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...government favors certain types of people. "Basically, people who haven't got a lot," he says. "But I haven't got a lot either. I've got a big mortgage and I work really hard - 70 or 80 hours a week - and they take a helluva lot of tax from me. But I never seem to see much for it." At this moment, the chill wind feels like a dark foreboding for the nine-year prime ministership of Helen Clark...
...country through what is the worst international financial crisis for more than 70 years," she said in a televised debate with Key on Oct. 14. But many New Zealanders are buying National's line that the Clark government squandered the boom times by granting only a single round of tax cuts in nine years. Consequently, New Zealand's best and brightest are fleeing the country in droves (1 in 4 of its university graduates lives overseas) for places like Australia, where wages are one-third higher...
...have to know more about it. I specifically want to know what the benefits would be for Cambridge, and the endowment tax would be one way of looking at it. We’ve always said that we do have to look at the state regulation about how its universities are not taxed...
...down to the last dollar, so we have about $94 million in what they would call “free cash.” That puts us in a position where we don’t have to look at layoffs or cutting programs or services or increasing the tax that we levy on our residents. The presence of the universities, just in terms of the intellectual capital, the people that it brings into the city that take advantage of our goods and services, the growth potential really contributes to the tax base. Cambridge is in an extraordinarily good place...
...McCain has poured money and energy into the state in the final weeks, spending three critical days in mid-October here and hammering Obama as Barack the Redistributionist, an old-fashioned tax-and-spend liberal who wants to "spread the wealth around" and can't be trusted on national security. McCain was back in Pennsylvania earlier this week, while Palin arrived for a series of appearances on Tuesday. Both are likely to visit again before Election Day. "It's wonderful to fool the pundits, because we're going to win in Pennsylvania," McCain told supporters in Hershey on Tuesday...