Word: minimum
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...enough complexity back, through juggling of rates, deductions, credits and so forth, so that the tax code is again almost as baroque as it was before the 1986 reform. Today it fills some 7,000 pages. Just trying to comply with it costs Americans $75 billion a year--minimum...
...reform cut tax rates dramatically, thereby allowing individuals to keep more of each additional dollar they earned. Individuals got a $30 billion tax cut. It also eliminated $200 billion in loopholes annually, raised corporate taxes $30 billion by toughening the minimum tax, took 6 million low-income people off the tax rolls by increasing the earned-income tax credit, and required the wealthy to pay a bigger share of the total tax revenues. The lobbyists lost; the people...
...church's material triumphs rival even its evangelical advances. With unusual cooperation from the Latter-day Saints hierarchy (which provided some financial figures and a rare look at church businesses), TIME has been able to quantify the church's extraordinary financial vibrancy. Its current assets total a minimum of $30 billion. If it were a corporation, its estimated $5.9 billion in annual gross income would place it midway through the FORTUNE 500, a little below Union Carbide and the Paine Webber Group but bigger than Nike and the Gap. And as long as corporate rankings are being bandied about...
...left his job as a water-treatment-plant operator. "I was living penny by penny," he says. Friends at a food pantry learned of his plight and sent groceries. Aledia Johnson of Newport News has a job as a corrections officer for Virginia. But she makes little more than minimum wage. Without the food pantry, she says, she would not be able to make ends meet. Says Johnson: "I have a mortgage to pay. I have to keep my car running. That's what gets me to work. And I have to pay for child care." She receives groceries from...
...election, has promised big changes. He and his allies said they would fight France's stubborn 12.8% unemployment rate by creating 700,000 government-backed jobs, reduce the workweek from 39 to 35 hours with no loss in pay, suspend planned privatizations, cut the sales tax and raise the minimum wage. The leftist platform, if implemented, threatens to send the deficits soaring and derail French chances of meeting the tough criteria for joining Europe's single currency, the euro. With Germany racked by increasing doubts about its own ability to make the grade, the French election touched...