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...debt, a more attractive way to raise money and restore investor confidence by drawing attention to companies fit enough to boost cash payouts. The plan also encourages companies to stop dodging taxes, because only fully taxed profits could be paid as taxfree dividends. Some form of dividend-tax relief will almost surely survive any political horse trading. Here's a guide to investment winners and losers...
...have a thick political skin. The marginal-rate cuts, as Bush will point out in every speech from now until spring, were already passed by Congress once (with bipartisan support, no less); why not start enjoying them now? The increases in child-care credits and marriage-penalty relief (not to mention, and Bush will, the immediate dropping of the 15 percent tax bracket to 10 percent) offer something for every hard-working middle-class family of swing voters. And the elimination of the "double" tax on dividends, while hardly the panacea the White House likes to crack...
...fact quite familiar. Remember those 10-year income tax rate reductions he got passed in 2001? Bush wants them all this year, retroactive to January 1. "Speeding up the income tax cuts, we will speed up the pace of economic recovery and job creation," Bush said. "If tax relief is good enough for Americans three years from now, it's good enough for Americans now." Tough to argue with that...
...House Democrats, meanwhile, have an actual short-term economic stimulus plan: a fast-acting, temporary, perfectly reasonable combination of rebate checks, fiscal relief for states and short-term investment inducements with a net 10-year cost, they say, of about $36 billion. It would provide a measurable short-term boost to the economy. It won't break the budget. But as the Republicans gird for the spring's big battle, the White House seems to betting on two things besides Bill Frist and his slight numerical edge in the Senate. One, that people will overlook the costs when the budget...
Still, Evans’ victory in the 200-yard individual medley in 2:06.01 came as a welcome relief...