection, if only to evade indictment, and the key is trying to resurrect the economy,...

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March 25, 2020

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Schumer & Democrats not capitulating to McConnell & Republican's corporate stimulus bill.

Minority Leader Chuck Schumer went to the door and slammed Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for a corporate stimulus Republican bill and partisan screech. x x YouTube Video Politico reports the following. AsSenate Democrats went to the floor Sunday night to vote — the first time they’dbeen there in days —...

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March 23, 2020

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The Immorality of McConnell's “Fiscal Stimilus” Plan. Hopeful Sign That Democrats Understand This.

You all have heard by now that Moscow Mitch proved once again how immoral he is with his proposed fraud of a “fiscal stimilus” plan. We all knew this was coming because he locked Democrats out of any negotiations on his scheme to enrich corporations while a pandemic rages across...

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March 23, 2020

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Trump won't say he'll turn down bailouts for his hotels, but he will commit to endless whining

Oh, look! It’s the actual president of the United States turning a worldwide pandemic into a personal grievance session! (Second tweet) x REPORTER: Will you commit that no money from the emergency stimulus bill will go to your own properties? TRUMP: “I have no idea what they're talking about. Everything...

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March 23, 2020

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“Take 2 Tax-Cuts, Rollback Regulations & Call Me In The Morning!” COVID-19 as excuse for profit

“We are in the midst of a crisis where people are literally having to skip work and may miss paychecks or face medical debt” because of coronavirus, said Robert Hockett, a professor at Cornell University who has advised Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on economic policy. “The...

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March 11, 2020

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Trump pulls nomination because she's neither white/male, and she can answer questions about Stone

The cover-up continues as shenanigans abound. Jessie Liu is a PoC Republican, including service on the transition committee, but she might know too much about things like the Michael Flynn and Erik Prince prosecutions, as well as the Roger Stone case. x MORE: Per a source familiar, Liu was expecting to stay...

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February 12, 2020

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banksters and gangsters: The Donald's mafia state squanders decency

There’s squandering decency and then there’s squandering democracy. Trump moves the US toward a post-Soviet satellite autocracy, currently in a HR reign of terror against impeachment witnesses. Expect a Senate subpoena for the whistleblower. (Thread) Mafia States Each of Trump's outrageous actions push us one step closer to what Hungarian...

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February 8, 2020

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I'm Tired of Some Democrats Not Wanting To Face The Corrupting Influence Of Money In Politics.

It’s bad enough that there are Democratic politicians who argue that large campaign contributions do not affect their policy prescriptions, but Zach Carter of Huffington Post points out an essential truth I have observed with regards to more than a few Democratic voters. They simply do not want to face...

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December 21, 2019

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Evil Corp is of course, a Russian cyber-crime organization – Trump lifted sanctions on its companies

Surprising that it’s not connected to the Shreks’ company, “Fraud Guarantee”, and yet sanctions got removed from related Russian companies. Individual-1 Trump obeys his masters, even if there are a lot of folks with similar names. Lavrov may have ordered Trump to *remove immediately* three Russian ‘companies’ connected with Evil...

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December 15, 2019

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“Trump is the war room”

DUI poster-child and WH Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham declared that the reason that Florida Man didn’t need an impeachment War Room was because he was one. So much disinformation to come and Steve Bannon is grifting from it. Kushner is more likely running the war room operation. Mr. Trump’s team has...

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November 4, 2019

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Trump still vaguely threatening sanctions on Turkey, how empty are they?

Is sanctioning Turkey a kind of virtue signaling or is the Trump administration prepping the ground to lift Russian sanctions? In case you forgot that there was a monstrous steel imports tariff on Turkey that Trump promptly rescinded, because it’s virtuous to double a tariff then reduce it by 50%...

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October 14, 2019

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Whistleblower part Deux: IRS Inspector General to investigate Trump taxes

Slowly we turn, step by step. x The other whistleblower: Trump taxes to be investigated by Treasury Department inspector general https://t.co/3xWC9FioQY— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 4, 2019 The inspector general of the United States Treasury Department said on Friday that it will review the handling of President Donald Trump’s taxes....

