For billionaire wannabes, there is always the old fashioned way of entrepreneurial success as in Bill Gates, Sam Walton, Rupert Murdoch, Steve Wynn, Craig McCaw and Ron Perelman.

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More recently Sam Walton, Bill Gates, Gordon Moore and others: capitalists long ranking as the ultimate wealth creators!

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Depending on where you live and whether you are subject to the federal alternative minimum tax (which determines whether you bear the full brunt of your state tax bill or can share it with Uncle Sam), the state tax penalty could easily be worth 35 to 50 basis points.

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So long as 51% of a bill remains and can be proved genuine, Uncle Sam will refund its full value.

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Statesmen like George Shultz, Sam Nunn, Henry Kissinger, and Bill Perry have been outspoken in their support of more assertive action.

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Sam Brownback joined McCain in offering a defense of the bill, and that was qualified.

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