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  7 Key Tax Protests That Shook America

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  March 14, 2013

  Resisters have tried violence and politics, but the taxes keep rolling on.

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  Paul Ryan’s Budget: Something for Everyone (to Criticize)

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  March 13, 2013

  "The president promises big government and Ryan promises smaller big government,” a Cato Institute analyst says, while others say cuts are still too big.

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  The U.S. Tax System: How Did We Get Here? Pt. 2, the Middle Years

  By Mike Patton  |  March 12, 2013

  From the first U.S. default during the Revolutionary War to the first income tax during the Civil War to the 16th Amendment, taxes have been a source of contention.

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  The U.S. Tax System: How Did We Get Here? Pt. 1, the Early Years

  By Mike Patton  |  March 4, 2013

  In tax season 2013, a look back at the very beginnings of taxation in the U.S., and Americans' attitudes toward taxes.

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  IRAs: In General

  By Tax Facts Online  |  March 4, 2013

  Individual Retirement Accounts are highly popular tools for contributing funds that grow on a tax deferred basis. Depending on the type of IRA, the accumulation can be tax free.

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  U.S. Real Estate Looking Up but Emerging Markets Rising Even Higher: Cohen & Steers

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  February 27, 2013

  "Emerging markets not only make up a larger percentage of global GDP than a few years ago, but they have grown faster than developed markets," says Cohen & Steers' Jason Yablon.

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  SEC Budget Faces $108M Cut Under Sequester; House GOP Blasts SEC’s ‘Misplaced Priorities’

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  February 27, 2013

  Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee criticized the agency Tuesday for “repeatedly failing to fulfill any part of its mission.”

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  Houston, We Have a Spending Problem—News Analysis

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  February 25, 2013

  Across-the-board spending cuts set to begin this week are an opportunity to be embraced, not a horror to be avoided.

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  How First Trust’s Wesbury Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sequester

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  February 25, 2013

  The outspoken chief economist of First Trust Advisors is taking Nouriel Roubini, Bill Gross and others head on in his view of the sequester in a new outlook.

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  Sequestration Cuts Imminent; Government Shutdown Looms

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  February 25, 2013

  As the nation braced for the $85 billion in sequestration cuts to kick in on March 1, Joe Lieber of Washington Analysis laid out the “numerous tools available” to blunt sequestration’s impact.