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...cases is so slight that critics call it spray and pray, a reference to their hopes that no one will peek too closely. "You can't believe what goes on," a government official long involved with the coal industry told TIME, blaming Congress for its role in perpetuating the handout. "The people who spend the tax money don't have a clue." The IRS launched an investigation last June into the "scientific validity of the test procedures" used to measure compliance with the minimal standards, but the synfuels credit has enough support in Congress that members have tried (and failed...
...development lends intellectual ballast to the campaign. But it did little to reassure conservative Republicans, whose votes could well be split by other candidates in the race. Buffett has donated primarily to Democrats--including Hillary Clinton--in the past and has criticized President Bush's tax cuts as a handout for the rich. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal last week, Buffett committed nothing short of heresy by suggesting that California's property taxes, rolled back under 1978's iconic Proposition 13, should be higher...
...They just gave him the medicine and he took it,” Jane Gu said. “I did get a record from the doctor and I got a pharmacy handout, but the doctor didn’t tell him anything. The pharmacy handout didn’t mention anything about such a serious problem. That’s a very vague kind of handout that really didn’t do enough to alert the travelers what...
...Still Fly To Dublin A bad week for Irish budget airline Ryanair: a German court ordered the airline to drop the name Düsseldorf for an airport some 70 km outside of the city. Then a French court determined that a 31.4 million handout Ryanair received from a Strasbourg chamber of commerce to help set up flight services to London was illegal...
...Romney-Healy team. Gabriel J. Toussant, vice-chair of the Romney Diversity Committee, said minorities were tired of a party that “just pays lip service to you. They need to know that there is another party that gives you a good start, not a handout...