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Yep, all the money you earned during this time--over a quarter of your income--was turned over to the government in the form of taxes."Americans will pay more taxes in 2010 than they will spend on food, clothing and shelter combined," according to the Tax Foundation.
And by the way, if you are among the half of Americans who pay any income taxes, your 2009 income taxes are due in a few days.
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Monday, April 12, 2010
Happy Tax Freedom Day
POLL: 66% Say America Is Overtaxed
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Sixty-six percent (66%) believe that America is overtaxed. Only 25% disagree.
Amazingly, lower income voters are more likely than others to believe the nation is overtaxed.
When thinking about all the services provided by federal, state and local governments, 75% of voters nationwide say the average American should pay no more than 20% of their income in taxes. [Perfect: the amount Americans end up paying relative to the GDP regardless of the government's intentions: when raised by the our product production contracts until the 20% equilibrium is again attained. I.e., grow the pie - not the size of slices from it.]
[Note that the largest positive gap between the red line of revenues and the diagonal gray line representing linear taxation rate increase is right at 20%.
I.e., even internationally, the greatest rate of return on taxation shows time and again to be around 20% -- anything over that is retarding the economic growth that's being taxed.
If prosperity were truly the goal of our government it wouldn't tax above 20% - yet it does. Conclusion?]
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Agent Provocateur want to crash your Tea Party
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“WHO WE ARE, Crash The Tea Party style, is a lesson in Marxism 101: “A nationwide network of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents who are sick and tired of that loose affiliation of racists, homophobes, and morons; who constitute the fake grass-roots movement which calls itself “The Tea Party.”
But the game-plan is Crash the Tea Party’s most ominous part:
“We will act on behalf of the Tea Party in ways which exaggerate their least appealing qualities (misspelled protest signs, wild claims in TV interviews, etc.) to further distance them from mainstream America and damage the public’s opinion of them. We will also use the inside information that we have gained in order to disrupt and derail their plans.”
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U.S. eyes sales tax
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Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office acknowledged it’s 'studying' a value-added tax, also known as VAT...
I.e., it's not the spending - we don't tax enough...]
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Beware of a Value Added Tax
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White House economic adviser Paul Volcker’s suggestion that Congress enact a “value added tax” (VAT) has furthered speculation that a VAT may well be in the cards as soon as this fall. The Heritage Foundation describes the VAT, already used in the European Union, as
“similar to a national retail sales tax but is collected at every stage of business production until its entire burden ultimately falls on the consumer.”
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Reality Check Re: 'Spending Freeze"
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"I've proposed a freeze in government spending for three years. This won't apply to the benefits folks get through Social Security, Medicaid, or Medicare. And it won't apply to our national security -- including benefits for veterans. But it will apply to all other discretionary government programs. And we're not simply photocopying last year's budget; freezing spending does not mean we won't cut what doesn't work to pay for what does. We have gone through every department's spending line by line, item by item, looking for inefficiency, duplication, and programs that have outlived their usefulness."
Source: The CBO's Monthly Budget Review, March 2010, and US Statistical Abstract, Table 457.
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AP Applauds Obama's 'Tax Cuts' Even Though Fewer People Taxed Under Bush
[Meanwhile, in our professional media...]
Pop quiz: how do you cut taxes on low and middle-income wage earners and end up with a greater percentage of people paying taxes?
Such is a question the folks at the Associated Press should be asking themselves concerning a piece the wire service published Wednesday entitled
"Nearly Half of US Households Escape Fed Income Tax: Recession, new tax credits have nearly half of US households paying no federal income tax."
In the same paragraph, author Stephen Ohlemacher predictably bashed former President George W. Bush's tax cuts that were "generous to wealthy taxpayers" while he applauded "tax cuts for low- and middle-income families, which were expanded when Obama signed the massive economic recovery package last year."
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Our American Catharsis
[A+ stuff as usual from VDH...]
... Now, however, for the first time in my memory, the United States has an authentic leftist as president — one who unabashedly believes that the role of the U.S. government at home is to redistribute income in order to ensure equality of results through high taxes on a few and increased entitlements for many, while redefining America abroad as a sort of revolutionary state that sees nothing much exceptional in either its past role or its present alliances — other than something that should be “reset” to the norms embraced by the United Nations...
