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...plan envisions a Tysons Corner where 95% of its land will be within half a mile of a train station or within 600 ft. of shuttle routes designed to ferry passengers to Metro stops and neighboring suburbs. Money from an increase on the Dulles toll road and special tax districts will help Uncle Sam pay for the rail stations. Funds for bicycle paths, schools, police stations and storm-water management systems will likely come from the county, property owners and developers - who will be asked to pay extra for the privilege of helping Tysons build toward a goal of doubling...
...included in the House bill, as expected, is a requirement that employers provide health benefits to their workers, although the precise shape of that mandate is unclear. The smallest, low-wage firms would be exempted from that requirement, and the three House chairmen anticipate providing a new small-business tax credit to help others. It also includes a "pay or play" provision: those businesses that do not provide benefits would be forced to pay some percentage of their payroll - 5% or 6% is being talked about - into a fund for the uninsured. And it would prohibit insurers from discriminating against...
...biggest question unaddressed in the House outline is how they would actually pay for health-care reform. Specifically, there is no mention of an idea being kicked around in the Senate Finance Committee to impose new taxes on at least some of the employer-provided health benefits that workers now get tax-free. House sources say they are facing strong resistance from rank-and-file Democrats against that idea, and Rangel has previously expressed his opposition to such a funding measure...
...much the same reason that giving me a credit card was a bad idea: I love stuff and hate paying for it. And it turns out there are a lot of people just like me. On May 19, California voters knocked down all five of the budget-cutting and tax-raising propositions designed to save the state budget from being $21 billion short. We already had the worst credit rating of any state. Which means that if states were people, California would be Ed McMahon...
...This is the best month of May ever.' HELIO CASTRONEVES, race-car driver, on capturing his third Indianapolis 500 just weeks after being acquitted of tax evasion...