The Internal Revenue Code states that taxes apply to all income, except for exclusions granted by Congress like the tax-exempt interest from municipal bonds.
Because at the end of the day this is what equality looks like: a just-released memo from the Office of Personnel Management granting equal benefits to all federal employees, ending the marital exclusion system that granted health insurance, life insurance and survivor's benefits and legions (over 1100) of federally protected rights to some -- not all -- marriages.
Then, just a few days later, another front-pager featured a pair of equally prominent experts explaining their smackdown of the A.P.A.'s proposal to eliminate the "bereavement exclusion" — the two months granted the grieving before their mourning can be classified as "major" depression.
[ Note added after publication: This exclusion applied to fellowships granted before 1989. See the Jan 2, 2003 PDN News for more information.].
What the district court overlooks, however, is that Mason's discussion continues: "... the militia of the future day may not consist of all classes, high and low, and rich and poor; but they may be confined to the lower and middle classes of the people, granting exclusion to the higher classes of the people...
From the outside, the Australia camp is not looking the happiest right now – and rightly so after a defeat like that – but the debate over Brad Haddin's exclusion at Edgbaston, after being granted personal leave at Lord's, needs to be put to bed or it will rumble on.
George Bush attempted to mollify the EU by granting exclusions from steel tariffs of up to 30% announced in March.
If a new employee had continuous coverage previously, with a gap in coverage no longer than 63 days, that employee was granted a waiver for that exclusion period, equal to the time spent on the previous plan.
In summer 1989 I came hot foot from Warsaw and Budapest to visit a small circle of dissident friends in East Berlin, having finally been granted an East German visa after long exclusion.
