The revenue from the excess leverage tax or thin capitalization tax could be used to help pay for broader tax reductions for the nonfinancial corporate sector.
In all, she claims, $120 billion a year could be wrung out of the health system, money that could be used to pay for broader coverage.Mr Obama's plan, unveiled on May 29th, borrows from both his rivals'.
A 15-city analysis by the Consumer Federation of America found that such drivers are being offered online quotes for minimum, state-mandated liability coverage that exceed what most good drivers can expect to pay for broader policies that include collision and comprehensive coverage.
Neiman and Sununu both dismissed the relatively low rate of return on the first TARP repayments, which they said are a small price to pay for broader economic calm.
Government secrecy, said Eugene Volokh, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, "ends up being part of the price you pay for having broad speech protection".
Mr. McCall suggested that Mr. Golisano was being simplistic in promoting the idea of shifting lottery revenue from the General Fund to pay for a broad college scholarship program.
Dr. Koppelman said that was too little too pay for a broad array of studies and that at least $700,000 would be needed.
Countering the push by big labor is the United States Chamber of Commerce, which has raised nearly $25 million from its members to pay for a broad effort to reach business owners by mail, telephone, the Internet and workplace contacts, said William C. Miller Jr., the chamber's political director.
With Ms. Sebelius's decision on Wednesday, the Obama administration is taking a more socially conservative stance on Plan B, one closer to that of the Bush administration than to many of its own liberal supporters, even as President Obama has taken a tougher position on higher taxes on the wealthy to pay for a broad payroll tax cut — a stance popular with his political base.
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