Word: taxes
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...Perot campaign, and states’ right-ers agitated by the mere idea of a National Tea Party Convention. Some want to form a third party, and others want to infiltrate the Grand Old Party. They are united by a dislike of President Obama, the debt, future tax increases, and the bank bailout, but currently little else...
...some point [research spending] can’t keep growing more than the economy,” he says. “I certainly would have other priorities, as well as science, as to how my tax dollars get spent...
...been clamoring for), a new emphasis on free trade, a total reversal of his party's traditional positions on nuclear power and offshore drilling. In Baltimore, Obama reminded the Republicans that his $787 billion stimulus package had comprised elements they'd normally support - a $288 billion middle-class tax cut, $275 billion to bail out financially strapped states and an extensive infrastructure plan. "A lot of you," he noted, dryly, "have gone to appear at ribbon cuttings for the same projects you voted against." (See pictures of Barack Obama's first year in the White House...
...wouldn't be the first time the German government struck such a deal. Two years ago, Germany paid an informant $6.3 million to obtain stolen bank details for several hundred members of the LGT banking group who were suspected of evading taxes by putting their money in bank accounts in Liechtenstein. That deal reportedly helped the government recover $250 million in lost revenue by the end of last year. One of the suspects, Klaus Zumwinkel, the former head of Deutsche Post, was convicted of tax evasion and received a two-year suspended prison sentence and a fine of $1.4 million...
...Merkel agreed. However distasteful Germany's leader may have found the deal, she said on Monday that the end, in this case, may justify the means. "Just like any reasonable person, I am in favor of punishing tax evasion," she told reporters in Berlin. "In order to do this, everything should be done to get hold of this data...