Word: taxed
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...their education proposals. Dukakis's plan, which would allow students to pay back student loans over their lifetime as a small percentage of salary, is designed for middle-class students, who as a group most rely on borrowing. Bush has announced a more modest proposal, which would create special tax-free savings bonds for future family education, yet exclude families with a combined salary of more than...
Poultry farmers, fishing fleets and cultivators of exotic flowers were wasted by Gilbert. Foreign-owned shoe and clothing factories that had been lured to Jamaica's tax-free zones suffered heavy water and structural damage. The unemployment rate, already 22%, was expected to soar as jobs vanished in the wind and rain. It was easy to see a metaphor of the island's economy in the plight of the smashed Kingston bank whose checks, in the aftermath, were suddenly caught up in a wind and scattered all over the downtown. "There were checks blowing around everywhere," retired Superstar Racing...
...would be required to provide a basic insurance package to workers, and to pay a portion, perhaps 80 percent, of the annual premium. The coverage would pay for hospital stays, clinical visits, tests and diagnostic services, prenatal and pediatric care, and mental health care. Dukakis' plan would also provide tax breaks to assist small businesses in establishing insurance plans...
Bush called Dukakis' plan "a prescription for financial disaster." Yet, the U.S. treasury would suffer no net loss from the plan. Savings on medicare payments would compensate for lost revenue from the tax breaks to small businesses. The total cost to business is estimated at $27 billion, only $10 billion more than they currently...
...Councillor David E. Sullivan said last night that until the city manager's office had assessed Harvard's property and weighed the relative merits of both the existing arrangement between the city and the University and the proposed one to tax the housing, he could not say which plan he endorsed...