The Most Outrageous Tax Of The Year

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Sat, 09/15/2012 - 10:21am

It just may become the latest outrage during a year of outrages. At the precise moment when the federal government finally delivers a modicum of justice and some economic relief to millions of homeowners victimized by the nation's largest banks, the government threatens to beat those victims over the head with a punitive old favorite revenue raiser; a tax on forgiven debt.

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