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...Wayne National Bank, where he has been a customer for three years, would have given him a mortgage last October with an interest rate somewhere between 13% and 14%. But the bank insisted on a 30% cash down payment and Despos could not afford it. The $52,500 cash outlay would have eaten up all the tailor's working capital. Since then mortgage rates have climbed...
This is all part of kosai-hi, literally entertainment expenses. Japan's national tax administration estimates that total outlay for company entertainment during the past fiscal year was $13.3 billion, up 11.2% from the previous year. While the Japanese defense budget is .9% of the country's G.N.P., corporate wining and dining accounts for 1.2% of total national output. Japanese tax law even permits smaller companies to write off more entertainment than large ones, on the grounds that fledgling firms have more need to grease the corporate skids...
With sizable tax cuts, the new Administration will be all the more pressed to cut spending. When the outlay was estimated to be $633 billion for fiscal 1981, Reagan advisers considered cutting 2%, or about $13 billion. Now the budget is estimated to stand at $653 billion, and a 2% reduction would not be nearly enough to prevent further inflation, especially if Reagan adds to defense spending. As a start - and it would be only a modest one - his advisers want to take a substantial slice out of the $8.9 billion Government travel budget and the $10 billion food-stamp...
...prison work is as lucrative as Dan Morgan's in Stillwater. Colorado pays its inmates up to $3.04 an hour, but a few states like Texas pay nothing, and the national average is a modest 20? to 30? an hour. Whatever their outlay, the states aim for a good return. It costs about $10,000 to house the average prisoner for a year, and with inmate population expanding and taxpayers' tolerance shrinking, legislators are loath to spend any more than they absolutely must to keep their penal systems going. Thus it is a boon when a state...
...reason that wind power's future looks bright is growing Government support. The federal Department of Energy in 1979 put some $60 million into the design and testing of large wind generators by aerospace firms such as Boeing and Lockheed. In 1981 the federal outlay is expected to jump to $80 million. The Government is also encouraging, with income-tax credits, small-scale residential windmills for individual homeowners. The credits pay 40% of out-of-pocket costs for the devices...