Walgreen said its selling and general expenses grew 9percentt in the quarter as it opened 212 stores, and profit margins dipped because of greater expense provisions.
Lower tax rates on coupon-clipping income than on wages for work, the law that allows those hedge-fund titans to treat their work income as investment income ("carried interest") for tax purposes, the myriad "legitimate business expense" provisions of the tax code under which the rest of us subsidize the high life in executive suites and corporate jets — these, too, are "entitlements".
"If you look at the business expensing provision, there you put it on for two years and then take it off.
One official at the luncheon said that some Democratic senators from more conservative states favored an increase to $9 an hour, but including the expensing provision was enough of a sweetener to bring them behind the $10.10 proposal.
"Based on past experience with similar tax incentive programs, the Treasury estimates that the 100 percent expensing provision in the bill could support $50 billion in new investment, while other outside estimates have projected an even larger impact," said Amy Brundage, a White House spokeswoman.
The legal expenses provision will allow each of the six national party committees - three Democratic Party and three Republican Party committees - to raise checks of $97,200 per donor, per year to cover various legal expenses.
Strenuous efforts were made to ensure that anyone agreeing to participate was actually assessed, including payment of travel expenses, provision of transport to and from the clinic if required, a choice of days to attend the clinic, multiple contact attempts from the ET2DS team by both telephone and mail, and reminder telephone calls on the day preceding clinic appointments.
The language of both the building funds and the legal expenses provisions create the opportunity for misuse of the new $97,200 contributions.
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And Obama's relentless pursuit of health care reform, even at the expense of provisions that liberals held sacred, may well place him alongside F.D.R. and Lyndon Johnson in the pantheon of progressive presidents who were able to substantially amend the nation's social contract.
