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...aggressively the government enforces the penalties for noncompliance with data-security laws. "People we've talked to are waiting until the last minute, because they just don't have the budgets," says Josh Pennell, president of IOActive, a security-engineering firm. "It could be cheaper for them to incur the fine" than to pay $100,000 to $1 million for an adequate information-security system. As things stand today, breaking into health-care databases, Pennell says, "would be a trivial thing...
Until the law changes, plan your FSA for costs you are sure to incur, such as deductibles and scheduled orthodontia for the kids. Multiply that amount by your tax bracket (say, 28%), and add that amount as a reserve. Even if you never spend a dime of the reserve, the tax savings on your contributions ensure you'll be no worse off than if you hadn't enrolled. And odds are you'll tap the reserve--even if you don't wear glasses...
...Until the law changes, plan your FSA for costs you are sure to incur, such as deductibles and scheduled orthodontia for the kids. Multiply that amount by your tax bracket (say, 28%), and add that amount as a reserve. Even if you never spend a dime of the reserve, the tax savings on your contributions ensure you'll be no worse off than if you hadn't enrolled. And odds are you'll tap the reserve - even if you don't wear glasses...
...argue that the damages of a second Gulf War would outweigh its benefits—that the number of American soldier and Iraqi civilian lives to be lost, not to mention the desperate measures such a war might inspire in the hearts of terrorists, is simply too great to incur. And if we come to this conclusion, then let us not hesitate in our condemnation of military action. But the fact is that no sane supporter of human rights and democracy can deny that the world is better of without Saddam Hussein in a position of absolute power over...
...will not find the going easy. Japan's construction boondoggles come rigged with booby traps for those who try to dismantle them. Former Governor Yukio Aoshima of Tokyo, who campaigned in the mid-1990s against a ruinous bay project, was forced to retreat when he found that cancellation would incur hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties...