Japan-Hawaii-Guam is in recession, as is Japan to the mainland U.S. The revenue base is equivalent to AMR and it, too, earns over a billion.

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That makes it a Non-Appropriated Fund Instrumentality, the equivalent to the commissary on a military base.

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The 9-9-9 Plan is a member of what I call the family of taxonomically equivalent tax systems, which define the tax base in an economically proper manner, albeit in different forms, and minimize the deadweight-loss tax burden on the economy.

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