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Both candidates' plans raise deficit, tax group says
Los Angeles TimesThe competing tax plans laid out by Barack Obama and John McCain would both add trillions of dollars to the national debt and could add to the tax system's complexity, a nonpartisan tax research group concluded Wednesday in a newly released report....Tags: Political Candidates, Personal Income, Elections, Barack Obama, John McCain
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How the housing bill would help
$300 billion in loan guarantees for mortgages refinanced to make homeowner payments affordable. $3.9 billion in grants to the hardest-hit communities for buying and fixing foreclosed property. $15 billion in housing tax breaks, including for low-...Tags: Freddie Mac, Real Estate Buyers, Fannie Mae, Personal Income, Mortgages
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House Responds to Housing Crisis
Los Angeles TimesThe House approved a sweeping plan Wednesday that responds to the most serious housing crisis since the Great Depression by providing a federal backstop for struggling mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and aid to homeowners facing foreclosure....Tags: Freddie Mac, Nancy Pelosi, House, George Bush, Foreclosures
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Lake Bluff house-church tax case to get state's attorney's help
Chicago Tribune reporterFinancial investigators with the Lake County state's attorney's office plan to assist the village of Lake Bluff in its appeal of a property-tax exemption the state granted last month to a resident who contends he turned his lakefront mansion into a...Tags: Lake Bluff, George Michael, Church and State Relations, Shore Acres
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Still stalled
Now, weren't those back-ups on I-64 fun this weekend? Great for tourism, and what a grand message to send to the business world: Visit the Peninsula and watch the bumper in front of you. The General Assembly has met repeatedly over multiple years, in...Tags: Transportation, Building Material, Metal and Mineral, Sales, Timothy M. Kaine
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Rebates Make Sense
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative will essentially impose a "green" tax on power plant operators based on greenhouse gas emissions from their fossil fuel-burning plants. This tax will be passed on to consumers in the form of higher electric bills....Tags: Alternative Energy, Government, Executive Branch, Rocky Hill, Richard Blumenthal
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Chicago school officials to dip into reserves to fund budget
Chicago Tribune reporterChicago Public Schools leaders won't ask homeowners to pay more in property taxes this year and instead will raid the district's reserves by $100 million, cut hundreds of non-classroom jobs and streamline bus routes in a move that could mean new start...Tags: Government, Elementary Schools, Chicago Transit Authority, Property, Heads of State
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Housing bill heads to Senate; Bush withdraws veto threat
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe House approved a sweeping plan Wednesday to ease the country's most serious housing crisis since the Great Depression by providing aid to homeowners facing foreclosure and a federal backstop for struggling mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....Tags: Freddie Mac, Nancy Pelosi, Elton Gallegly, Parliament, San Dimas
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Iowa lawmakers urge federal tax relief
Iowa's entire congressional delegation has joined other members of Congress in introducing a nearly $4 billion plan for federal tax relief for flood, tornado and severe storm victims. Sen. Charles Grassley, a Republican, and Sen. Tom Harkin, a Democrat,...Tags: Government, House, Tom Harkin, Laws, National Government
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Failed Dillon recall effort tries again
A taxpayer who wants to recall Democratic House Speaker Andy Dillon is trying to revive the failed effort in federal court. State election officials ruled that not enough valid voter signatures were turned in by recall supporters to put the issue on the...Tags: Voting, Court Administration, House, Local Authority, Regional Elections
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