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...need it. But it is a tenet of their religious belief that the Amish people should take care of their own. They do not collect unemployment or welfare benefits. They do not buy insurance of any kind. By an act of Congress in 1965, self-employed Amish men are exempt from paying Social Security taxes on religious grounds. But the act does not cover Amish men who work for Amish employers. It is this apparent inconsistency that has propelled Lee into the courts...
Corporations have long employed small armies of accountants and lawyers to find methods of legally avoiding taxes. These are often very successful. First Chicago Corp. (1981 assets: $33.6 billion) was able to use an array of credits, deductions and tax-exempt investments to eliminate all U.S. taxes on its 1980 income of $48 million. A recent Tax Analysts and Advocates survey sorted 405 major firms into industry groups and found that in 1980 they paid a median tax rate of 24%, well below the corporate ceiling...
Borya is a mechanics student whom I befriended one cold night on the street. He noticed I was shivering and offered me his scarf. Enrolled in an institute of higher learning, he is exempt from military conscription. Nevertheless, he and his fellow students devote a few days each month to studies under the institute's department of war. On these days they wear green uniforms and learn how to repair jeeps and trucks. Like many Russians Borya wanted to know what American life is really like. Are salaries in the government sector lower than those in the private sector...
...Linnaean St. case, where a group of residents have sought special city council action that would exempt them from Cambridge's tough ordinances preventing the conversion of rent controlled apartments to condominiums, was a major issue in last fall's council election campaign...
...speakers denounced the plans as "a grave joke" and "an illusion." Said Betsy Moen, professor of sociology at the University of Colorado: "The plan doesn't even mention radiation. Once a bomb is launched, it will be an all-out war and no community in the U.S. will be exempt...