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...world's wealthiest nation is booming at such a solid rate that the very measure of wealth-money-is harder to come by than in many months...
...Rome, but the city fathers made the mistake of siding with Pompey against Julius Caesar. For this the city was fined 300,000 measures of oil annually. Later still it became the home town of a Roman emperor, Septimius Severus, who made it one of the grandest and wealthiest cities of the empire. Nubian slaves, lions for the Roman arenas, ivory and African gold flowed through Leptis Magna into the civilized world, until the harbor silted up. Marauding Vandals sacked the city. Then, in A.D. 523 Berber raiders depopulated it. Sand crept in and swelled through the streets,, clogged...
...fretful one. But nowhere is it more irritating than in New York City, into which about 370,000 commuters pour each weekday by train, bus and car. And nowhere is it more downright infuriating than on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, serving the nation's wealthiest commuter area, only a few years ago one of the best of all commuter lines-and now one of the very worst...
...reasons why Michigan, one of the nation's wealthiest states, has reached a point where it cannot pay its employees are both complex and controversial. The simplest explanation is that expenditures over the last three years have exceeded incoming revenue...
Borrowing Trouble. Much of Michigan's financial trouble did indeed lie far, far beyond Soapy Williams in the state's dusty, archaic constitutional tax structure. Michigan, the nation's twelfth wealthiest state in terms of per capita income, collects about $1 billion in state taxes. But five-sixths of the revenues from the 3% sales tax-biggest income source-must be turned back to city and town governments and school districts. All gasoline tax revenue must be spent on the highways. Result: the state must meet costs of state government, the state universities, the state police...