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Politics is high-stakes poker with real losers and winners, not a mere parlor game. The country voted for the party of Pelosi, Reid, and Obama, and for once such statists are governing in the manner of their rhetoric. Time will soon tell whether this strange American experience is transitory and so becomes a needed catharsis, or whether it will be institutionalized and thus result in an enduring tragedy — this rare moment when the dreams of a zealous few are at last becoming the nightmares of a complacent many.
[HIGHLY RECOMMENDED >> ]
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UK conservatives promote Politician recall, a step in right direction
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Today the UK Conservative Party will be announcing proposals to give people the power to "recall" MPs mid-term, if a certain proportion of the electorate in any given constituency sign a petition demanding such a ballot.
Obviously making sure that politicians remember who they serve is a leading issue with UK elections looming...
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Hate speech, hypocrisy from AFL-CIO chief
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Talk about street cred. I just got called “dangerous” by the head of a labor union.AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka was at Harvard Wednesday night, denouncing talk show hosts like yours truly as “apostles of hatred.” He accused Glenn Beck (the only host he called out by name) and the rest of us supporting the Tea Party crowd of being a “similar movement” to the “Nazi-style” fascism of the 1930s with its “racial hatred and political violence.”
A labor leader disturbed by possible “political violence”?
That’s a switch...
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Look For The Union Libel
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Virginia Circuit Court Judge Donald McGlothlin Jr. declared that "the evidence show beyond any shadow of a doubt that violent activities are being organized, orchestrated and encouraged by the leadership of this union."
Unanimous Virginia Supreme Court reinforced Judge McGlothlin's findings: "Union officials took active roles in these unlawful activities. Notwithstanding the large fines, the Union never represented to the court that it regretted or intended to cease its lawless actions. To the contrary, the utter defiance of the rule of law continued unabated."
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... strike against Peabody Coal--Eddie York, a 39 year old non-union worker, "was shot in the back of the head and killed" leaving a job in Logan County, West Virginia.
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In a detailed account of the York murder and subsequent investigation, Reader's Digest noted that "UMW President Richard Trumka did not publicly discipline or reprimand a single striker present when York was killed. In fact, all eight were helped out financially by the local."
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Obama Plots Assault on Non-Union Businesses
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The Obama Administration, in one of its most sweeping socio-economic reforms to date, now plans to use the federal contracting system to reward higher-paying unionized firms that give workers bigger healthcare and pension benefits.
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California pension liability tops $500 billion, Stanford study finds
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"In post-recession, post-stimulus-program America, we've gotten used to some frighteningly big numbers being thrown around in the discussion of public finance.
Nevertheless, it was difficult not to be alarmed at the bottom line in a study of California's pension obligations conducted by Stanford graduate students and touted Monday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger."
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California's Half-Trillion-Dollar Pension Fund Mess: Blame Jerry Brown
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California is the nation's shameful example of what happens when Democrats influenced by big-government labor rule the statehouse for forty years...
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POLL: 55% Oppose Limits On U.S. Nuclear Response To Attacks
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...just 25% of voters agree with the president’s decision to rule out a nuclear response if a non-nuclear country attacks America with chemical or biological weapons...
Only 31% favor any reduction in the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal. Fifty-three percent (53%) oppose any such reduction...
Only 38% think it is even somewhat likely that other countries will reduce their nuclear weapons arsenals and development in response to the actions taken by the United States...
[To summrize: it was and is a very bad idea, it should be undone.]
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Somalis with terrorist links feared headed to U.S. border
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Somalis with ties to a terrorist organization are believed to be plotting to illegally enter the United States after being mistakenly released from custody in Mexico, a confidential federal law enforcement report said...
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GOP Lawmaker Calls for Hearing Into Border Security After Rancher's Murder
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A Republican lawmaker is calling for a hearing into border security following the murder of a prominent Arizona rancher by an assailant authorities believe was an illegal immigrant. Rep. Kay Granger of Texas, the top Republican on the House Foreign Operations subcommittee, told Fox News on Thursday that she would like to have a hearing as soon as Congress returns from its Easter recess to help border states whose pleas for federal assistance have so far gone unmet...
[Obama's remarks on this assault? None.]
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Obama Should Turn His Focus to Border Security -- Now
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Over 1,000 illegal immigrants flood across our southern border with Mexico every day.
When President Bush tried to advance comprehensive immigration reform in his second term in office, he was soundly rebuffed because the American people wanted our borders secured first and foremost before any broad reforms were tackled...
