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Barclays Capital Study Echoes CFIF on the Danger of Raising Taxes on "The Rich"

We note in our Lunchtime Liberty Update this week that the Obama Administration's class warfare campaign targeting "the rich" will inflict further harm on our economy.  Not only would such tax increases hit small businesses (which create most new jobs in America) particularly hard, it would also penalize the income segment that accounts for 1/3 of consumer spending, which itself accounts for 2/3 of the nation's economy. Confiscating even more of those dollars may sound fine on a teleprompter, but it will bring destructive consequences in the real world.

Now, a new study by Barclays Capital highlights another potential harm.  According to their analysis, Obama's plan will cause a 9% drop in the S&P 500 and a 900-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.  As noted in this morning…[more]

July 30, 2010 • 01:12 pm

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Tuesday, June 16 2009

A California judge recently dismissed a lawsuit against the makers of Cap'n Crunch with Crunchberries cereal after finding that the product box clearly depicts the round, crunchy berries as cereal balls and not real fruit as the plaintiff assumed.

According to a class action complaint filed in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of California, plaintiff Janine Sugawara sued Pepsico, Inc, the maker of the cereal, alleging that the marketing and advertising for the cereal was misleading and deceptive as the product contains no actual berries.  In addition to seeking restitution for out-of-pocket expenses and economic harm, actual and punitive damages and attorney's fees, plaintiff contended that the phrase “Strawberry artificially flavored cereal” should be added to the label.

U.S. District Judge Morrison England, Jr. dismissed the case, finding that a reasonable consumer would not have been decieved by the packaging.

News reports indicate that plaintiff's attorneys, the Hewell Law Firm in San Diego, lost a similar case against the maker of Froot Loops cereal.

—Source:  Nevadacounty.com and Complaint, Sugawara v. PepsiCo., Inc.

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