Word: across-the-board
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...Europe and many developing countries rejected emissions trading and across-the-board cutbacks, and no one would budge on what the goals should be. For a week, more than 2,200 delegates from 161 countries spun their rhetorical wheels in a grueling series of meetings, while about 6,500 nonvoting observers and reporters watched in dismay...
...Dick Armey of Texas and Representative Billy Tauzin of Louisiana have been debating tax-reform alternatives in front of packed auditoriums across the country on what they are calling the "Scrap the Code Tour." They both hope to turn the public's visceral anger at the IRS into a willingness to replace the existing, complex tax code with something simpler. In Armey's case it's a single flat tax on income; in Tauzin's, an across-the-board national sales tax. But because reinventing the tax code is more complicated than bemoaning the intrusiveness of the taxman, the sessions...
...combination of higher property assessments and an across-the-board 4 percent tax-rate increase resulted in tax hikes of four to 16 percent for all Cambridge property owners said Vice Mayor Kathleen L. Born at the council meeting...
...work with the president and his team," a jubilant Newt Gingrich said. "We're going to try to find everything we can to get the bill signed, and I have every reason to believe it'll be signed." The House bill features a $500 per child tax credit, across-the-board reductions in capital gains and estate taxes and a $10,000 deduction for education expenses paid through special investment accounts. The Senate bill would broaden the $500 per child tax credit to low-income families and use income-indexed reductions in capital gains to target small businesses and middle...
...work with the president and his team," a jubilant Newt Gingrich said. "We're going to try to find everything we can to get the bill signed, and I have every reason to believe it'll be signed." The House bill features a $500 per child tax credit, across-the-board reductions in capital gains and estate taxes and a $10,000 deduction for education expenses paid through special investment accounts. The Senate bill would broaden the $500 per child tax credit to low-income families and use income-indexed reductions in capital gains to target small businesses and middle...