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...position of being dependent on inadequate government benefits and unreliable company pension plans. A system based on privatized Social Security and defined-contribution plans such as 401(k)s would be less expensive, allowing businesses to better compete in the global economy. Granted, that shifts more of the retirement burden to the individual worker, but that's what we used to call being self reliant. DOUG HART Spokane, Wash...
...Jesse Gordon to libertarian candidate Bill Hees, have made property tax reform the centerpiece of their campaigns. The candidates point to local anger over a 2004 property tax reassessment that sent some homeowners’ taxes skyrocketing. But the City Council moved in September to lessen the burden on homeowners by tapping into the city’s budget surplus. And incumbents have also come out in favor of easing property taxes for residents.With incumbents and challengers sharing similar platforms, no opposition candidate has emerged as distinctly as DeBergalis did two years ago, “It would be easier...
...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...
...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...