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Missing from AP Story on EPA's CAFE Mileage Move-Up: 'General Motors, Chrysler Likely Hardest Hit'
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Well, most readers here don't think like writers at the Associated Press. Heck, in his report last Friday, the AP's Ken Thomas didn't even mention the fact that the EPA's regs represented a four-year move-up, and to a slightly higher standard -- apparently because doing so would have required him to mention the B-word (Bush) in connection with something seen as environmentally positive. Thomas also allowed "global warming" advocacy support to go unchallenged, as if the ClimateGate scandal that has wrecked the alarmists' entire case didn't exist.
Here are selected paragraphs from the AP report:
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75%Say They’reUnlikely To Buy An Electric Car
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That’s down four points from August...
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Shhh: Ford’s Worldwide Revenues Top GM’s for Full Year; AP Implies Ford Is Smaller Firm
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What stood out even further for me about the announcement was GM's top line, i.e., global revenues. That figure came in at $57.5 billion.
Ford's revenues during the final two quarters of 2009 were $66.3 billion, or roughly 15% higher. GM's ten missing days in July would only explain about one-third of that difference.
It may be out there, but I haven't seen a lot of establishment media recognition that Ford is a bigger company worldwide than General Motors, and has been since the first quarter of last year. Given that GM was larger than Ford for about the previous 80 years, Ford's ascension to the top spot among US-based companies in worldwide revenues would ordinarily be what is known as "news."
[Ah, but they didn't line up at the public control trough, meaning their still subscribing to the evil private business model...]
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Thursday, April 8, 2010
PBS: : Are Your Tactics a 'Model' for Major Legislation?
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PBS NewsHour anchor Jim Lehrer interviewed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday night, and did not directly suggest to her that there was something suspicious in Cornhusker Kickbacks and deem-and-pass strategies. He began by simply asking:
"Do you see the way you did health care reform as a model for enacting major legislation?"
What kind of weird, passive question is that?
Pelosi replied in the affirmative:
"I see the way we did health care reform as a model of getting something done for the American people. It is -- we reached for bipartisanship. We tried to find common ground.
But, if we can't, that doesn't mean we don't go forward."
Lehrer's line of 'questioning' never addressed or even referred to how badly ObamaCare was faring in public-opinion polls...
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Obama's Approval Rating Hits New Low
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Last week, President Obama signed historic health care reform legislation into law -- but his 'legislative success' doesn't seem to have helped his image with the American public.
The latest CBS News Poll, conducted between March 29 and April 1, found Americans unhappier than ever with Mr. Obama's handling of health care -
President Obama's overall job approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 44 percent, down five points from late March, just before the health bill's 'passage'...
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Media Bias a 'Bigger Problem' Than Large Campaign Contributions, Rasmussen Re-Confirms
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Suggesting that perception of bias is of liberal bias, Rasmussen determined “sixty-eight percent (68%) of Republicans and 62% of unaffiliated voters say media bias is the bigger problem in politics, a view shared by just 37% of Democrats. The plurality (46%) of Democrats says campaign contributions are a bigger problem.”READ MORE
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IRS refutes White House assessment of Tea Party Movement.
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“As for those allegedly growing threats of violence by Tea Partiers, no less an authority than Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman said this week that “no, the threat has not increased.” He added that much of what has been written in the media about such threats “actually is not accurate.” Since the IRS has a unit that tracks such tracks, if anybody would know about growing anti-government violence, surely it would be the head tax man.”— The Washington Examiner
Well, there you go. Probably much to the Obama Administration’s dismay, the IRS is giving the Tea Party movement a clean bill of health.
I can tell you from my own experience that in the 12 days and 21 rallies we’ve done, there have been no incidents — NONE — that could be even remotely considered threatening, threat provoking, or violent.
What I have seen are people like you and me, everyday ordinary Americans who love their country...
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Former ABC Reporter Connects Tea Parties to....Leftist South African Blacks?
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"The growing debate in the United States about the increasingly virulent hate speech by so-called Tea Party activists and their talk radio and Republican Party boosters has resonance these days in South Africa."
[???]
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Nominee Over 117 Omissions From Record
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Goodwin Liu: Unqualified, and Hostile to the Constitution
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"In addition to weakening key environmental laws, Roberts's
theory of limited federal power
would potentially undermine bedrock civil rights laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
"Roberts's theory of limited federal power"? Has Liu ever read the Constitution? Did he actually attend law school? If so, was he not taught that ours is a government of limited powers?
