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...politician says that a pet tax break is so incentivizing that it will pay for itself, or that a bigger government deficit doesn't matter, ask yourself: Hey, in that case, why not lower tax rates to zero? Why torture ourselves with taxes at all? If you sense that there may be a flaw in that idea, ask yourself why a smaller version of the same idea isn't also flawed. If you don't sense a flaw, words are wasted...
...thing that infuriates voters is the knife-point targeting of the taxes being introduced by Schröder and his Finance Minister, Hans Eichel. Dog owners will get slapped with a tax of 16% on pet food; company cars will be hit with a 1.5% tax, leading the auto industry to predict 150,000 fewer cars will be sold next year. Air travelers were threatened with a 15% tax on frequent-flyer miles, prompting national airline Lufthansa to say it was considering moving its program overseas, which would eliminate 500 jobs. The government will impose a flat...
...candidates’ experiences and pet issues run the gamut from student life to the council’s organization to curricular reforms...
...Georgia PET CONTROL Money from animal-theme license plates would fund a program to sterilize dogs and cats. Passed...
Even with its newly won bipartite control, the White House doesn't command a "governing majority" in the Senate: the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster. Members of Congress from both parties say Bush will still have to cut deals with Democrats and ditch pet projects in order to get things done. "The President asked for the Senate, and he's got it," says Reid. "He can no longer blame us if something doesn't go right." House Republican leaders say they plan to send a raft of Bush's favorite bills, which they passed early in his term...