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Money has a lot to do with that. It has dead-locked the political process and stacked it in favor of the wealthiest interests. Ineffectual policies regarding the environment, tax reform, health care, energy and campaign finance all result from the undue influence of these interests...
McCarthy stressed the importance of reducing the national debt and proposed several policies, including higher duties on imports. He also stressed the need for an increase in income tax for the wealthiest Americans, a move which he said would force the rich "back into the market...
...White House, Bush assured Republican leaders that he will veto the bill, which would raise taxes on the wealthiest 800,000 people to pay for the tax cut for 31 million...
...world's wealthiest woman shows up at the impoverished village of her birth and offers improvements beyond imagination, plus a fortune for each man, woman and child. There is one catch: the townspeople must murder their popular mayor-elect. In his youth he seduced and abandoned a poor girl so he could marry a little money. Now old and rich, she wants vengeance. She believes everyone has a price, and she is right. Friedrich Durrenmatt's morality play THE VISIT seemed shockingly cynical when the Lunts brought it to Broadway in the '50s. In a sad measure of the disillusioning...
...senior executives surveyed last summer by the consulting firm Noble Lowndes said they support such a plan. To help pay for it, Congress should eliminate the $53,400 income cap on the payroll tax that funds Social Security. While this would sharply increase payroll taxes for the wealthiest, such a change represents a more equitable way of apportioning the burden, which now falls more heavily on lower-income workers. Removing the cap would provide an estimated $25 billion in new funds for the universal plan. Congress should then shift the entire federal Medicaid budget to the universal-health program, which...