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Pemex is now the government's cash cow, providing about 30% of federal revenues, a dependence that has torpedoed fiscal reform. Nonoil tax collection, as a percentage of GDP, is about 10%--about the same as in Haiti. Lopez Obrador's economic team calculated that an additional 2% to 3 % of GDP could be recouped with more rigorous tax collection, which would mean cracking down on rampant tax evasion--roughly at 50%--and the widespread abuse of legal but economically unjustified tax exemptions. "All businesses should pay tax without exemptions," says Jos� Luis Barraza, president of the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial...
...BULLDOGS’ CASH COW...
...fuck’ to another little boy when, during a playdate, the other child threw a Nerf ball over Adam’s head. The boy’s mother, in earshot, was not pleased. Their favorite teddy bears, which the clever children have both named ‘Cow,’ were gifts from me that I picked up at the Coop the day they were born and brought home during a break. Their favorite computer game—a Sesame Street production starring Elmo—was introduced to them by me last summer...
...federal complex is located only a couple of chip shots away from a combined golf course and housing development. While the two higher-security prisons there have walled yards, the entire campus is separated from the community by only a single barbed-wire cow fence. State representative Buffie McFadyen, a two-term Democrat whose district includes the prisons in Fremont County, has pressed members of Congress, to no avail, to appropriate funds to build a solid wall around the complex, along with a central guard tower to better protect the center from outside attack. The Bureau of Prisons has already...
...Cow stomachs COW STOMACHS?! This Week: 4 Last Week...