Word: taxingly
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...groups on campus and that they are holding more activities and so require more funding. However, if the Undergraduate Council thinks that it is in the average student's best interest to increase our term bill, they are sorely mistaken. If a club tried to levy their own $30 tax on their members, we would find this outrageous. Yet the council is trying to do just that and worse. They are asking us to support groups financially that we are, for the most part, not even members of. I would much rather give $30 directly to the group...
...Iowa, where it counts, Forbes has pandered much more heavily to the Christian Coalition than has Bush, who thought a talk about Jesus on the beach with the Rev. Billy Graham would be enough. Forbes diluted his flat-tax message to appeal to religious activists by promising "a new birth of freedom"; that's his way of telling true believers they should be free to post the Ten Commandments in public schools and have only antiabortion judges appointed to the Supreme Court...
...underserved communities, aggressively promoting immunization programs and sometimes even building low-income housing, considered fundamental to good health. Ten percent of the nation's 4,800 hospitals (not including long-term and specialty-care centers) are Catholic, according to the American Hospital Association. They enjoy a nonprofit tax status, a financial advantage that some critics feel is unfair in the highly competitive health-care market...
...TAX BREAK Washington's top agency for ferreting out hidden assets, the IRS, last week dedicated itself to tracking down a new type of missing treasure: lost, abducted and runaway children. With help from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, the IRS will publish photos of missing children in its 1999 tax publications and instructions. One in six missing kids is found through such photos. So when your tax packet arrives this year, don't just toss it over to your accountant--look...
GIVING STOCK Thinking about charitable giving this holiday season? Instead of donating that old coat, consider donating stocks. Donations of stock can beat coats or even cash. Charities can sell the shares of donated stocks tax-free, even if the price has doubled over your cost. And donors get breaks too: no capital-gains tax, and a write-off for the market value of the stock...