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Taxed to the Point of No Recovery; France Plans Tougher "Exit Tax" In a feudal as well as futile attempt to keep wealthy French citizens from leaving the country, France hikes the "Exit Tax" on transfers of wealth to outside of France. They also lower the base and increase the number of things on which the tax applies. According to a "pay-walled" article on Le Monde of which I can only read a part …
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SongFacts comments on Stuck In The Middle With You by Stealers Wheel. Also known simply as "Stuck In The Middle", this Stealers Wheel classic was co-written by the group’s guitarist Gerry Rafferty and keyboard player Joe Egan. In his obituary of Rafferty for the January 5, 2011 issue of the Daily Telegraph , Martin Chilton said of this song that it was "Written as a parody of Bob Dylan’s paranoia, it ridiculed a music industry cocktail party, with the lyrics: ‘Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you.’ To Rafferty’s utter disbelief his parody, composed as little more than a joke but with a catchy pop arrangement, struck gold, selling more than a million copies.
I found out about the above rejection from a Washington State Actuary who writes … Hello Mish My dad introduced me to your blog a few years ago and I enjoy all your posts. In all the crazy nonsense that gets said today, I know I can come to your blog and find some common-sense thinking.
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A few snips from the New York Times article Rules to Require Equal Coverage for Mental Ills will explain. The Obama administration on Friday will complete a generation-long effort to require insurers to cover care for mental health and addiction just like physical illnesses when it issues long-awaited regulations defining parity in benefits and treatment