Most/Least Tax Friendly
Interesting. According to Money, Vermont is the least tax friendly state:
That’s a far cry from Vermont whose residents pay 14.1 percent of their income to state and local taxes.
Whereas Alaska is the most friendly:
Alaskan residents don’t have to pay income or state sales tax. They even get tax refunds from the government because of the excess revenue it collects from companies extracting oil from the state. Overall, residents’ state and local tax burden comes to 6.6 percent of their income.
$7M A Month For Failure
Money –
Struggling Ford Motor Co., which posted a record $12.7 billion net loss in 2006, gave its new CEO Alan Mulally $28 million for four months on the job, according to the company’s proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday.
Let’s pretend for a minute that someone has an idea that can turn Ford around. Think they would get that fat a paycheck?
Snippets Of Brave New War
For those of you who can not wait until the April 27’th for John Robb’s upcoming book, here is a chapter excerpt, here is the Table of Contents excerpt, and here is the Index excerpt.
From the looks of it, this book is going to be exactly what it should be.
San Francisco Trip – April 11-15
Working hard on a brief I will be presenting in San Francisco to a panel of top tier academics on the future of Private Military Corporations between April 11 – April 15. Looking to have a face to face with anyone interested in the area (food is on me).
Tamil Tiger Air Force
CBC –
Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels used a light plane to bomb a Sri Lankan air force base in the outskirts of the capital Colombo on Monday, military officials said.
Slowly but surely smaller and smaller groups are being empowered.
Phil has more.