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October 4, 2019

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Daily Beast: Moscow Mitch Helped Out Rusal By Stealing From Coal Miners.

Moscow MItch is certainly covered in something dirty, but it ain’t coal dust from helping coal miners. From Erin Banco of The Daily Beast: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell last month blocked a measure that would have used Treasury Department funds marked for Appalachian development to help pay for coal...

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September 10, 2019

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Ted Cruz urges White House to unilaterally cut taxes for the ultra-wealthy

We’re already running huge deficits during flush times for the U.S. economy — contrary to common sense and the advice of every reputable economist on the planet — but that shouldn’t stop us from delivering even more windfalls for the super-rich! Right? That’s what Ted Cruz seems to think, anyway. ...

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August 3, 2019

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New Trump appointee spread multiple ugly conspiracy theories about Obama

Well, so did Trump, of course, and he’s allegedly president. Apparently, Monica Crowley has a penchant for saying Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim. You know, the usual. Totally normal, folks. Totally, totally normal. CNN: Monica Crowley, who was appointed by Trump last week as assistant treasury secretary for public...

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July 25, 2019

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NYT: Deutsche bank employees flagged 'suspicious activity' in Trump's and Kushner's accounts

Oof. So much smoke — everywhere. Maybe Trump needs to rake his offices to prevent these wildfires from spreading. The New York Times: Anti-money laundering specialists at Deutsche Bank recommended in 2016 and 2017 that multiple transactions involving legal entities controlled by Donald J. Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, be...

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May 19, 2019

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Sadly, I think Lawrence O'Donnell finally missed one.

In one sense, it’s actually a pretty good thing that I’m practically a “shut in.” Every night, from 6-8 pm PDT, my dance card is full. From 6-7 it’s the national treasure that is Rachel Maddow, and from 7-8, it’s Lawrence O’Donnell, the only one in cable news that can run...

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April 12, 2019

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It's getting worse: Average tax refund now down 17 percent

The last we heard on the subject, the average American’s tax refund was off 8.7 percent from last year, and people thought that augured poorly for Republicans. Today, the news is even worse for the Grand Old Pity Party. According to the IRS, the average refund so far this tax...

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February 23, 2019

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A word (actually quite a few) about obstinance.

obstinance – the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome. mulishness, obstinacy, stubbornness. intractability, intractableness – the trait of being hard to influence or control. 2. obstinance – resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires. The only thing that’s missing from the above description is a picture of The Pampers President...

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January 16, 2019

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Russian state TV: 'Trump is ours again,' Americans are 'losers'

Julia Davis, an expert on Russian propaganda and creator of the Russian Media Monitor, does yeoman’s work in keeping the Western world apprised of Russia’s sometimes shifting attitudes toward their addlepated puppet. Sometimes it looks like he might turn into Chucky, but lately he’s more like Mortimer Snerd with all the varnished stripped off...

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December 21, 2018

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The murder that could change US history

Keep an eye on this. The US Senate is preparing to hold a vote on actually taking concrete action against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over Kreepy Kushners newest kash kow, Inglorious MBS, over the murder of journalist and permanent US resident Jamal Khashoggi. besides the importance of this country...

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December 12, 2018

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The last time unemployment was this low, our Democratic president balanced the budget

Mitch McConnell probably thought he was being very clever, waiting almost a full year after the passage of the Republican tax scam to blame the resultant budget hole on an 83-year-old program. Yes, the public has a short memory, but if the GOP succeeds in stripping them of their Social Security...

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October 18, 2018

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Democrats proven right—again—on tax cut windfall for the rich

Campaign Action During the run-up to the passage of the “Republican Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” late last year, one technical paper from the Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Analysis suddenly went missing. Why “Distributing the Corporate Income Tax: Revised U.S. Treasury Methodology” alone among the office’s four-decade online archive of...

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March 5, 2018