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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 José 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...