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Another option growing in popularity: high-deductible health plans coupled with a reimbursement mechanism, most often a health-savings account. Younger and healthier workers increasingly select such coverage, which combines a deductible of at least $1,000 with a tax-deferred savings account to which employers sometimes contribute. Chicago-based accounting firm Blackman Kallick offered its more than 200 employees the plan this year. "About 10% chose it," says human-resources manager Suzanne Palombi, "many more than we anticipated." For Blackman, that equates to a 33% drop in premium costs for those workers...
Wetterling, whose son was abducted in 1989, won sympathy when the House page scandal broke. Bachmann has attacked her as a tax-and-spend liberal...
...where is all the money coming from to buy, and do we have enough of it? According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, we earned average after-tax incomes of about $22,000 per person in 2004 and spent about $17,000 per person. That means Americans save very little of what they earn and end up paying for much of what they buy on credit. "Credit cards have allowed a whole different way of buying," says Cynthia Jasper, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "People are saving a lot less and spending...
...measure passes, oil drilled in California, the world's sixth largest economy and the fourth largest oil-producing state in the U.S., would be taxed at a rate from 1.5% to 6%, depending on global crude prices. The proceeds, capped at $4 billion, would fund a state agency to sponsor research and projects in wind, solar, ethanol and other energy alternatives. The idea of putting a tax on oil extraction is not new - both Texas and Alaska have one - but California's idea to use the money for alternative energy projects...
...will see them funded is by Wall Street. The government doesn't have enough money." That may be true. But Khosla, a self-described "free marketeer" and "fiscal Republican" opposed to subsidies, is co-chair and a contributor to Proposition 87, a statewide initiative that would impose a tax on oil companies for drilling in California - and use the $4 billion raised over 10 years to fund the development of "cleaner" and "cheaper" energy. "Proposition 87 is 100% a subsidy," says Cleantech blogger and energy investor Neal Dikeman, who is opposed to Prop. 87's call for the creation...