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		<title>Open letter to NAB president regarding the Performance &#8216;Tax&#8217; Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CousinB</dc:creator>
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What follows is a copy of a letter sent to NAB&#8217;s president-CEO in response to a published quote of his.





Date: 
04-26-10


To: 
NAB President-CEO Gordon Smith


From: 
Brian Ascenzo, Pegwood Arts


Re: 
Performance &#8216;tax&#8217;




Mr. Smith,


Speaking as both a BMI composer/musician and NAB member, I must voice my mixed reactions and thoughts with regards to your latest media quote:

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		<title>I&#8217;m Only Biased Towards Prejudice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lunatic Fringe in the Middle
&#167;&#160;4:&#160;&#160; I&#8217;m Only Biased Towards Prejudice

How many times a day do you hear them? More importantly, just what do &#8220;bias&#8221; and &#8220;prejudice&#8221; really mean to you? Do they mean the same things they meant 50 years ago? 100 years? 200??


Back out on my familiar limb, I’m going to throw caution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Counselor&#8217;s Dilemma</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lunatic Fringe in the Middle
&#167;&#160;3:&#160;&#160; The Counselor&#8217;s Dilemma

The pressures of everyday life are mounting higher with each passing year. The toll on humanity is incalculable, manifesting itself in some of the ugliest ways imaginable. And the victims of this outrageous terror?


Our spirits.


Yes, our very souls are under attack from within and without, plagued by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas from Cousin B</title>
		<link>http://www.pegwood.com/blog/2009/12/merry-christmas-from-cousin-b/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Attack of the Giant Page 425</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you have gotten this email.
B-note: This is a partial quote from the email. He cites several dozen more, but these are the &#8220;horrifying, shocker&#8221; lines referred to and originally printed by the author in red.
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I URGE YOU TO READ THIS ALL THE WAY THROUGH AND IF YOU DON&#8217;T LIKE WHAT IS THERE TO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Communazisocialerisms&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Oxford University Press:
Socialism
refers to any one of various theories of economic organization advocating public or collective ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and a society characterized by equal access to resources for all individuals with a more egalitarian method of compensation.
Communism
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finances, Schminances &#8211; Part 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Part Four: Epilogue
Unfortunately, rate gouging to maintain margins is common practice for finance-based companies. They hold everyone hostage by controlling the money, charging for doing it, and penalizing you past your means if you get behind.
I don&#8217;t know, that sounds like extortion without the broken limbs, to me.
And that &#8220;new deal at the table&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finances, Schminances &#8211; Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part Three: They Get Us Where We Live
In the housing industry, it all comes together &#8211; every form of margining, gouging, and fee wrangling takes place in the cavalcade of paperwork and fine print the unwary homebuyer faces.
Here&#8217;s how it works.
&#8220;Ed&#8221; watches some house-flipping show on TV.
He&#8217;s fascinated and thinks he can easily pull it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finances, Schminances &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part Two: The Monster Grows
So, all of our financial companies hit the Wall Street Casino with our collective cash from all our monthly payments, and it&#8217;s not going well. There&#8217;re way too many people betting on the same things and driving up the bets. Everyone has to raise their rates to make sure they keep [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part One: Genesis
One of the themes of President Obama&#8217;s administration that draws controversy is the idea of &#8220;redistributing&#8221; wealth. Depending on your point of view, this is either nobly responsible or outright larceny. Or if you don&#8217;t fancy yourself to be a &#8220;liberal&#8221; or &#8220;conservative&#8221; (I don&#8217;t like to use the terms &#8211; they don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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