After these changes, negotiated with the mining companies themselves, the tax raised very little revenue, and no longer covered the spending measures nominally funded from it.
Known as Medicare, it is now nominally funded by an income tax surcharge known as the Medicare levy, currently set at 1.5%.
And, because it nominally funds Social Security and Medicare, some liberals regard its continuance as essential to the survival of those programs.
Indeed, instead of coming to Khalidi's defense against these and other racist and transparently false attacks against him, the Obama campaign has instead launched a counterattack, pointing out that the International Republican Institute, a government-funded foundation nominally headed by McCain, funded a project founded by Khalidi known as the Center for Palestine Research and Studies.
He also is a director of each nominally independent fund; that means he is supposed to act on investors' behalf and hold down the management fees that get paid to his own company.
Most South Ossetians have Russian citizenship, and their nominally independent country is governed and funded out of Moscow.
But the budget reveals the asset recycling program will be funded by redirecting monies nominally attached to the former Labor government's two infrastructure funds: the Building Australia Fund (BAF) ($2.4bn) and the Education Investment Fund EIFF) ($3.5bn).
Health care is nominally free under the Commonwealth government's Medicare program, which is funded by deductions from taxable personal income, but the whole system has long been in a state approaching collapse because of inadequate funding.
Amad Essa al-Sheikh, the head of the Consultative Council of the new Islamic Front, told Al Jazeera that it would work with the Western-backed opposition-in-exile and its fighting force nominally under the control of General Salam Idris, the Supreme Military Council, whose numbers have dwindled as fighters have joined better funded rebel brigades.
It is true such funds have their own boards, nominally elected by fund shareholders, but in practice the funds are run and marketed by the management company.
The expedition was nominally led by the 18-year-old Navarrese king Henry d'Albret, whose kingdom had been invaded by Ferdinand II of Aragon in 1512, but the army was effectively commanded by André de Foix and funded and equipped by the French.
