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February 26, 1999 Volume II, Number 24
One Person's Cost is Another's Investment

“Marriage Penalty” -- Under certain circumstances, couples are taxed at a higher rate on their combined incomes than they would be if they were single and filing separately. This is called the “Marriage Penalty” which we should be, if only as a social matter, attempting to fix.

“Orwellian” -- In the novel “1984”, George Orwell wrote about the concept of “newspeak” where words were given meanings by the government which were often the opposite of their useage in daily life by citizens. The concepts of Costs and Investment are 1999 examples of “newspeak.”

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