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Clinton's plan not only raises the top corporate tax rate to 36%, but also restores much of the fiscal macrame that enriches lawyers and tax accountants. The real estate industry, a staunch Clinton ally, makes out very nicely. A proposal to limit the mortgage-interest deduction for upper-income taxpayers "received serious consideration" until late last week, Bentsen said. But it eventually "fell out" of Clinton's package because a limit even on mortgages above $300,000 might depress expensive housing markets. "What about New York, where so many of the mortgages are more than $300,000?" Bentsen asked...
...think Steve Kalkanis is a great candidate," said staunch Kalkanis supporter, David L. Duncan '93, who lost in the fall chair elections to Heinicke. "I think he is not only a hard worker, [but] he is [also] a perfectly respectable and trustworthy steward of the Undergraduate Council...
...million profit, one of the richest corporate paydays ever. Eisner alone raked in $202 million. The executives cashed in their options, which were set to expire in 1994, to avoid the tax increases that Bill Clinton has pledged to ask Congress for next year. While both men were staunch Clinton supporters, his proposed tax on wealthy individuals could have cost them an extra $20 million if they had waited to cash in their options. In addition, Disney officials said enactment of Clinton's corporate- tax proposals could also have cost the company as much as $100 million if the executives...
...thought that was a good story." Some of the toughest stories about Clinton have emerged from the liberal New York Times and Los Angeles Times. Bush's two most ferocious critics, syndicated columnists William Safire of the New York Times and George Will of the Washington Post, are staunch members of his own party. That summarizes the deepest objection most politicians have to journalists -- not that they are liberal, nor that they are conservative, but that they are stubbornly individualistic and persistent...
...Walsh--a staunch defender of developer rightsand opponent of rent control--was indicted with 18others for allegedly making false down payments oncondominium projects. to inflate prices and tosecure larger mortgage loans for other projects