It's upsetting and we've had to pay out at the end of it again.

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Last month, Congress approved a rescue plan for the two mortgage giants, but since then, their stock prices have fallen and they've had to pay higher interest rates on the money they need to operate.

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"I've been to other airports and I've never had to pay, " said Mark.

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"We've had more people to pay with a credit card this year than I've ever seen, " said Joubert, who has been in the tax preparation business for 12 years.

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He said it would be "the first time in about 10 or 12 years that we've had no increase in real pay", prompting him to conclude that "people are really going to notice a difference in the economic environment".

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They've had two years of pay freeze and are facing job losses and to hear this is really hard to swallow.

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In this case they've really had six months to figure out how to avert this 10 and a half percent cut to doctor pay that will otherwise take effect next Tuesday, July 1st.

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Because other ideas about how to either pay for deficit reduction bills or other jobs provisions that we've seen have had those problems within them, and we think there's a better and fairer way to do it.

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But it also aims to get readers to pay for at least some of its content, and its editors say they've already had an encouraging response.

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