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...group of French men and women, the most egregious tax is the "solidarity tax on fortunes," probably the world's broadest tax on wealth, rather than income. Enacted in its current form in 1988 under François Mitterrand, the tax is a levy on anyone whose worldwide assets exceed €720,000. That means the values of stock and bonds, bank accounts, real estate - even personal belongings. About 300,000 French citizens and residents are subject to it, and it causes some talented taxpayers to flee. Take entrepreneur Denis Payre. In 1990, he co-founded a French software company...
...labor committee releases a report recommending substantial pay hikes for Harvard employees, specifically suggested the University boost wages for the school’s 1,000 lowest-paid service employees to at least $10.83 to $11.30 per hour. These figures exceed the $10.25 rallying cry of last spring’s Progressive Student Labor Movement sit-in and the then-$10.68 living wage established by the city of Cambridge...
...Luckily, most service stations now have LEAVE A PENNY, TAKE A PENNY dishes that are meant to help customers who come up short, but sadly there's often nothing in them because so many other people share my problem. What's worse, because my eyes are aging, I usually exceed my round number by 2¢, minimum, forcing me, when there is money in the dish, to take more than one coin as the cashier looks on in disapproval. With gas prices still rising, expect those penny dishes to be replaced by Susan B. Anthony--dollar dishes...
...seen the all-knowing AAA's stats on this summer's average distance per car trip, but just to stay on the organization's good side, I plan to exceed it by 50%--and to actually join the club before I leave...
Something's wrong with this picture. Corporate profits are up; companies are spending again. More than a million jobs have been created since August, and economic growth should exceed 4% the rest of the year. The recovery bodes well for wages and job creation, even, at long last, for conservative savers who have been unable to find money-market yields much above 1% for several years. This is the good news we have all been waiting for. Yet Wall Street has been acting as if something were terribly wrong. Long-term interest rates are notching higher, a clear sign that...