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Unfortunately, however, tax coddling doesn't necessarily put the overclass in the mood to generate decent employment. Barlett and Steele offer the case of Buster Brown shoes, which managed, by means of some cunning detours through the Caymans, to reduce its 1987 tax rate to 1.7% of sales. Meanwhile, the company was laying off hundreds of stateside employees, who for their part had no choice but to pay taxes on their unemployment benefits. Or contemplate the 1950s, when corporate tax rates were piratical by today's standards but unemployment was low and the middle class was busily expanding...
Even Chetron, however, who also put down Eliot, Kirkland and Leverett "as a Quad-buster," said the popular house was not his favorite choice of the four. "I and got my third choice house," he said...
...Weather," with its hip jazz shimmy that sounds like it belongs on Sting's last album. Add in a trumpet solo (as Peck does on many tunes), a walking bass and sampled strings, and you have a very curious tune. It has the same value as the likes of buster Pointdexter or Thomas Dolby, minus the better arrangements, interesting voices, and performer personalities. Which brings us to yet another problem: Peck's songs and singing don't really reveal much about his personality, which makes them appealing pop radio fodder, but not much else...
...government coffers. In moving to raise interest rates last week, the Federal Reserve wagered in effect that an increase now would prevent the economy from overheating and maintain inflation at its current modest level of about 3%. That combination of sustainable growth and stable prices could be a deficit buster's best friend...
...United States is facing an economic border war. It has nothing to do with NAFTA, but its consequences make Ross Perot's giant sucking sound seem like nothing more that a Dust-Buster. Yet the only skirmish to receive national attention was packaged as a battle about benefits for domestic partners...