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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Companies can form FSCs in 32 countries designated by Congress--among them Jamaica and Barbados--or in a U.S. possession like the Virgin Islands. The company then funnels its exports (or, more accurately, the paperwork for its exports) through its offshore FSC. Presto: no federal income taxes on a portion of those export profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: Fantasy Islands | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...subsidies. Over the years, taxpayers have funded the vast infrastructure that provides the water--dams, reservoirs, canals, locks, pumping stations, hydroelectric turbines, such as Washington State's massive Columbia Basin Project. The Federal Government picks up the tab, then bills farmers a sum equal to only a small portion of the actual cost of construction. Then it gives them 40 to 50 years to pay off their share--interest free. Estimates of the total irrigation subsidy since 1902 range from $18 billion to more than $75 billion, with most of that coming in the past decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: Fantasy Islands | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...billion in 1997. During the same period, profits shot up 228%, from $2.5 billion to $8.2 billion, while the company's income tax payments to the U.S. Treasury rose a modest 27%, from $1.1 billion to $1.4 billion. In the process, GE pared the U.S. portion of its income tax bill from 84% to 52%. At the same time, GE's income tax payments to foreign governments shot up 550%, from $200 million to $1.3 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: Fantasy Islands | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...Board's solution: leave a certain chunk of a family's assets out of the picture when calculating how much money they can afford to give up. The size of this portion is custom-tailored for a given family, based on the number of children and their ages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Board Considers Change in Financial Aid Assessment Formula | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

Knowing that this chunk is exempt from consideration should inspire families to save, though Hudson adds families are supposed to save for a portion of the college cost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Board Considers Change in Financial Aid Assessment Formula | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

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