"It is difficult to understand the everyday cost of these regulations and the climate agenda until you have to pay electric bills, purchase groceries, put gas in your car, " said Sen.
The bill could make it harder for many Americans to pay their bills and purchase necessities like food and clothing, if they aren't able to reach into their pockets and pull out a card to pay for their purchases.
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M-PESA, launched in 2007, provides banking transactions without the need to visit a bank branch by using mobile phones and 19, 500 agents where customers can deposit and withdraw money, pay bills, purchase airtime and transfer money to other users and nonusers.
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There are about 5 billion mobile phone users in the world, and MasterCard is providing them access to traditional financial services like the ability to transfer funds, pay bills and purchase goods and services at brick-and-mortar stores or through e-commerce websites through a device they already own.
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Other people are of course free to purchase T-Bills and a few financial players do have their reasons for doing so.
As it piled up dollar reserves, China didn't invest them at home but sent them back to the U.S. to purchase T-bills and Fannie Mae mortgage-backed securities.
Since I first wrote about gun liability insurance in the wake of the Newtown massacre, three states Connecticut, Massachusetts and California have introduced bills to require that gun owners purchase liability insurance.
Managers of acquired companies were instructed to prepay bills and delay recognizing revenue until after the purchase closed to make it look like earnings had magically increased under Tyco's ownership.
She says she's willing to compromise so bills like Association Health Plans that would allow small business to purchase insurance in pools finally make it into law.
Often, the distinction is made that quantitative easing implies the purchase of longer-term Treasury bonds rather than short term Treasury bills.
Under the bills passed by the House and the Senate, most Americans would be required to purchase health insurance, with the government providing tax credits to subsidize the cost to low- and middle-income Americans.
In 2001, for example, he signed bills that raised the sales tax on fireworks and even signed an air pollution tax on the purchase or rental of diesel equipment.
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