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...from a broader economic perspective, dropping mortgage-interest deductions has a certain appeal. For starters, it's only one part of a program that would reform the tax code without changing the burden on the average American. It would raise some taxes only as much as it cuts others. The real target is the alternative minimum tax (AMT), designed years ago to prevent millionaires from avoiding tax, but now increasingly encroaching upon the middle class. Next year the AMT will raise the burden of 21 million taxpayers earning as little as $75,000. But to replace the $1.2 trillion that...
...fourth deadliest month for U.S. troops since they invaded Iraq in March 2003, and last week 27 more Americans died in insurgent attacks, many of them in Sunni-dominated Anbar province, which includes Fallujah. But Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi security forces aren't ready to assume the burden of imposing order in violent Sunni areas. While the city isn't an outright failure, a military official says the hope that Fallujah could soon serve as a model for U.S. success now looks like "perhaps the result of overzealous expectation...
...have to pay property taxes, they both make a voluntary payment to the city each year, in lieu of taxes. But Adkins attributes the city’s financial woes to the loss of taxes from these two large landowners, and argues that charging them would lessen the burden on residents...
...local discontent over recent property tax increases lies at the heart of his appeal to Cambridge voters. Gordon argues that higher taxes have driven working-class and middle-class residents out of Cambridge, and says the current council is not working to ease the burden on homeowners...
...produce a pandemic vaccine before the pandemic actually appears-and so there may not be a vaccine capable of fully immunizing our citizens from the new influenza virus during the first several months of a pandemic." Taking a fresh run at an old goal, Bush said the "growing burden of litigation" had helped drive American vaccine makers out of business over the past three decades, and called on Congress to pass liability protection that would encourage more to enter or return to the business...