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Loopholes Defined
Specific tax provisions that allow individuals or corporations to get out of part of their tax burden by engaging in actions favored by the government.
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Tucson region bankruptcies up 57%
Published January 7, 2009, 2:36 pm, Tucson Citizen
Many Tucson residents ended 2008 on a sour financial note as bankruptcy filings spiked in December after a lull in November.
TEXT: Lawmakers, officials, groups respond to State of State speech
Published January 7, 2009, 1:45 pm, WRGB Albany
In the past, governors would inspire us with their State of the State addresses, and then deliver more somber news in their budget proposals. This year, we've already heard the bad news. Last month, the Governor presented us with his budget plan.
Europe leads by example with climate change package compromise
Published January 7, 2009, 3:50 am, Energy Business Review
Against a backdrop of intransigence from Poland and Hungary, and to a slightly lesser extent from Germany and Italy, the European Parliament has voted in favor of a climate change package. However, the compromise is more generous to corporate interests than was originally anticipated and it allows member states to undertake most of their emissions reductions outside of Europe.
A way of life slips away
Published January 6, 2009, 12:06 am, Greensboro News & Record
T he Chesapeake Bay is not tar-black and dead. It is not bright-green and toxic. It looks just as beautiful as ever, come a sunrise in Annapolis or a sunset over Tangier Sound. What the Chesapeake has become is emptier. It has fewer crabs, oysters and watermen than it did 25 years ago, when government officials first pledged to restore its health. read more
New Legistaion Cracks Down On Pay-To-Play Politics
Published January 5, 2009, 3:44 pm, WTVO - WQRF Rockford
Rockford , IL- As Governor Blagojevich faces federal charges, a new state law is cracking down on pay-to-play politics. As of January 1st, anyone with a government contract worth $50,000 or more is banned from contributing to the office that awarded the contract.
China vows to clean up the internet
Published January 5, 2009, 1:51 pm, Infomatics
The Chinese government has named 19 web sites, including Google, as failing to remove ‘vulgar’ material such as pornography which it says is harming its citizens.
China vows to clean up the internet
Published January 5, 2009, 1:09 pm, vnunet.com
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Tuesday 6 January 2009 at 20:47:00 Purge of 'vulgar' sites to match ban on political ones The Chinese government has named 19 web sites, including Google.com, as failing to remove "vulgar" material such as pornography which it says is harming its citizens....
GCC-Singapore FTA offers hope amid crisis
Published January 4, 2009, 10:06 pm, Zawya
05 January 2009 DUBAI: As 2008 ended on a low amid a global financial crisis, the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Singapore formalized in December came as a whiff of fresh air.
GCC-Singapore FTA offers hope amid crisis
Published January 4, 2009, 9:06 pm, Zawya
05 January 2009 DUBAI: As 2008 ended on a low amid a global financial crisis, the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Singapore formalized in December came as a whiff of fresh air.
Public service in Driehaus' blood
Published January 3, 2009, 3:01 am, The Cincinnati Enquirer
He comes from a family that has been likened to a West Side version of the Kennedys - large, deeply ingrained in the Democratic Party, serving in the public arena and headed by a family patriarch who wanted to see his children succeed in politics.
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- School places loopholes targeted: A new admissions code for England aims to close loopholes that have allowed some schools to select by the back door.
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- You've Been Robbed: Campaign video aimed at closing tax loopholes used by the super-rich to avoid paying a fair share of taxes.
Mon Oct 27
- American Thinker: Senator Obama's Four Tax Increases for People Earning Under $250k: The first loophole was easy to find: Senator Obama doesn't "count&qu ot; allowing the Bush tax cuts to lapse as a tax increase. Unless the cuts are re-enacted, rates will automatically return to the 2000 level. Senator Obama claims that letting a tax cut lapse -- allowing the rates to return to a higher levels -- is not actually a "tax increase." ; It's just the lapsing of a tax cut. <<EXCELL ENT DISCUSSION> >
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Tue Oct 14
- Study says most corporations pay no U.S. income taxes | U.S. | Reuters: http://www.myf oxdc.com/myfox /pages/Content Detail?content Id=7704735
Wed Oct 8
- 14-year-old Iowa girl abandoned at Omaha hospital: Proof that having kids does not guarantee you actually want or love them: "Nebraska 's vaguely worded safe-haven law has already been exposed as ripe for abuse by allowing kids as old as 18 to be abandoned by their parents, but a new problem cropped up when a 14-year-old Iowa girl was brought across the Missouri River and left at an Omaha hospital." ;
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- Had Enough of Paying Huge CPC Costs?: In the video I just saw Erik Rockefeller will show you specifically why he quit using Adwords almost totally - and this is a person that’ ;s built his frotune with AdWords. He’s built a proprietary piece of software he privately created to ta...
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