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Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen presented a plan that would raise the fee for a gun dealer's license from $66 to $600 (just last year the fee was only $10). Bentsen says he hopes the increase would prevent 70% of license renewals. The proposal would also tighten regulations for gun dealers who fail to keep proper records of their sales...
Secretary of the Treasury Lloyd Bentsen has introduced several new gun-control initiative for Congress to debate in 1994. The foremost among these proposes to raise the fee for registration as a gun dealer form $66 to $600. Bentsen estimated that 80 percent of the nation's 150,000 gun dealers would not renew their licenses with the higher fee. Why do dealers number so many? It turns out that many people obtain the license solely to receive the discounts on gun purchases that manufacturers grant to dealers. When there are so many dealers, you don't need...
Happily, the past couple of years have seen many credit-card rates fall. If the rate you pay remains high, call the issuer and ask for a lower rate or to have the annual fee waived -- or both. Believe it or not, many credit-card issuers will do this rather than lose you to a lower-priced competitor...
...self-reflection are more quantifiable: invitations to appear on Sally Jessy, book contracts, speaking engagements, invitations to appear on Oprah and so on. For celebrities, personal growth comes with a sense of obligation to suffer all the little inner children to come unto them, particularly if there is a fee involved...
...next major gun-control battle is likely to be over the rules for licensing gun dealers, which Schumer's bill would tighten. In August, President Clinton called for a review of these lax federal procedures, which currently provide a one-year dealer's license for a $10 fee -- going to $200 under the Brady Bill -- to anyone over 21 who has a fixed address and no criminal record. That entitles the holder to order an unlimited number of guns from wholesalers. Today there are more than 287,000 federally licensed dealers in the U.S., nearly three-fourths of them "kitchen...