Word: collections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...various income brackets, the savings they can expect after President Carter's proposals for income tax cuts go into effect, the increase in Social Security taxes they will pay next year and the net change in both taxes. The average family earning less than $10,000 will actually collect money from the Government; some are net taxpayers, but those earning less than $8,000 are eligible for an "earned-income credit" that entitles them to "refunds" greater than their taxes paid. Tax rates even for families earning more than $100,000 will be reduced, but those people on average...
...underground G.N.P. is attributable to organized crime. The rest, he writes, is largely traceable to such cash-oriented businesses as restaurants, garages and small retail shops, to youths doing part-time chores for pin money, and to the employment of illegal aliens and retired people who also collect Social Security checks. Ultimately, Gutmann feels, the subterranean economy, like black markets around the world, was created by the nation's cobweb of employment restrictions and tax rules. Coupled with a new-morality spirit of what he calls "selective obedience to the law," they encourage Americans to cheat the System when...
...paved roads, despite 30 years of U.S. administration. Electricity comes in irregular spurts. There is no long distance telephone service. The people seldom pay their bills. Once proficient fishermen, the islanders of Ponape and, indeed, of the rest of Micronesia rarely put to sea any more, preferring to collect a range of federal social benefits. (Though its waters are among the world's richest tuna grounds, Micronesia imports more than $ 1 million worth of canned fish annually.) Says Ponape District Attorney Minor Pounds, a native Texan: "If we're going to have a Western society, some...
...realistic sources. It amounts to a lot of stupid dirty jokes among a group of men who demonstrate not a single redeeming, or even contrasting characteristic. An exception might be Charles Durning playing a weary, overweight cop fighting to keep a rebellious tongue in check until he can collect his pension...
...goal is grandiose: to collect and analyze every offensive term ever used on the planet, and to make Aman synonymous with malediction the world over. Says he: "I've spent eleven years on it, day and night, working like a demented beaver because so much has to be done...