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...flatlined since the company acquired Compaq in 2002. AOL's merger with Time Warner (parent company of TIME) may have set a new standard of paired futility, erasing some 80% of the merged company's stock value. After the hype subsides, more often than not, investors wind up with tax write-offs...
Death and taxes are supposed to be life's only two certainties, but Rieko Saibara has cut the list in half. The Japanese artist depicted her successful battle with tax authorities in Dekirukana: Datsuzei (Daring Tax Evasion), a book that began as a magazine cartoon column in which she recounted her real-life adventures. These included testing a homemade radiological monitor at a nuclear power plant and working at a hostess bar, where her job was to stroke the fragile egos of lonely...
...Defense Department, in fact, has had a checkered history with cloak-and-dagger work. The Pentagon set up intelligence units in the early 1980s that were kept secret from Congress. They became rogue outfits, using tax dollars for questionable operations, to pay for expensive hotel rooms, first-class airline tickets and, in one instance, a hot-air balloon and a Rolls-Royce...
FOOTING THE BILL Tax dollars pay only for the swearing-in (about $3 million). Luckily, more than 100 corporations, lobbying groups and individuals have given $100,000 to $250,000 apiece to help pay the bills. For the cash, they get tickets to all the events--and, of course, access to some very powerful politicians. No wonder oil, telecom and banking companies are among the big donors...
...Rick Santorum, R-Pa., also pushed for the Senate Finance Committee to conduct an investigation of Ford, its funding and its tax-exempt status...