Chriss Street, the Treasurer-Tax Collector of Orange County, Calif.

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This makes Dubya, the so-called tax cutter, the biggest tax collector in American history.

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That is a lot of money to work with--and to shield from the tax collector and others.

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Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of -very dollar earned.

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There is an old joke--attributed, of course, to Mark Twain--about the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector: The taxidermist takes only your skin.

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He lobbied the county tax collector, arguing that Skibowl should stay in local hands--and promised he'd get the lifts cranking that winter.

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It says that you can roll over capital gains from one small-business investment to another, deferring your day of reckoning with the tax collector.

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Seniors can appeal to their local tax collector to lower their bills, she notes, and many states offer seniors special property-tax abatements.

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The first change would mean that higher-income workers would have to do more of their retirement savings in accounts exposed to the tax collector.

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