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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

TAX THOUGHTS ON TAX DAY ... WHY WE PAY TAXES

The lighter side of why we pay taxes (and have regulations) ...

- Mark

Posted by Mark A. Martinez at 7:00 PM

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C-SPAN Interview: I introduce some of the stories and concepts from my book The Myth of the Free Market during this 2013 C-SPAN interview.

KGET 17 News (NBC) Political Analyst: As a 17 News' political analyst, I have done numerous news segments discussing our political scene over the years.

Book Promo Interview: I discuss my book just after it was released in 2009.

NPR / San Joaquin Valley: NPR / Quality of Life host Terry Phillips and I discuss my book, 2009.

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CALIFORNIA LAKES ... BEFORE AND AFTER PICTURES
WHY WE NEED GUN CONTROL ... AND WHY RONALD REAGAN WOULD AGREE
FOX NEWS' "CLOWN CAR OF PUNDITRY" HITS A NEW LOW IN DOUBLE STANDARDS, AGAIN
OUR ALICE IN WONDERLAND ECONOMY
CORPORATE AMERICA'S BLAME GAME
FEAR ... SOME PERSPECTIVE
WEEKEND READING (Nov. 6, 2015)
THE McCARTHY-PHILLIPS DEBATE
BUNKER MENTALITY
THE FUTURE OF CARS, AND TRANSPORTATION

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BARACK OBAMA

" ... The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of middle-class security all bear the union label."

HARRY S. TRUMAN

"I never did give them hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."

WOODROW WILSON

"I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something."

JOHN F. KENNEDY

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic."

THOMAS JEFFERSON

"He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors."

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I've made."

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" ... while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings."

JOHN M. KEYNES

"I do not know which makes a man more conservative--to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past."

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