However, when traders pay themselves a small fee to unlock AGI deductions for retirement plans and health insurance premiums, they do owe payroll taxes on salaries or self-employment taxes on administration fees.
This was Britain's self-styled Camelot, an administration of politicians who really were convinced that they were the brightest and the best.
And, of course, there is this mess in Gotham from the administration of the self-proclaimed libertarian Mayor.
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It spares the Obama administration continuing damage from the self-inflicted wound of yet another very bad personnel decision.
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The phrase "enlightened self-interest" has been used repeatedly by administration officials this week in describing the role of business.
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His position is consistent with two key policies of the Obama Administration: a greener economy and energy self-reliance.
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But the administration has compounded its vague goals with self-defeating clarity on methods.
The administration must rectify the plan's self-serving appearance.
The Uribe administration is under attack because the demobilization of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) and the resulting peace process has led to the opening of old and new wounds, revealing links between the paramilitary and the political establishment.
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As Eichler notes, several things are driving this, including a long-term shift in resources to antiterrorism cases, and more recently the use of deferred prosecution agreements, a policy put in place during the Bush administration and unchanged by Obama, which puts an emphasis on self-policing by corporations in the hopes of heading off long, costly court cases.
Self-evidently, the blame cannot be laid entirely at the door of a devolved administration.
As her article was hitting the presses, the Obama administration had already begun openly denying the existence of one of her self-proclaimed great achievements in office.
Understandably, many Republicans fear that a tough primary campaign will weaken their eventual nominee while the Administration is finding it hard to hide how much it has enjoyed the spectacle of Republican self-immolation.
As a result, however, it is now possible to point to a bipartisan American approach to counter-terrorism. (In a backhanded way, the current administration has in this respect - albeit perhaps in this one only - lived up to its self-congratulatory hype as a purveyor of "post-partisan" policy.) We conservatives should not demean this, for it is significant.
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