Far-left professors like Goodwin Liu don't seem to understand that a judge's role is not to serve as a dictator, imposing left-wing policy preferences on an unwilling public and an "unenlightened" legislature.
It is shocking that President Obama would nominate an extremist like Goodwin Liu, who expresses outright hostility to the most fundamental principles of our democracy, to the federal bench.[Actually, they've virtually all been extremists, one after another.]
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Leahy to forge ahead with Liu hearing despite GOP objections
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Democrats are forging ahead with plans to confirm Goodwin Liu to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit despite GOP protests over the nominee’s failure to fully disclose his speeches and writings.
In a sternly worded letter Wednesday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) denied a Republican request to postpone Liu’s hearing to review the undisclosed information.
“I had hoped that in this new year, we could put political rancor aside and come together to openly and fairly debate President Obama’s qualified judicial nominees,”
Leahy wrote in a letter to Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.), the ranking Republican on Judiciary.
[Provided such 'debate' doesn't include the nominee's own writings for consideration - it's only a life-time appointment, after all.]
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'I Want My Free M.D.'
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Dependency: The Democrats' reform bill had hardly become law before doctors and insurers began getting calls asking about free health care. The growing sense of entitlement is disheartening, to say the least.
'Where do we get the free ObamaCare, and how do I sign up for that?"
That's what Carrie McLean, an agent for eHealthInsurance.com, told McClatchy newspapers she's been hearing from callers...
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Jesse Jackson and Huffpo’s Next Crusade: a Student Loan Bailout
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"A plan to earn debt forgiveness retroactively must be instituted at once as an acknowledgment that an entire generation is mired in tens of thousands of dollars in student debt," Jackson wrote. "Not every one of them will be able to write a blockbuster memoir to pay off student loans."
Although the federal government's latest takeover in student loans by "cutting out the middleman" pleased Jackson, he called on the Obama administration to take more drastic steps in today's "Second Great Depression."
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Democrats Target Sarah Palin-Michele Bachmann Rally
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, two of the conservative movement's stars, are expected to draw thousands of supporters today when they appear together to kick off Bachmann's re-election campaign. Democrats, meanwhile, are attempting to rally their own supporters by taking aim at the controversial figures.
''From these two we have heard nothing but fear and lies - from death panels to warning of a coming apocalypse - and today's rally shouldn't be any different''
Bachmann likely needed a large venue like the Minneapolis Convention Center to host the crowd expected to attend today. The Minnesota GOP gave away more than 10,000 tickets for the event, WCCO reports.
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Obama's national security giveaway
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... So, in one fell swoop, Obama has handed over one of our few military advantages. Imagine OEF, OIF, Kosovo, etc. with limited numbers of cruise missiles, B-52s, B-2s able to deliver PGMs. Or worse, the treaty may be so restrictive that certain numbers systems must be retained for the nuclear mission so that no conventional capability can be deployed...
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Russia Continues to Claim New Treaty Establishes ''Inextricable Connection” with Missile Defense
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently stated that ''linkage to missile defense is clearly spelled out in the accord and is legally binding.''
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Russia reserves opt-out of arms treaty with US
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Government Green Extremists Plot Our Demise
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You can’t make this stuff up.
Follow us here. By the same date — 2015 — that the new 35.5 mpg EPA mandate is due to go into effect, oil companies are also mandated by Congress to double the amount of corn ethanol use (from 2007 levels) to 15 billion gallons. The current mandate of a 10 percent ethanol mix in fuel won’t get us there, so the powerful corn lobby is demanding EPA increase the mandate to a 15 percent ethanol mix.
Trouble is, a gallon of ethanol is 30 percent less efficient than a gallon of gas meaning that the more ethanol you mix in, the worse your gas mileage...
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- Stop 'Big Corn'
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The change means billions more in government subsidies for companies in the business of growing corn and converting it into ethanol. For the rest of us, it means significantly higher gasoline prices...
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EPA Chief Says New Pollution Rules for Cars Only the Beginning of Greenhouse Gas Regulations
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[But they're now in power...]
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California 'debates' cost of sending ILLEGAL aliens to college
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Eight years after California's Legislature adopted a tuition break to help illegal aliens afford college, these students account for 1 percent or less of all students in the state's three higher education systems. The data come as both Republican candidates for governor are calling for the practice to end, while the state's controlling Democrat majority defends the practice...
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Fruits and Veggies Prevent Cancer? Not So Much, It Turns Out
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[I knew it.]
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