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Folks in Allendale don't have extra money to spend. So the town's already meager tax base is eroding. If any of Allendale's 38 employees leaves, there will be no replacement. Jackson's dreams of a new police station are dashed. Now, he fears many of the remaining residents will leave. The other day, he showed up in town with two employment applications to cut grass at a nearby nuclear power plant. "Loads of people came up to me grabbing applications," Jackson says. Still, he's hopeful some of the federal government's stimulus money will help Allendale...
...budget relies on $1.46 billion in federal stimulus aid, cancels a planned $97 million transfer to a state rainy day fund, and makes over $1.8 billion in cuts to state programs and services. Unlike the governor’s plan, which proposed $587 million in new taxes, the House plan does not include any new taxes nor does it draw from the remaining $1.3 billion in the rainy day fund.“In crafting this budget, the Committee was faced with an array of distasteful choices as a result of the global fiscal crisis,” wrote committee...
...illegally within our borders, American society faces several problems. These illegal laborers tend to accept lower wages and zero benefits and are often reluctant to report abuse or maltreatment—each contributing to the propagation of social ills. In addition, the federal government is losing billions in potential tax revenue from these workers. The solution, according to the president, would be to offer a path of legal residency to illegal immigrants currently living in the U.S. And, while such a bold proposal is sure to cause a stir on Capitol Hill, the logic behind this solution is fundamentally sound...
...April 15 was tax day, people across the country—from Washington, D.C., to Boston—took this opportunity to get their tea bagging on. Whether wearing tea bags as strange hats or harassing CNN reporters (tip: Wonkette), conservatives have been out protesting the Obama administration's tax and spend liberalness. While last time according to Wikipedia "the protest was not a dispute of high taxes," this time it very much...
That's the 1998 law that enacted a "Taxpayer's Bill of Rights." You say it made tax collectors less aggressive and took some of the teeth...