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...region (or federation unit) in which an attack occurs must pay victims "moral and material damages." If a court awards compensation beyond the capacity of the region to pay, the central government can be tapped. But citizens cannot sue for punitive damages and the leaders of counterterror operations are exempt from liability. While the Moscow city government has paid each victim $3,000 in compensation, Trunov argued that the funds do not cover the expensive medical care that many need. And the loss of primary wage earners has plunged many middle-class families - those who could afford a night...
...More than half the benefits would go to people making more than $200,000 per year, a quarter to people making more than $1 million per year.” Many seniors and members of the working class who need help the most are already exempt from dividend taxes, under their 401(k) retirement plans...
...fraternity all white, not just in Mississippi but in chapters across the U.S. In Congress he had voted against nearly every contentious civil rights measure, including some that most in his party had supported. He had filed a friend-of-the-court brief to argue for maintaining the tax-exempt status of Bob Jones University, despite its discriminatory policies and its ban on interracial dating. (In his defense, his office offered a list of largely symbolic accomplishments on behalf of minorities: a congressional medal for Rosa Parks, who began the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott; a task force to recognize...
...resistance to civil rights was low-key but consistent. He supported a constitutional amendment in 1979 to prohibit school busing, but it failed. In 1981 Lott persuaded President Reagan to support tax exemptions for racially segregated private schools, a shift in federal policy. Lott also filed his brief with the Supreme Court, defending the tax-exempt status of Bob Jones University, arguing that "racial discrimination does not always violate public policy." The court sided against Lott and the school. In 1982 Lott voted against extension of the Voting Rights Act, but it passed into law. In 1983, he voted against...
...state - known for exorbitant corporate taxes and social charges - says it wants to cultivate firms that have been around for eight years or less and that invest at least 15% of their budgets in research and development. A bill announced Dec. 11 by the center-right government would exempt high R and D firms from paying any corporate income tax for their first three years of operation, wipe out all social charges paid to the state for six years and give capital-gains tax exemption to investors and other shareholders. Biotech entrepreneur Philippe Pouletty, president of the Strategic Council...