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...economic policy. He probably believes that he's a compassionate conservative, even though he has allowed every antipoverty program he favors to be eviscerated by Congress. This week's outrage is the crippling of AmeriCorps, which he had pledged to increase in size. He probably believes that his tax cuts for the wealthy will help reduce the mammoth $455 billion budget deficit (which doesn't include the cost of Iraq), even though Ronald Reagan found that the exact opposite was true and had to raise taxes twice to repair the damage done by his 1981 cuts. And Bush probably believed...
...economy is slowly recovering, making stock dividends more secure. And companies from Microsoft to Tiffany are initiating or boosting dividends to take advantage of new laws that apply the same tax rate to income from dividends and capital gains--just 15%, down from the previous top marginal rate of 38.6% on dividends...
When Terry Neese cuts her charity checks each year, she's thinking about more than a tax deduction. One beneficiary, the March of Dimes, has deep personal significance for her. Neese, 54, learned of birth defects firsthand when her grandchild Emily, 8, was born with one arm shorter than the other. "In addition to giving to nonprofits that have important meaning to me," says Neese, who sits on the local board of March of Dimes in Oklahoma City, Okla., "I've done my homework to make sure these groups were getting the job done...
...have more impact giving to a smaller organization. But don't let a large nonprofit turn you off from a cause you believe in. If you're vigilant, you'll see your dollars do good in either case. And at the end of the year, that extra tax deduction will be a well-earned bonus...
...Asserted that women without kids don't deserve government pensions, as they haven't contributed anything to society. "It is actually strange," Mori mused, "that tax money looks after women who lived freely without having a single child...