Income Taxes

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Income Taxes [Abstract]

Income Taxes

(9)   Income Taxes:

The following is a reconciliation of the provision for income taxes computed at federal statutory rates to the effective rates:

		For the three months ended
	March 31,
		2012	2011
Consolidated tax provision at federal statutory rate		35.0%	35.0%
State income tax provisions, net of federal income
tax benefit		3.6	3.8
All other, net		(0.6)	0.6
Effective tax rate		38.0%	39.4%

Income taxes for the three months ended March 31, 2011 includes the impact of a $1.1 million charge resulting from increases in certain state income tax rates.

The amount of our uncertain tax positions whose statute of limitations are expected to expire during the next twelve months and which would affect our effective tax rate is $8.4 million as of March 31, 2012.