…case that there has been a social compact between one generation of Americans and the next: to pass along an inheritance of a stronger country full of greater promise and possibility. And that social compact has been protected at great…
…of rising debt loads poor students must incur to get a college education, a slowdown in small-business formation, and trends in inheritances, among other issues. But in many ways the issues she leaves out are more instructive. In particular…
…less enthusiasm among labor and African-Americans, among other core Democratic voters. No one would deny the admirable side of the Mugwump inheritance: the policies it helped to implement, the idealism it represents, the commitment to principles like clean campaigning…
…one can argue that Clinton benefits from the association, but the whole point of a political “dynasty” is the inheritance – some are born into powerful families, and they parlay that status to advance their public-service ambitions. That’s not…
…of the Federal Estate Tax.” Note, there are still 19 states plus the District of Columbia that impose their own state versions of death taxes (estate and/or inheritance taxes). Vermont is one; it has an exemption of $2.75…
…in the mid-1960s, Sanders, his then-wife and his brother pooled some inheritance money and bought a small piece of the dream. "We had never been to Vermont in our lives; we just drove up," Sanders says. "We bought…
…left the Oval office. The foreign-policy preoccupations of the Clinton years presented themselves as moral dilemmas – such as Bosnia or Rwanda – rather than as threats to national security. Mr Clinton’s economic inheritance was similarly golden. The frightening deficits…
…gay partnerships as men were denied access to their dying partners in hospitals, were evicted from the homes they shared when loved ones died and had no inheritance rights. The initial response came in the form of domestic partnerships. It…
…In this novel, Grace Monroe, a newlywed 1950's London socialite, receives an unexpected inheritance from a complete stranger, Madame d' Orsey. Though unsure of d' Orsey's identity upon receiving the inheritance, Monroe sets out on a life-changing…
…long, ranging from more infrastructure spending (with new measures to improve project management on federal infrastructure deals), more preschool, closing corporate tax and inheritance tax loopholes, curbing the deductibility of executive pay, a tax cut for middle class workers, more…
…in 2008 she was still working on Wall Street – Chelsea has finally, openly embraced her inheritance as part of one of America’s most powerful political dynasties. Clinton-watchers and family friends say she is certain to be a visible…
…1776 by Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards > A Mother by Maxim Gorky adapted by Constance Congdon > A Number by Caryl Churchill > The Voysey Inheritance by Harley Granville-Barker adapted by David Mamet > The Rainmaker by N…
…the progressive tax policies that were needed to finance them did enormous damage to the old estates and great fortunes: many rich people, after paying their income and inheritance taxes, didn’t have enough money left to replenish their capital…
…the progressive tax policies that were needed to finance them did enormous damage to the old estates and great fortunes: many rich people, after paying their income and inheritance taxes, didn’t have enough money left to replenish their capital…
…role of rising debt loads poor students must > incur to get a college education, a slowdown in small-business formation, > and trends in inheritances, among other issues. > > > > But in many ways the issues she…
…capital gains (such as profit from sale of a personal residence), and any lump-sum insurance payments or inheritances, such as those from a deceased spouse. We have no way of calculating how much all these kinds of receipts would…
…Obama, in Tuesday's State of the Union, plans to propose raising the capital gains rate on the wealthy and eliminating a tax break on inheritances. The plan is a nonstarter with Republicans, but Obama will make the case for…
…s season: Aaron Rodgers makes the game-winning pass (Raj Mehta/USA Today Sports) GET SMART FAST: Leading scientists called for a moratorium on making inheritable changes to the human genome so that the gene pool does not get altered…
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