Word: payes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, raise my taxes. Under the current tax law, the top federal income- tax bracket is 28%, but above $43,150 (or $71,900 for joint returns) it effectively rises to 33% for a while and then drops back to 28%. Don't misunderstand. I love paying just 28%. (And at 28%, I pay a heck of a lot more than I ever did when the top rate was higher, because, far from trying anything stupid to shelter my income from taxes, I'm quite happy to send the Government its share.) But keeping the top rate at 33% instead...
...Salvador slips backward toward the violence and chaos that characterized the country in the early 1980s, it seems plain that Washington's democratic experiment has failed. At best, the U.S. has leased a democracy in El Salvador that will struggle on only as long as Washington continues to pay the rent and Salvadoran officials agree to play along. (ARENA has already asserted that it does not intend to bow to U.S. demands even if it means a drastic reduction of aid.) The U.S. did Duarte no favor by emphasizing the fight against Communist guerrillas instead of reinforcing his agenda...
Critics said that Manville was using Chapter 11 to duck its responsibilities. Yet as Manville (1987 sales: $2.1 billion) emerges from bankruptcy this month, the 130-year-old company is winning praise -- even from many of its victims. Under a complex reorganization plan, the company will pay out more than $2.5 billion in claims over the next 27 years. Despite its monumental obligations, the company is in many ways stronger than ever before. Says Tom Stephens, 46, Manville's chief executive: "After six years in the starting gate, we're raring...
...Meyer says that, "If the argument is, 'this is going to encourage the landlords to rent to wealthy people,' they do it now." He adds that even under existing law, landlords of rent-controlled buildings prefer tenants who can afford to pay their rent consistently...
...funds will not actually pay for food, but rather will go to help poor people in those developing countries gain economic self-sufficiency, Marx said. "Short-term food aid has had a lot of negative effects," Marx said. "Projects that are self-perpetuating give a means of helping the people help themselves over the long term...