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  • Putting April 15 in perspective

    Putting April 15 in perspective

    April 12, 2002 By Fred Gaboury

    The IRS estimates that between one and two million Americans are using offshore credit card accounts to avoid paying taxes.

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  • Tax Day: Big brother is watching

    Tax Day: Big brother is watching

    April 12, 2002

    As this is written, April 15 – and with it Income Tax Day – is only a week away and offers another opportunity to ask, “who pays” and to look at the way the government enforces...

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  • Navy attacks peaceful protest in Vieques

    Navy attacks peaceful protest in Vieques

    April 12, 2002

    The U.S. Navy attacked peaceful protestors outside the fenced in bombing zone with tear gas and rubber bullets April 6, in Vieques, Puerto Rico. While the Navy claims that they acted in response to rock throwing,...

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  • ARA founded in Illinois

    ARA founded in Illinois

    April 12, 2002 By Fred Gaboury

    CHICAGO – Although her e-mail is still sent to the Illinois State Council of Senior Citizens, Connie Engholm is now the executive director of the Illinois Alliance of Retired Americans (IARA).

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  • Bush ergonomic plan a phony

    Bush ergonomic plan a phony

    April 12, 2002

    AFL-CIO President John Sweeney denounced the workplace safety policy announced by the Bush administration on April 5 as a “weak and unenforceable ‘plan’” that offers workers no real protections against the nation’s biggest safety problem –...

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