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...Europe. More flexibility from the international community would ease their difficulties, but meanwhile Hamas must manage to fill its coffers or risk having that opprobrium turned its way. And there is scarce room for maneuver: Tel Aviv has suspended monthly payments of approximately $50 million in tax revenues, and won't talk to Hamas until it halts all attacks on Israel - including those by other factions. Most international capitals won't receive Hamas' leaders, and pledges of funding from Iran, Russia and some Arab countries, even if delivered, won't make up the financial shortfall. Prime Minister Ismail Haniya lashed...
...Project C.A.R.E., a new program run by the San Francisco communications start-up GrandCentral. C.A.R.E. is giving Shelton and hundreds of other homeless people free permanent numbers, which go to voicemail boxes. The plan may be thwarted, though, by the Federal Communications Commission, which is considering a $1 monthly tax on every U.S. phone number. GrandCentral CEO Craig Walker says the tax would make his model "economically impossible." Ironically, funds raised by the tax would go to the Universal Service Fund, which subsidizes phone service for poor households...
There is scarce room for maneuvering: most international capitals have chosen not to receive Hamas' leaders. Pledges of funding from a handful of Arab countries--even if delivered--wouldn't make up the financial shortfall. Israel has suspended monthly payments of approximately $50 million in tax and customs revenues it collects for the Palestinians. And it will not talk to Hamas until it halts attacks on Israel by all Palestinian factions. Even as Hamas, which has itself held to a cease-fire, tries to stem attacks by other militants, Israel says it will continue to retaliate, increasing economic damage...
...sure, there is still criticism of the special breaks royals receive. As part of the deal that saw her start paying income tax in 1993, the Queen arranged inheritance-tax exemptions for what she received from her mother, and what she will bequeath to Charles. But disclosure has usefully illuminated the distinction between her personal wealth and the Crown's. She used to be commonly described as Britain's richest person, with a fortune estimated at $7.6 billion by the Sunday Times Rich List in 1993, but last year's list pegs it at $507 million, making her 180th...
Patrick said that he does not support lowering the flat tax by 0.3 percent to 5 percent because it is “fiscally irresponsible...