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.

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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.

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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.

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In fact, she got to name my mother, Dolores, because by the time my mother came along my immigrant grandparents, Sam and Molly, were running a dress shop and tailoring business in Washington Heights, Manhattan, near or on Dyckman Street.

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Washington forces American companies with facilities in foreign countries to pay taxes to Uncle Sam, in addition to the taxes they pay the foreign countries in which these facilities are located.

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Because of the heat generated within Washington, the demands to "do something, " and to allay regional fears that Uncle Sam's defenses aren't what they used to be.

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