Tara called my XM radio show distressed about her debt. But unlike many people who complain about the bills they allowed to mount, much of her debt was not her fault. ...more

October 14, 2007

personal and corporate income taxes, the payroll tax for Social Security, and the estate and gift tax. These would be replaced by something called the FairTax, a 23 percent national retail sales tax on virtually everything you buy, including many things that are not presently taxed by state sales taxes. ...more

October 1, 2007

LAKE PLACID — It's still an unsolved mystery, what happened that night in 1997 when a call came to the Highlands County Sheriff's Office. Lt. John Chess recalls, dimly because it was 10 years ago. His recollection and the murder files, he says, don't match author John Bowe's book, "Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy." (Hardcover, 336 pages. Price: $25.95) But Chess agrees with the premise of the book, that indentured servitude certainly does exist today, because he's a veteran police officer. "This has been going on for years," Chess said. ...more

September 30, 2007