Other elements central to the negotiation that would impact middle income earners, mainly the extension of Bush era tax cuts for incomes below the border, patching the alternative minimum tax, and the potential loss in the payroll tax cut, suggest that the economic situation of the middle class as a result of the fiscal reorganization will remain the status quo at best.

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India's exports to Pakistan are surging, by over 30% a year, but from a minuscule base (garlic crosses the border in the picture, below).

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However Rhodri Thomas urges caution as he looked out of the vast expanse of bracken on the slopes below Stanidge Edge straddling the border of Yorkshire and Derbyshire.

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Rogers wants in on the action up north of the border, too, and they'll be keeping pace with their GSM brethren below the St.

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