Word: taxed
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...many are thankful that the state has so far dodged the recessionary bullet. With an unemployment rate of 5.6%, well below the 6.7% national rate, the Lone Star State continues to add jobs - 230,000 for the past 12 months as of the end of October. And while sales-tax receipts, a major source of revenue for state and local government, are no longer growing at double-digit rates, they were still up almost 5% in November over the same time last year. Perhaps the best holiday news for Texans, who see long-distance drives as a way of life...
...Obesity tax n.-- A 15% tax on sweetened sodas proposed by New York Governor David Paterson to help close the state's nearly $15 billion budget deficit...
USAGE: "The so-called obesity tax would generate an estimated $404 million a year. Milk, juice, diet soda and bottled water would be exempt from the tax." --New York Times...
...read Ponnuru's essay with great interest. His party has been repudiated because the American people have finally come to the realization that, since Ronald Reagan, the Republicans have gone out of their way to take money away from the poor and give it to the rich through tax breaks, deregulation and Executive Orders. Voting for Republicans is voting against most people's self-interest. If you throw in the death of Americans and Iraqis due to incompetence and illegal wars there is nothing left to love in the Republican Party. If you add the illegal wiretaps and jailing...
...think the current structure is morally bankrupt." - on the fact that tax-supported school funding varies depending on a community's wealth, Chicago Defender, March...