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You can do it, Home Depot doesn't want to pay
We've all seen the day laborers who congregate outside stores like Home Depot to wait for work. Some local governments have been requiring those businesses to provide facilities such as restrooms and security staff — and Home Depot has had enough. The home improvement giant has been lobbying for help from Washington, hoping to insert language into the looming federal immigration bill that would prohibit local governments from mandating that businesses accommodate the day laborers. Cities have argued that certain businesses bring certain land-use costs with them and it's not fair to taxpayers to have to pick up the tab.
06/27/07 04:28 AM PT Posted on June 27, 2007 4:28 AM PTPacking on the tobacco tax
Hey smokers, will it make you feel better knowing it's for the kids? The Wall Street Journal says Senators are talking about hiking the federal cigarette tax to $1 a pack. Right now, it's 39 cents, plus state taxes. Democrats want to use the extra revenue to add $50 billion to the State Children's Health Insurance Program, also known as S-Chip, which provides health insurance to low-income children.
Big government payoffs for some dead farmers
Here's a whole new twist on the notion of passive income: The government's been writing farm subsidy checks to farmers who are dead. A farmer’s estate is allowed to collect farm payments for two years after the farmer’s death while the heirs sort out the business. But when that time is up, Department of Agriculture officials are meant to check that the farm is still operating, and that those running it are entitled to continued subsidies. According to the GAO report, 40 percent of the time the department hasn’t been verifying that information — in one case, paying out $400,000 to a particular farm whose managers had omitted to mention that a major shareholder had died years before.
07/23/07 07:02 AM PT Posted on July 23, 2007 7:02 AM PTLatest Posts
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