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...Forbes' plan would do little to disabuse taxpayers of the notion that the rich get a better deal from the tax system. Under his proposal, an investor in Boca Raton, Florida, who racks up $500,000 in income from bonds, stock dividends and capital gains would pay no income tax at all, while a teacher in Detroit earning $50,000 would pay $6,290. Because Forbes has yet to release all the details of his proposal, it is impossible to evaluate how it would affect middle-class Americans. However, an analysis of Representative Dick Armey's 17% flat tax done...
...hear its critics talk, W.R. Grace & Co., based in Boca Raton, Florida, is nothing less than a den of international pirates. Its crime: patenting a pesticide made from seeds of the Indian neem tree. "Genetic colonialism," thunders the self-proclaimed scientific watchdog Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, who is leading a coalition of 200 scientific, academic and farm organizations from 37 countries that filed a petition last week to have the patent revoked. Not only is Grace's pesticide based on an ancient and widely known extraction process, the coalition claims, but it will force Indian...
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Members of Congress recently filed their 1993 financial-disclosure forms, which reveal the number of free trips they took. While the travel -- much of it with spouses -- comes in the midst of lobby reform, our representatives ( still managed to cover a lot of territory, from Switzerland to Boca Raton, Florida, thanks to the largess of corporations, think tanks and legislative service organizations...