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...responded quickly enough to the city's growing problems. A light-rail system, needed to ease congestion in the city, was first proposed in 2003 but construction still hasn't begun. Labor advocates have demanded the government further restrict competition from foreign workers, build public housing and raise the minimum wage to alleviate the financial strain in the working class. Ho's administration was also brushed by scandal when his former Transport and Public Works Secretary, Ao Man-long, was sentenced to 27 years in prison in January for taking kickbacks on construction projects...
...would end Bush's tax cuts for families making more than $250,000 and raise the capital-gains tax rate to 25% from 15%. He wants yearly tax credits of $500 for individuals and $1,000 for families. He would make Bush's tax cuts permanent, abolish the alternative minimum tax and reduce the corporate tax rate to 25% from 35%. He may be open to the possibility of a higher Social Security payroll tax. SPENDING The next President will inherit a record budget deficit, estimated at $482 billion. What are the candidates' positions on the federal budget? He favors...
...raised the minimum wage, made college more affordable with the biggest bill since the GI Bill was signed in 1944, passed a historic energy bill with emission standards. But we didn't end the war, and I think that's why people have a negative view of Congress...
RENTS FOR $1,400/NIGHT A CODY HOUSE Gregg Rapp's light-soaked (and marble-clad) three bedroom is available for two-night-minimum stays...
...also the perennial issues that the next Administration must deal with, such as the budget and supplemental war funding (which, if McCain wins, will be one of the most contentious measures). Two other annual thorns - Band-Aid fixes for a middle-class tax hike known as the alternative minimum tax and an ever growing increase in fees paid by Medicare to doctors - could see permanent solutions next year, though such moves would require a serious look at the tax code and reforming entitlements, both tall orders. "These are big problems. I think these are core policy issues, and having them...