In a free society, private payments should be covered by merchant-customer privilege just as attorney-client privilege covers confidential legal communication.
But with the addition of a clever piece of code called Zerocoin, it could still fulfill that dream of truly private payments.
The ProPublica report does not distinguish between rare private payments for genuinely pernicious activities--like payola, which is already a serious crime--and those that finance crucial activities, like education and laboratory work.
Wisconsin, by contrast, taxes private retirement payments, as it does salary and other income, at 5.6%.
Private-payments companies threaten to take away the government's ability to control the money supply and benefit from seigniorage, the difference between the cost to produce the money and its face value.
Some of those emails, which began circulating over the weekend, depict a New York Fed eager to keep the details of the payments private.
Two people may have the same income but one may need to save more for retirement or have to make large private school tuition payments for their kids.
Mr Obama noted that the involvement of several jurisdictions, as well as private companies whose payments were tied to performance, meant "construction workers are on the job digging this tunnel, doing great jobs, getting good pay".
Health reform points to a world of centralized rationing through Medicare and a return to capitated payments by private payers.
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Lawyers for Katherine Jackson wanted details of the payments kept private but Judge Mitchell Beckloff said in court he did not think the total amount could remain sealed.
It was confirmed Monday when Medicare bowed to political pressure and reversed a cut in payments to private insurers under a generous government program known as Medicare Advantage.
Taxable part of private unemployment fund benefit payments.
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In the private sector, the payments have often formed part of a larger plan to close the schemes to new members or reduce the benefits that may be accrued in the future by existing members.
It appears that ACS Education Solutions, the private company that collects payments for the Department of Education's Direct Loan program, based Zumas' repayments on her gross income, rather than her adjusted gross income, as Congress intended.
Prospect Global may also be subject to some royalty payments on the private lands they control.
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Many couples have too much mortgage, too much debt, big car payments, and private school tuition that they really can't afford.
There will be a 20% cut in the minimum wage but annual bonus holiday payments in the private sector may escape.
He is already at the centre of a probe into suspect cash payments made for private trips abroad in the 1990s.
But they were structural reforms covering trade restrictions, the reorganisation of insolvent banks, and progress in negotiating a delay in the foreign debt payments of the private sector.
The Winter Fuel Allowance Payments Bill is a private members' bill that is being sponsored by SNP MP Mike Weir.
Under the two-tier plan, part of a driver's Vehicle Excise Duty payments would go to private companies managing and investing in the road network.
The charges that the company may have illegally gained access to thousands of private voicemail accounts and made improper payments to police officers, after all, are quite serious.
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The tax deductibility of interest payments on debt gives private-equity executives an incentive to pile extra debt onto the companies they buy, thereby risking the health of these firms for the sake of a tax benefit and the prospect of higher returns.
Mr Grayling has said he is a supporter of what's called the "rehabilitation revolution" - looking at ways to prevent reoffending with "more effective" sentencing policies, particularly the use of restorative justice and robust community sentences delivered by the private and voluntary sectors on a payments by results basis.
The scheme involves private companies building a hospital and receiving payments from the NHS over a number of years.
Advocates of a public option say government financing would save the most money by having leaner administrative costs and forcing doctors and hospitals to take lower payments than they get from private insurance.
Meanwhile, government payments to Medicare Advantage, the private-plan part of Medicare, will be frozen starting in 2011, and cut in the following years.
That's worrying some private landlords, who also believe the monthly payments planned under universal credit will make it harder for tenants than the current fortnightly benefits.
Even in primitive northwestern Europe, where Rome stationed its army at frontier posts like Cologne, Mainz and Vienna, cash salaries and pension payments, plus the use of private businesses to supply food, arms and other necessities, ensured a city-centered, money-based market economy.
"Personal income in November and December was boosted by accelerated and special dividend payments to persons and by accelerated bonus payments and other irregular pay in private wages and salaries in anticipation of changes in individual income tax rates, " the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis said.
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