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Santelli: “All They’re After Is Your Bucks!”

from Zerohedge:

It seems that there are more than just tin-foil-hat-wearing fringe blogs that have decided to take up the truthiness hunt as CNBC’s Rick Santelli exposes the ‘fibbing’ in statistics that has become more than mainstream thinking. From the 35% ‘untruth’ of the Clinton-era tax cuts and wage rates (with no explcit wealth assessment and a total ignorance of inflation) to the 75% ‘untruth’ of the millionaires-and-billionaires tax when it’s really [...]

Chart: 84% Of Americans Don’t Think It’s Cool To Cheat On Tax Returns

by Mandi Woodruff

In this new study from the IRS the overwhelming majority (84%) said no one should be allowed to cheat on tax returns, but this year twice as many said a little fibbing is fine compared to the same survey issued in 2010.

In 2011, 8% said people can cheat “as much as possible” on their return if they can get away with it, while only 4% felt the same the year before. That’s not [...]