{"id":20557,"date":"2011-03-25T11:30:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/25\/unblogged-bits-fri-25-mar-11-1130.html"},"modified":"2011-03-25T11:30:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T17:30:50","slug":"unblogged-bits-fri-25-mar-11-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/25\/unblogged-bits-fri-25-mar-11-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Fri. 25-Mar-11 1130)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. G.E.\u2019s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether – NYTimes.com<\/a> – As an extension of the discussion earlier this week about corporations and taxes. Looking at GE in particular shows areas where gameplaying with tax laws (or controlling what laws are actually on the books) lead to benefits to the company’s shareholders, but not to the nation (except for yacht manufacturers). I’m not against corporate profits, but I also don’t see them as the highest good.<\/li>\n
  2. Triangle Fire: A Half-Hour of Horror – NYTimes.com<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. It Could Happen Here – NYTimes.com<\/a> – Well, thank goodness we avoided such a nanny-state meddling-government business-unfriendly regulation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. G.E.\u2019s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether – NYTimes.com – As an extension of the discussion earlier this week about corporations and taxes. Looking at GE in particular shows areas where gameplaying with tax laws (or controlling what laws … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Fri. 25-Mar-11 1130)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27349,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/10\/making-income-taxes-easyer.html","url_meta":{"origin":20557,"position":0},"title":"Making income taxes easy(er)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Apr-12 7:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While I am a very pleased customer of Intuit for doing my current taxes (since they make the process 1\/10 the effort of paper forms), their political pressuring in this case is despicable (if economically understandable) -- similar to arguments by politicians that the NWS should only provide data to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17124,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/15\/unblogged-bits-for-thu-15-apr-2010-201am.html","url_meta":{"origin":20557,"position":1},"title":"Unblogged Bits for Thu, 15 Apr 2010, 2:01AM","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Apr-10 12:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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