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	<title>Sheila Kennedy &#187; taxes</title>
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		<title>The Older I Get, the Less I Understand&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/12/the-older-i-get-the-less-i-understand/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/12/the-older-i-get-the-less-i-understand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[House GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax increase]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Final week is over, grades are in, and I&#8217;ve had more time to read the news. That&#8217;s obviously a mixed blessing. There are so many things I just don&#8217;t understand. There&#8217;s a toaster that embosses the face of Jesus on each piece of bread as it toasts. It is evidently selling briskly. There&#8217;s Newt Gingrich. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Not! Did So!</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/did-not-did-so/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/did-not-did-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, budget battles. This morning&#8217;s Star detailed the back and forth political arguments about whether the Ballard Administration actually made the budget cuts the mayor promised during his campaign. Their independent analysis amounted to: who knows? That&#8217;s not a criticism of the reporters&#8211;it&#8217;s a reflection of the games public managers play. This actually began back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Free Rider Problem</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/the-free-rider-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/the-free-rider-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fair share]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free rider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I received my copy of PA Times&#8211;a publication that is admittedly unlikely to be on the bookshelves of those who read this blog. It&#8217;s issued by the Association for Public Administration, and it has articles that appeal primarily to geeks like me who study how governments work. The article that caught my attention&#8211;and raised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning from Experience</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/08/learning-from-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/08/learning-from-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job creation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I have harped on the dismaying extent to which our policymakers legislate on the basis of ideology rather than evidence, but I want  to revisit that theme again today. Several people have commented on my recent post/IBJ column about the drug war&#8211;and the enormous sums we continue to spend (in a time of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Debt and Taxes</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/07/of-debt-and-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/07/of-debt-and-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civilization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt ceiling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1743</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t written about the congressional impasse (polite word for food fight) over the debt ceiling, because really, what could I say that hasn&#8217;t been said many times by many people? But being here in Split, surrounded by evidence that human efforts at civilization have persisted over thousands of years, I&#8217;ve grudgingly recognized that our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts for the Holiday Weekend</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/07/thoughts-for-the-holiday-weekend/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/07/thoughts-for-the-holiday-weekend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[4th of July]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American observations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the 4th of July holiday weekend, and most of us are planning cookouts, fireworks celebrations and the like. In my house, we&#8217;ve been getting ready for a long-planned European trip&#8211;giving instructions to the graduate student who has graciously agreed to &#8220;house sit,&#8221; making sure our packing list is complete, etc. But it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something Old, Something New&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/04/something-old-something-new/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/04/something-old-something-new/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disabled]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smoke and mirrors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[utility rates]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1473</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading the news lately, I was reminded of the old rhyme for brides: &#8220;Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue&#8221; Something old? This morning&#8217;s Star had a story about the nearly three million dollars in fees being paid by the Ballard Administration for services in connection with the ill-conceived fifty year lease of Indianapolis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea and No Sympathy</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/04/tea-and-no-sympathy/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/04/tea-and-no-sympathy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1409</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an old joke that begins &#8220;Why tax the rich?&#8221; Answer: because that&#8217;s where the money is. For some reason, the current crop of Tea Party Republicans in Congress continue to look for money in all the wrong places. Their insistence on spending cuts not only ignores basic economics&#8211;the sorts of cuts they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Citizens</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/03/good-citizens/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/03/good-citizens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education / Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constitutional literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[good citizen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[good government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been asked to address students at an Indiana High School on &#8220;Good Government Day.&#8221; My assignment was to describe to them the attributes of a good citizen. Here&#8217;s what I plan to tell them. (Constructive criticism is welcome!) Good governments require good citizens. If there is one thing that history has taught us, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debt and Taxes</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/02/debt-and-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/02/debt-and-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It doesn&#8217;t take long for my students to learn that &#8220;it depends&#8221; is almost always the right answer to policy questions. The world is complicated, and questions about how government should operate are rarely black or white. In an excellent column about debt and taxes, Morton Marcus makes precisely that point. Debt incurred in order [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Part of &#8220;Everyone&#8221; Doesn&#8217;t Sarah Palin Understand?</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/02/what-part-of-everyone-doesnt-sarah-palin-understand/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/02/what-part-of-everyone-doesnt-sarah-palin-understand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chutzpah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sacrifice]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1265</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the Huffington Post, Sarah Palin weighed in on the Wisconsin protests in a Friday night posting on her Facebook page. In the posting addressed to &#8220;union brothers and sisters&#8221; (cough, cough), Palin says Wisconsin taxpayers shouldn&#8217;t be asked to pay for benefits &#8220;that are not sustainable.&#8221; She says &#8220;real solidarity means everyone being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reaganism Triumphant</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/02/reaganism-triumphant/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/02/reaganism-triumphant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reaganism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1263</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, I made my usual mistake, and listened to the news. The protests in Wisconsin&#8211;and to a lesser extent, Ohio&#8211;triggered by efforts to blame fiscal shortages on people who work for government. A story about a southern town that has stopped making pension payments to retired police officers and firefighters, because the town &#8220;ran [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Class Warfare</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/02/class-warfare/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/02/class-warfare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[class warfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redistribution]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1260</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons I left the GOP was impatience with party rhetoric equating taxes with theft. It seems to have become a Republican article of faith that it is “immoral” to tax people for the services they receive, let alone for purposes of redistribution (i.e., using tax dollars to help poor folks). Those who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sanity And Taxes</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/11/sanity-and-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/11/sanity-and-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 17:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rally to Restore Sanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1060</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, fifty-five assorted residents of Indianapolis boarded a chartered bus and headed to Washington, D.C. for the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert “Rally for Sanity.”  It was a pretty diverse group—college students and retirees, black and white, varying religions and political parties—but we all wanted to demonstrate that the cable shouters, insult-throwers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defining Our Terms</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/05/defining-our-terms-2/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/05/defining-our-terms-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 01:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transparency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1019</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anti-tax fervor has become a defining aspect of American politics—so much so, that here in Indiana we are getting ready to enshrine a so-called “property tax cap” in the state’s Constitution. (The existing law imposing such a cap is evidently considered inadequate.)  Those of us who question the wisdom of such a measure are often [...]]]></description>
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