Word: burdens
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...easy to apply technical terms such as "progressive" or "regressive" taxes to everyday life. The value-added tax will force poorer people to pay more taxes while relieving giant corporations of much of their own tax burden. That's not theory, it's fact. To say that equitable tax laws create a "self-defeating system" is ridiculous. As my article pointed out, legislators can restructure America's taxes to provide incentives for savings and investments without forcing wealthy tax-payers to leave the United States. The elimination of interest-rate ceilings on bank savings accounts or the establishment tax credits...
Will the world be ready and able to bear the burden of allowing the Cambodians to perish? In this day and age, when there is so much talk about planning for a future, don't you think that we should plan for the Cambodians' future too? Kathryn G. Banks Baltimore
...month, and gasoline sells for 53? a gal. Thanks to energy royalties, Alberta is Canada's only province with no sales or gasoline taxes. Its property and income taxes are the lowest of any province; for a family of four earning $17,000, the overall tax burden is $912 a year, vs. $2,130 in Quebec...
MARRIED. Amanda Burden, 36, fashion-plate daughter of the late society queen Barbara ("Babe") Paley; and Steven Ross, 52, acquisition-minded chairman of Warner Communications; both for the second time; in East Hampton...
Director Garry could have taken some of the burden of enlivening slow patches of the script off the actors' hands, but chose not to, using dull blocking and an entirely static--though lavish--set. The only evidence of a director's hand in the production at all, in fact, is the presence of a pianist (Jeffrey Halpern) on stage before each act, playing show tunes and Gershwin with flair but without much point...