Subject: Taxes

• Are Newspapers Pocketing Illegal Taxes?

  April 4, 2007

• Tax Troubles

  June 25, 2007

• Christmas in Key West

  November 7, 2007

• Weekly News Wrap - Super Tuesday, Money Laundering, Cuba Criticism and more

  February 8, 2008

• Pretty in the City – Blow Your Tax Rebate Out With a Bang

  April 18, 2008

• Does Bill Nelson Want to Raise Taxes on Your Alcohol?

  I was reading I Can Has Cheezburger in my RSS Reader when I saw this ad below all the LOLcats. Apparently, Sen. Bill Nelson wants to raise the taxes on my wine by 233 percent! The ad leads to the Freedom Work's website, where it explains "a massive new tax hike" to pay for health care, which also includes a 145 percent tax increase on a six-pack of beer and 19 percent on liquor. Those damn D.C. bastards, trying to price me out of getting ass-drunk every night! The plan comes out of the Senate F

  June 2, 2009

• Banana Republican - Transit Follies

  June 4, 2008

• Florida Supreme Court Takes Three Amendments Off the Ballot

  September 3, 2008

• Conservatives Want To Give Sarah Palin All Our Precious Sunshine

  Oh for the love of a secular female iteration of an Earth power God, it is Christmas Eve. Can we please keep the partisan bickering to arguing with your Republican uncle after copious amounts of egg nog? No, sir. The conservative blogosphere is nonstop. While this particular strained metaphor doesn't match the stupidity of yesterday's buzz about a column by a dean at Liberty University that compared American liberals to pagan baby sacrificers, it's still dumb.

  December 24, 2008

• Whoppers!

  September 4, 1991

• Killing Yourself Slowly with Cigarettes Will Remain Relatively Cheap

  Late last year, there was a bit of buzz that the long-proposed cigarette tax hike might come to fruition. Florida has some of the lowest cigarette taxes in the nation, but the idea of raising the tax a dollar per pack was struck down today in the state's special legislative session. Rep. Jim Waldman, a Democrat, proposed the taxes, but Republicans who apparently respect people's rights to fill their lungs with sweet, sweet nicotine more than, say, a woman's right to choose, balked at the idea.

  January 5, 2009

• Floridians Favor Some Sort of Legal Recognition for Gay Couples, Despite Banning Marriage in the Constitution

  It was pretty evident to anyone with basic reading comprehension skills that the part of Amendment 2 that read, "no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized," would ban civil unions in the Florida Constitution. Florida voters passed that Amendment at a rate of 62 percent. Ironically, according to a new Quinnipiac poll, Floridians favor some sort of substantial legal recognition of gay relationships by 62 percent; 27 per

  January 22, 2009

• Florida Probably Doesn't Want New Hampshire's Leftovers

  Considering most runners in the 2010 Senate race haven't held a position higher than congressman, it might behoove anyone with a stronger resumé to think about entering the fray, and what better job to have in your past when seeking a Senate seat than senator? Reportedly, former New Hampshire Sen. Bob Smith, who now lives in Sarasota, is at least thinking about throwing in his name. But the Buzz makes a good point in that "winning a statewide election in New Hampshire is akin to winning a count

  January 30, 2009

• The Owe Zone

  May 4, 1994

• Owe, Owe, Owe Your Boat

  June 8, 1995

• It's Only Money

  September 21, 1995

• Land of Opportunity

  December 28, 1995

• A Taxing Process

  December 28, 1995

• Tea Party Protests Make Less Sense than Pro Wrestling

  You know what never made sense to me? Back in the '90s, the WWF (now WWE) teamed up "The Million-Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase, a character who was a millionaire, with Irwin R. Schyster, AKA I.R.S., a tax man. Together they won three tag-team titles, but, dude, millionaires friggin' hate the IRS more than anything. Right? Why would a millionaire fight alongside some guy who taxes his income at 35 percent? You know what other tax-related subject makes even less sense to me? This tea bag bullshit. Conse

  April 15, 2009

• Beenie Man

  December 20, 2007

• Alex Daoud’s Election Day

  November 15, 2007

• Miami: Screwed Again

  July 26, 2007

• Axing the Property Tax

  March 15, 2007

• To IRS With Love

  May 27, 2004

• Prosperity One Step at a Time

  October 16, 2003

• Lost Sounds

  February 6, 2003

• Poor Miami: More Good Ideas

  December 12, 2002

• Busted!

