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...cars. Between my husband and me, we drive 13,000 miles (21,000 km) a year, making our country 520 gal. (2,000 L) of gas more dependent on foreign suppliers. The thermostat in our 2,200-sq.-ft. (200 sq m) house is set at 70°F (21??C). It takes 6,960 kW-h a year to power our computers, halogen lights and plasma TV. My child went through an industry-calculated average of 4.4 diapers a day for 34 months, which amounts to 4,488 soiled Huggies in some landfill. So far this year, I have traveled...
Since the AMT isn't indexed to inflation, more Americans are affected every year. If Congress doesn't act soon, about 21??million will be penalized. House Ways and Means chairman Charles Rangel has proposed a one-year stopgap fix that would exempt these middle-income taxpayers from the AMT, at a cost of more than $50 billion. The problem? In a fit of fiscal prudence, the Dems earlier this year passed a requirement mandating that Congress pay for everything it does with either tax hikes or budget cuts. Cue the proposed hedge-fund tax increase...
...much money on underwriting: the premiums collected have exceeded claims paid in only two of the past ten years. Most of their profits come from investing the premiums they collect. Five years ago, when the prime rate, keystone of the U.S. interest-rate structure, hit an incredible high of 21??%, such investments paid off very, very well...
...tobacco was selling at 10¢ per lb. An AAA processing tax kited it to 21?? per lb. That was the price agreed upon as giving tobacco-growers pre-War parity. In expounding the processing tax to Congress, Secretary Wallace had declared that "once pre-War parity is reached, the tax is completely removed." But tobacco is now selling at 27¢ per lb. and AAA is still levying its processing tax. Thus to the Senate Committee on Agriculture & Forestry last fortnight complained S. Clay Williams, board vice chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), onetime chairman of NIRB...
...market price the ratio of silver to gold today is 76 to one. ?The silver in a U. S. silver dollar is worth today 21?...