You have the option of just eating one." Kristi Cunningham says she and Sam Whitfield hope to expand Curbside Cupcakes within Washington and to surrounding areas.
VOA: special.2010.04.12
In recent weeks, a scrum of ailing companies, including General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler, have descended upon Washington to ask Uncle Sam for money.
Both Blake Robison, director of the production now running at the Folger Elizabethan Theatre in Washington, DC, and Sam Mendes, who directs the Bridge Project's production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, emphasise this aspect by opening their productions with the actor who plays the unfortunate Mamillius, the boy-prince who dies of grief, reading from a book of fairy tales.
Shining a light on the current system would likely reveal that people actually pay more taxes than they think they do, says Sam Batkins, a spokesman for the National Taxpayers Union, a Washington-based group has supported the flat tax.