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Not Pelosi’s Windfall Tax
Q: Did Pelosi advocate taxing "windfall" stock profits at 100%? A: No. A widely circulated e-mail quoting her is a fraud.
Lies in the E-mail, Part 2
Since my first article on lying e-mails, I’ve gotten dozens of inquiries about a snarky little message blaming Democrats alone for all sorts of bad changes to Social Security. I’m calling it "Lying E-mail #2" because it is so full of laughably inaccurate claims. Who Taxed Benefits? The most glaring …
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What To Do When Your Friend’s E-mail Lies To You.
Let me put the matter bluntly: an awful lot of the e-mailed messages zipping around the Internet are lies — and too many are being sent on by gullible, lazy friends who ought to know better. These falsehoods are multiplying like viruses as recipients forward them to their entire list …
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