Word: iras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grant from the Ira W. DeCamp Foundation will be distributed over five years to the Division of Medical Ethics, which was created six months ago but has lacked major funding, said Dr. Lynn M. Peterson, who directs the Medical School program...
...most drastic approach comes from Congressman John Porter, an Illinois Republican. He suggests that the Federal Government each year refund the Social Security surplus into Individual Social Security Retirement Accounts. Every worker could direct his account, like an IRA, into an array of nonspeculative investments, including Government bonds or certain mutual funds. The result, says Porter, would be a system of "vested, fully funded, worker-owned retirement accounts" -- though one in which the more successful investors would reap the larger benefits...
Liberalizing the limits on Individual Retirement Account contributions, by contrast, would give the typical middle-class taxpayer an immediate $85-to- $115 tax break for choosing the IRA over the VCR, depending on local tax savings...
Either plan -- a broad capital-gains cut or liberalized IRA deduction -- would cost a fortune. (A bargain capital-gains tax rate would shake loose revenues at first as investors sold to take advantage of it but in the long run come back to bite us.) So it may be that given the deficit, we can afford neither...
...January 1986 charges against five of those originally accused and jailed were abruptly dropped when a new district attorney, Ira Reiner, declared a "complete absence of evidence" against them. That did not stop a determined prosecutor, Lael Rubin, from relentlessly pursuing the case against Peggy Buckey and Raymond. There was little corroborating evidence. Child pornography, which prosecutors had suggested was the Buckeys' motive, was not proved: despite an international search for evidence by five government agencies, including the FBI, no pornographic photos of the McMartin children were ever found...