TV viewers given eerie look inside California shooters’ home

TV viewers given eerie look inside California shooters’ home

REDLANDS, Calif. (AP) — The kitchen had pots on the stove, dirty dishes in the sink and a half-eaten pita sandwich. In a bedroom, there were boxes of diapers next to a crib with mussed sheets and a desk with photo identification of Syed Farook.

Viewers around the world got an intimate look Friday at the home of Farook and Tashfeen Malik, two days after their modest Redlands, California, apartment became an active crime scene and where authorities said the couple stored pipe bombs, tools and large caches of ammunition.

‘Cadillac tax’ runs over the middle class
Barack Obama

‘Cadillac tax’ runs over the middle class

Joseph Tortelli

Have you heard of the "Cadillac tax?"

Despite the clever phrasing, it's not a luxury automobile tax aimed at the wealthiest 1 percent. The Cadillac brand has long been associated with affluence. In the 1950s and 1960s, owning a Cadillac signaled that a person had climbed to the top of the American socio-economic ladder. Following the fuel shortages and recession of the 1970s, the same Cadillac suggested excessive gas guzzling and unseemly conspicuous consumption.

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