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...would have to give up his best weapon in the budget war. And so, with eyes downcast and voice resolute, he recalled his own childhood as an Army brat, remembering what it was like to live in a family that always seemed to be stretching toward its next paycheck. And then came the clincher: ''It is morally wrong and indefensible not to pay federal workers. I don't care what the rest of you think; I am going to get something on the floor in the next couple of days.'' By late the next evening, the U.S. government was back...
...G.O.P. plan would effectively cut the capital gains tax rate from 28% to 19.8%. The lowest tax rate for wages, when Social Security taxes are included, is about 23%. Thus in proportional terms the sale of 200 shares from a stock portfolio might be taxed more lightly than the paycheck of a cleaning lady...
...police and National Guard troops. Most of $280 million in private funds has been devoted to building 32 supermarkets that help local people who otherwise pay higher prices at small shops. But as for the jobs they create, not many families get out of poverty on a cashier's paycheck...
...would have stayed on because even now I'm guessing I carry around two-thirds of a [teaching] load," says the Kennedy School's Dillon Professor of International Affairs Emeritus Raymond Vernon, who is 82 years old. "The main thing I've really been relieved of is my paycheck...
...field at the time. For another, he first signed on as a temporary secretary. "Like many people," he recalls, "I decided to be a journalist in the aftermath of the Watergate hearings. I was trying to make it as a freelance writer and was basically starving. I needed a paycheck...