SocraticGadfly: Coffee, marijuana, taxes make news roundup

February 09, 2008

Coffee, marijuana, taxes make news roundup

An espresso-tasting machine? Yes

Researchers say they have created a machine that can taste espresso almost as accurately as trained espresso tasters and so should be shut down.


Not just U.S. DEA opposes medical marijuana machines

The U.N. says they violate international law and so should be shut down.

Why the GOP wouldn’t cave on jobless benefits in ‘stimulus’ package

That would dilute a GOP shibboleth, that a tax cut is the only real way to help the economy. Keeping an extension of jobless benefits out of the stimulus package kept it a tax cut.


What ‘marriage penalty’ on taxes?

I’m going to pay more than $400 more as a single than as a married filing jointly on the same income level, on my federal tax return this year. Add in the fact that singles are less likely to own houses and get a mortgage deduction, and we should be talking about the “singles penalty.”

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