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...form. He also wants to raise the $50-per-quarter minimum amount that triggers Social Security taxes, set back in 1954, to $75. (Thanks to inflation, the $50 minimum would come to $600 today.) Experts argue that raising the standard much higher could deny many employees the chance to collect Social Security benefits...
...against foreign spies. Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Dennis DeConcini favors making CIA intelligence available to U.S. companies but does not support running special operations against Airbus or Toyota to gather information. Former CIA Director Stansfield Turner wants the agency to run both defensive and offensive operations. "For us to collect and use commercial intelligence is merely a matter of creating a level playing field," says Turner...
...current system allows the wealthy to claim more than their fair share of benefits. Robert Shapiro, a budget expert at the Progressive Policy Institute and a campaign adviser to Clinton, points out that the most affluent 4% of American families, who earn more than $100,000 a year, collect more than 8% of all federal subsidies for retirement -- equal to about $30 billion a year. According to Shapiro, Clinton could address this imbalance by stating that "those who can take care of their own health care and retirement are obliged not to claim a disproportionate share of federal benefits...
HEALTH-CARE SUBSIDIES Like Social Security, the Medicare program pays benefits (for hospitalization and other medical treatment) to all retirees, regardless of their income. As with Social Security, retirees collect far more from Medicare than they paid in taxes to the program. Taxing even half this subsidy for the wealthiest one-fourth of retirees would raise $5.4 billion a year. An additional premium charged to couples who earn $125,000 a year, for doctors' services received through Medicare, would net $1.9 billion more a year...
Malin said he suspected that the new rule, which applies to all foreign students and visiting scholars, is an attempt to collect taxes from foreign students who might be unaware of correct tax regulations. Foreign undergraduates at Harvard said yesterday they had not yet been informed of the new regulations...