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He was wrong.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/2076598654</guid><pubDate>Fri, 3 Jul 2009 17:32:18 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Portfolio Planning: A Case Study (BusinessWeek)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/bizwk/090703/0928b4139046346428.html?.v=1</link><description>Five advisers come up with a financial plan for a hypothetical baby boomer couple with kids in college, aging parents, and a decimated retirement account</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/1874597449</guid><pubDate>Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:08:41 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Web retailers, states tussle over tax rules (AP)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090702/us_tec_online_sales_taxes.html?.v=4</link><description>In a big break for online shoppers, Web retailers generally don&apos;t have to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store or some other physical presence.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/4231117288</guid><pubDate>Fri, 3 Jul 2009 01:08:54 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hawaii gas prices surge (AP)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090702/us_hawaii_gas_prices.html?.v=1</link><description>Hawaii gas prices jumped by double digits this week, adding as much as 14 cents per gallon in the state that already had the most expensive fuel in the nation.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/521327370</guid><pubDate>Fri, 3 Jul 2009 01:00:09 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stop The Madness That&apos;s Killing Jobs (Investor&apos;s Business Daily)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/090702/issues.html?.v=1</link><description>Stimulus: More grim news -- 467,000 jobs lost in June, with unemployment hitting a 26-year high of 9.5%. 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After hearing pleas from state Internet business owners, Gov. 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Linda Lingle announced that she plans to veto a gas tax increase and an Internet sales tax, which had prompted Amazon.com cut ties with island Web sites.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/749475696</guid><pubDate>Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:51:25 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ohio Supreme Court to hear satellite TV tax appeal (AP)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090701/oh_supco_satellite_tv_tax.html?.v=1</link><description>The Ohio Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to hear a satellite TV company&apos;s appeal of a state sales tax imposed on the industry in 2003.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/2597174699</guid><pubDate>Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:21:28 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>11 charged in alleged ID theft, tax scheme in NY (AP)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090701/us_ny_tax_refunds_scam.html?.v=1</link><description>Federal authorities have charged 11 people with stealing the names and Social Security number of people living in Puerto Rico and using the information to try to collect millions of dollars in tax refunds.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/4155821997</guid><pubDate>Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:00:24 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Health reform won&apos;t cure the deficit (CNNMoney.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/cnnm/090701/070109_health_care_reform.html?.v=1</link><description>The promise of health reform is to make care more accessible for everybody -- and to reduce the federal deficit by slowing the growth rate in costs.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/2890471879</guid><pubDate>Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:06:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>California, other states face tough budget choices (AP)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090701/us_california_budget.html?.v=1</link><description>Lawmakers around the nation were locked in grueling, around-the-clock budget sessions as they struggled to avoid government shutdowns and other painful cuts, with the most dramatic negotiations unfolding in California amid a historic $24.3 billion deficit.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/4090463207</guid><pubDate>Wed, 1 Jul 2009 06:00:25 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Taxes Or Growth? (Investor&apos;s Business Daily)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/090630/issues.html?.v=1</link><description>Taxes: The White House now refuses to rule out raising taxes on the middle class. Meanwhile, a top finance official in the previous Democratic...</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/2319175395</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:59:36 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss><!-- c24.finance.sp1.yahoo.com compressed/chunked Fri Jul  3 18:29:02 PDT 2009 -->
