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If you count the $17 billion in income taxes expected to be paid on Social Security benefits, the system will still manage to provide a slight surplus for federal coffers in fiscal 2009. But from 2010 through 2012, there are small projected deficits, and after heading back into the black...
But better border security in the U.S. and better policing in Mexico will not make the drug wars go away. Each year an estimated 350 tons of cocaine, together with other drugs, finds its way to the U.S., while more than $25 billion flows south into the cartels' coffers. The...
Antismoking advocates tout this month's record increase in the federal cigarette-tax rate, which on April 1 spiked from 39¢ to $1.01 per pack, as a move that will bolster the federal budget while saving an estimated 900,000 lives. Supporters say the measure will stop 2 million kids...
In recent weeks, a variety of groups have come out in protest, from truckers to small business owners. The largest was a crowd of 10,000 demonstrating against the Kiev city council's handling of the financial crisis, which has pushed the mayor to propose novel ways of filling the...
There is a lot more oil and gas where that came from, if Beijing can bring itself to depend on Moscow as a supplier. That isn't as easy as proximity might suggest. The two countries have never trusted each other. But economics now dictates that historical enmity be put...