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    • 26 Ratings
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    Seeing Less Luxury is NOT Bearing More Burden

    OCTOBER 21, 2011 11:53AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: job creators, having enough, less luxury, luxury, opulence, super-rich, taxing the wealthy, tax the wealthy, taxing the rich, tax the rich, redistributing burden, redistributing wealth, redistributing taxes, tax burden, burden, bearing burden, bearing the burden, bearing a burden, taxing, taxation, politics

    • 0 Ratings
    • 263 Views
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    The Weight of Listening

    MARCH 10, 2011 2:03PM

    By Brie Walter


    Topics: family, tolerance, kindness, weight of words, weight, creative non-fiction, artful conversations, words, burden, awkward moments, social inadequacies, listening

    • 0 Ratings
    • 703 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    "Jesus is Not Pharaoh"

    FEBRUARY 20, 2011 11:59AM

    By Dave Scriven


    Topics: belief/religion, jesus, bible, burden, head held high, yoke, amazing grace, john newton, slavery

    • 15 Ratings
    • 590 Views
    • 24 Comments
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    Honesty in our Spending Priorities

    NOVEMBER 15, 2010 7:28AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: politics, tax breaks, tax cuts, bush tax cuts, sunset, sunset provision, expire, expiring, meet the press, john mccain, david gregory, alan greenspan, pay for, pay for themselves, wealthy, middle class, transparency, honesty, yacht, 2010, 2012, tea party, tea partiers, republicans, democrats, change, shift, people's business, self-reliant, unwanted spending, unnecessary spending, deficit, debt, fiscal responsibility, fiscal reform, burden, yet another criminally horrendous tax, tax act, deceptive, misleading

    • 21 Ratings
    • 1012 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    Paying for Tax Cuts for the Wealthy

    NOVEMBER 14, 2010 6:14PM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: shell game, burden, fiscal reform, fiscal responsibility, debt, deficit, unnecessary spending, unwanted spending, self-reliant, people's business, shift, change, democrats, republicans, tea partiers, tea party, 2012, 2010, middle class, wealthy, pay for themselves, pay for, alan greenspan, david gregory, john mccain, meet the press, expiring, expire, sunset provision, sunset, bush tax cuts, tax cuts, tax breaks, politics

    • 6 Ratings
    • 555 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    The Burden of Mental Illness

    AUGUST 1, 2010 6:35AM

    By Gerri Luce


    Topics: mental illness, gerri luce, burden, honesty, health

    • 0 Ratings
    • 360 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    "Not For Sale At Any Price" - Ross Perot

    JUNE 3, 2010 2:22PM

    By NASAcrew


    Topics: ross perot, save deficit, federal deficit, trillion, income taxes, debt, trickle, reform, entitlement programs, medicaid, medicare, insurance, salary, wages, self-employment, income, premium, social security, lobbyist, lovving, special interests, representatives, japanese, burden, congress, white house, house of representatives, campaigns, republicans, democrates, influence, russian, cold war, spies, justice department, us attorney, armed forces, government, military, vice president, ethics, labor, sucking sound, nafta, children, taxes to pay interest

    • 36 Ratings
    • 2429 Views
    • 35 Comments
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    do I describe a rock?

    MAY 5, 2010 10:15AM

    By Greg Correll


    Topics: rock, weight, burden, guilt, injury, pain, scars, memory, simple writing, fading light, the compromises of age, imperfect world, accepting anger, the triumph of faulty love

    • 7 Ratings
    • 398 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    (hope)

    MARCH 16, 2010 10:13AM

    By dirndl skirt


    Topics: poetry, backpack, burden, spring

    • 0 Ratings
    • 342 Views
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    "An Unfamiliar Voice"

    AUGUST 14, 2009 12:26PM

    By Dave Scriven


    Topics: bricks, burden, bible, jesus, belief and religion

    • 18 Ratings
    • 2695 Views
    • 32 Comments
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    Redistributing Burden

    OCTOBER 30, 2008 6:19AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: tax fairness, regressive tax, taxation, taxes, tax, income redistribution, redistribution of burden, redistribution of wealth, redistribution, food, health care, basic needs, needs, burden, wealth, economy, politics

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