From the standpoint of your personal finances and the government fisc, the effect would be identical.

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With several billionaires already having died in 2010, the fisc is losing out on big dollars.

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As long he does not have a French client, le fisc will leave him alone.

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With ObamaCare coming online, entitlements could swallow the fisc within a decade.

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This is particularly true if the cost of hiring more prosecutors and regulators will result in a net positive to the government fisc.

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He's right about that: Health care was 23% of the state fisc in 2000, and 25% in 2006, but it has climbed to 41% for 2013.

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Among the possible rational bases discussed was protecting the fisc.

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Their plan includes efforts to reshape U.S. policies on everything from immigration to the federal fisc, taxation, trade, and regulation, as well as fresh thinking on infrastructure, energy, and trade.

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Obscene spending risks capsizing the federal fisc.

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The administration argues that since civil unions and marriages are materially identical, those states--unlike those without civil unions, or with ones that are lesser than marriage--have surrendered the option of claiming a rational basis in protecting the public fisc.

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