  September 19, 2002

• BEST RESOURCE FOR RECENT ARRIVALS

  May 16, 2002

• Revenge of the Penny Tax

  August 17, 2000

• Best Politician Convicted In The Past Twelve Months

  May 11, 2000

• DeFede

  February 3, 2000

• The Deep Blue Greed

  February 3, 2000

• Whichever Way the Wind Blows

  April 9, 1998

• All Herald BrandsMart

  December 19, 1996

• As Nasty as They Can Possibly Be

  July 4, 1996

• Sweet Redemption

  June 26, 1996

• Won Way

  June 26, 1996

• You Say Cemetery, Miami Says Deadbeat

  May 23, 1996

• Letters

  March 28, 1996

• Letters

  January 18, 1996

• In the Dead of the Night

  August 17, 1995

• Castroneves Acquitted

  Two days after everyone paid taxes, and thousands protested this basic fact, one guy got off free on charges of evading his taxes. Indianapolis 500 and Dancing With The Stars champion Helio Castroneves was acquitted on tax evasion charges. Castroneves was charged last October with failing to report $5.5 million. The AP just reported that Castroneves, as well as his sister Kati and lawyer Alan Miller, were also acquitted.[AP: Indy driver Castroneves acquitted in tax case][Miami Herald: Castroneve

  April 17, 2009

• Charlie Crist's Lame Attempt To Distance Himself From Obama

  When Charlie Crist stood on stage with President Obama in February I wonder if Crist had any idea that he'd actually be running for Senate. As a popular incumbent running for re-election the political risk would be lessened. Well, the risk of standing with a popular, newly elected president who won your state while supporting an economic program your state desperately needs is only a risk when you have to come face to face with the hard-liners in your own party. Now

  May 21, 2009

• Helio Castroneves Strikes Back

  May 28, 2009

• Club for Growth Calls Crist a Closet Communist

  Club for Growth, a fiscally conservative group that helped push Sen. Arlen Specter into the Democratic Party with the threat of a primary challenge, sure does not like Gov. Charlie Crist. Now that ol' Arlen is gone from the party, Crist might be the group's number one GOP target. This month, Club for Growth has distributed a lot of press releases blasting our silver-haired gov. Apparently being a group that prefers hyperbole over considered discourse, Club for Growth has gone and nominated

  June 9, 2009

• Feds Indict Miami Man Who Tried To Steal $14 Trillion from the IRS

  They don't call Marlon T. Moore "X-Large" for nothing. Back in December 2007, Moore, a 38-year-old Miami resident, walked out of the federal pen in Coleman, Florida after serving a six year sentence on felony money laundering charges as part of a cocaine smuggling ring. Soon after his release, Moore embarked upon a truly brilliant criminal enterprise: He did his taxes. It may not sound like much of a crime. But "X-Large" Moore -- one of several aliases he used, including Dammon Green and Tyrone

  June 15, 2009

• Time: Miami-Dade County Commission is "a Feckless, Corruption-Tainted Body"

  via MiamiDade.gov​The sun still shines. The beaches are still some of the best in the world. The weather, unfortunate for this time of year, is still the same as it ever was. All of those stereotypical things that draw people to call Florida home have gone more or less unchanged, so what's to blame for the first population decrease since World War II? Time magazine thinks it's the mismanagement of state and local elected officials that have led to unnecessary extra tax hikes. And guess wh

  September 3, 2009

• News Roundup

  Today is sentencing for five members of the Liberty City Six. Each could face up to 70 years in prison. [CBS4]Miami 21 got its first stamp of approval from the city commission Friday night. But there's still plenty of hoops the plan has to jump through before becoming official. [SFBJ]Say hello to Tropical Storm Fred. [NBCMiami]Cigarette sales in Florida are down 28 percent from last year, possibly as a result of the dollar-per-pack tax hike. That's good news for anti-smoking advocates,

  September 8, 2009

• Two-Thirds of Voters Have Negative Opinion of Mayor Alvarez, 46 Percent Support Recall

  Jonathan Postal Miami-Dade Mayor Alvarez and the County Commission have thrown sizable pay raises to staffers like they were life-vests on a sinking ship. They've simultaneously tossed funding to cultural efforts and other social programs overboard. That hasn't proven popular with voters. According to a new poll commissioned by Local 10 and conducted by Bendixen and Associates, key county leaders are facing high levels of negative opinion, with 46 percent of voters even going as far

  September 10, 2009