When capital moves into the proverbial earth, it enhances a government's taxing ability.

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The impending cuts would cause FBI furloughs equivalent in size to closing the bureau's offices in Chicago, Miami and Baltimore, slash the number of civil and criminal cases filed by federal prosecutors and delay the full use of four new prisons while taxing the ability to keep inmates and guards safe.

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The fine print on many amnesty agreements offers taxing authorities the ability to re-impose penalties and interest waived during the program if the taxpayer fails to meet his or her reporting and payment obligations in the future.

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Not only do innovators of the mind create products that make us more economically efficient, when governments become too aggressive in taxing their earnings, they possess a greater ability to move their human capital to more business-friendly locales.

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The constitutionality of the case hinged on two points: the ability of Congress to impose the individual mandate under the taxing authority and the unwillingness of the Court to question the wisdom of the law.

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And rather than giving more direct aid or broad taxing power to local governments, state legislators have been giving them the ability to levy the same sort of narrow taxes.

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