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...going to try to collect it next week if we can walk," Ribaudo said...
...first $16,000 of income). A consumption tax also would tax gifts and inheritances like any other income, unlike current law, which favors the rich. And since even wealthy taxpayers spend nearly as much as they earn over the course of their lives, the consumption tax can eventually collect as much from them as would an income tax, and more efficiently. A consumption tax can -- and should, for political appeal -- be designed so that a large majority of taxpayers would pay slightly less than they do under current law, while the wealthiest would pay slightly more...
...They think he's one of them. He thinks he's one of them." But Perot scorns the two-party politics that tripped up Tracy and instead is mobilizing the energies of the little people -- the John and Jane Does of the land -- in a citizens' crusade to collect the 800,000 signatures needed to put him on the ballot in all 50 states...
Next year, the city will need a projected tax levy increase of 5.4 percent. But unless the city overrides Proposition 2 1/2, which determines the legal levy limit, the city will only be able to collect a 3.3 increase, meaning a funding shortfall of nearly $3 million...
While Harvard's record of compliance with copyright law is good, that record does not shield the University from the costly and time-consuming process. Harvard administrators now say that the added costs of obtaining permissions, along with a corresponding rise in the royalty fees publishers collect from such permissions, may force them to raise the price of many sourcebooks...