So whatever you might say about Mr. Kenny, the country is staggering under an even heavier burden today than when he took over.
"Adding a surtax onto individual rates that are already expected to rise will result in federal tax rates approaching nearly 50% for these businesses (with state taxes adding even more burden), " he wrote to lawmakers.
Interest rates are at record lows, so interest costs pose little burden even for heavily indebted companies.
Germans are understandably nervous about shouldering too much more of the burden even if their fears are short-sighted.
Washington is not passing a pro-growth tax cut even though the burden on people is rising and revenues are flush.
But even then the burden would be little more than 50% in an economy growing at over 10% in nominal terms.
And the bureaucrats at the IRS want to impose this burden even though the regulation is completely contrary to existing U.S. law.
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In any event, we have here a telling example of how well, potentially, the free market can operate even under the burden of massive new government regulation.
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Not too long ago, with an even higher tax burden in place, Google started out with a handfull of people in the 1990s, and now has over 28, 000.
Even though the burden of proof is on Anadarko, BP wants to avoid a long period of not getting paid in the hope it'll eventually be exonerated through arbitration or the courts.
Leaving America to carry even more of the burden of global security would be mistaken and unfair.
For 2007, with funds' old capital losses now completely exhausted, investors will find taxes even more of a burden.
Predatory lending would then become even more of a burden on its victims.
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Meanwhile, those who do pay taxes, in a country where tax evasion is a big problem, have to shoulder even more of the burden.
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But even so, the burden of proof is often on the spouse with less financial resources (typically the woman) to prove any such unscrupulous behavior.
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Such individuals presumably would be covered by the 90 percent match, but in border states in particular, the added burden of even a 10 percent match might be considerable.
His point totals have cooled off over the last few weeks. as injured Knicks stars such as Carmelo Anthony have returned to the lineup to even out the scoring burden.
For some borrowers, the burden is even greater.
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They are expressing grievances not only against the banks but more importantly against the blatant income inequality in the U.S., with the 1% ultra-rich paying less of their fair share in taxes while the downtrodden low-income masses bear more of the burden, even as massive unemployment has made their lives more unbearable.
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Yield is so scarce right now that even with a higher tax burden, these stocks are still better than most of the alternatives.
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Indeed, lost in all this talk if the economic burden that is our federal government is even slightly restrained is what it means for all of us who shoulder the aforementioned burden.
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"The industry is happy about this guidance even if it imposes a regulatory burden because it is an indicator of respectability, " says Behnam Dayanim, a lawyer at Paul Hastings LLP in Washington.
The Co-op apparently took the view that it could not adequately cover the costs of the increased regulatory burden on banks, even when enlarged by the Lloyds deal, in the UK's worsened economic climate.
That can be a challenge, forcing couples to slice into massive credit card debt by using retirement savings or even home equity to reduce the burden to a more manageable level if not zero it out all together.
ObamaCare makes the financial burden of Medicaid on states even heavier.
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Sticking with the ever-amusing Golden State, voters unfortunately eliminated the requirement for a two-thirds vote in the legislature to approve a budget, thus making it even easier for politicians to increase the burden of government spending.
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Even so, spam remains a serious burden.
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And even though this would potentially lighten the burden on crowded cellular networks by diverting calls from company towers, the carriers are hesitant to embrace it because they don't want consumers to find out that making VoIP calls via WiFi is cheaper.
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I'll just say this on tax, as well, because, you know, of course, no one ever likes paying tax, even after these changes, the tax burden, under this government, will be lower than in many of the Thatcher years, lower than the European average, lower than any of our major comparable European competitors.
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