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发帖数: 4174 | 1 Obama to Push New Spending
By DAMIAN PALETTA, JONATHAN WEISMAN and LAURA MECKLER
Associated Press
President Barack Obama and GE's Jeffrey Immelt, left, with plant manager
Kevin Sharkey, visited a GE factory Friday to talk about green jobs.
President Barack Obama will call for new government spending on
infrastructure, education and research in his State of the Union address
Tuesday, sharpening his response to Republicans in Congress who are
demanding deep budget cuts, people familiar with the sp... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on DickMorris.com on January 7, 2011
Every Republican member of Congress should sign the following pledge, being
promulgated by Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform:
"I promise not to vote for any expansion of the federal debt limit unless it
is preceded or accompanied by significant cuts in federal spending."
We all know that the reason the federal government debt is exploding is the
reckless spending policies of the Obama Administratio... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19398 | 3 The nation’s per-pupil spending on K-12 public schools dropped in 2013 for
the third year in a row, reversing more than a decade of funding increases,
according to federal data released Wednesday.
Spending continued to vary widely across the country, from a low of $6,432
per student in Utah to a high of $20,530 per student in the District of
Columbia. The biggest spenders were largely clustered in the Northeast,
while the lowest were in the West and Southeast.
The national average was $10,763, d... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 4 48% See Need to Change Defense, Social Security, Medicare To Make Serious,
Long-Term Spending Cuts
Monday, April 11, 2011
Just under half of voters understand that making major cuts in government
spending over the long haul will require substantial changes in three of the
most politically sensitive areas of the federal budget.
Forty-eight percent (48%) of Likely U.S. Voters recognize that it is
necessary to make major changes in defense, Social Security, and Medicare to
make truly significant, l... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16625 | 5 http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/330821/total-welfare-spend
Total Welfare Spending Now at $1 Trillion
By NRO Staff
October 18, 2012 4:00 A.M.
Comments
66
Total annual spending on federal means-tested welfare programs has hit $1
trillion. The Congressional Research Service is out with a new memorandum on
spending on these programs. Senator Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican
on the Senate budget committee who requested the memo, has crunched the
numbers and come up with the astonishing figu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 6 The Unscary Sequester
Washington is in a fit of collective terror over the "sequester," aka the
impending across-the-board spending cuts. Trying to explain the zero
economic growth at the end of 2012, White House spokesman Jay Carney blamed
Republicans for "talk about letting the sequester kick in as though that
were an acceptable thing." He left out that President Obama proposed the
sequester in 2011.
Then on Tuesday Mr. Obama warned about "the threat of massive automatic cuts
that have already... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 7 Democrat-run states hike spending 400% faster than GOP states
By Paul Bedard | May 21, 2014 | 12:00 am
States led by a Democratic governor and legislature increased spending over
400 percent faster than those under Republican control, according to a new
report from a leading taxpayer watchdog group.
Americans for Tax Reform, most known for pushing candidates to sign an anti-
tax pledge, found that the 13 states run by Democrats raised spending 5.55
percent over 2011-2013. In the 24 states where ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4718 | 8 http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/japan-inc-soun
TOKYO —
Do not believe in official statistics, Japanese retailers seem to be saying,
as they cut earnings forecasts and warn of lackluster consumer spending, a
key growth engine for Japan at a time when exports and factory output are
stalling.
If you go by the larger-than-expected 2.9% gain in household spending in
August - the first year-on-year rise in three months - then consumption
looks like it is finally alive and well again, ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 157 | 9 What if the gov can re-align so that the proposal of spending and revenue
collection (mostly tax rate) are NOT determined in one single budget? Both R
(共和党, or people alike who prefer small gov) and D, each have two
proposals: spending-R and revenue-R, spending-D and revenue-D (which not
need to be balanced)? Then, vote to pick up the spending-2013 (spending-R or
spending-D) and revenue-2013(revenue-R or revenue-D), the vote first take
place in congress and senate and require 2/3 majority to pas... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 By Terence P. Jeffrey
December 30, 2012
(CNSNews.com) - Appearing on NBCs “Meet the Press” on Sunday, President
Barack Obama said that he cut spending by more than $1 trillion in 2011.
However, the White House Office of Management and Budget says that federal
spending increased by $147 billion from fiscal 2010 to fiscal 2011.
Host David Gregory asked Obama: “Well, you talk about dysfunction in
Washington. You signed this legislation setting up the fiscal cliff 17
months ago. How accountable are ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 11 WASHINGTON — Their poll numbers sinking, their constituents badly bruised
by economic hardship and with millions of American workers about to get a
sudden and unexpected tax increase, what are members of Congress discussing?
Shutting down the government. Again.
For the third time in a year, the divided 112th Congress is dancing on the
edge of catastrophe, locked in a bitter partisan battle over fiscal measures
, with unrelated policy debates clinging to the side.
Republicans and Democrats do not... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 12 Posted on April 3, 2012 at 4:04pm by Meredith
President Barack Obama’s near-term spending proposal is a budgetary bonanza
. Take for instance his proposal to increase spending for the Department of
Education by $1.78 billion over last year’s spending level, bringing the
total agency funding to a staggering $69.8 billion.
Fun fact: If enacted, this spending level would mean that in one term,
President Obama has spent almost as much on education as President George W.
Bush spent in two terms —... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 13 By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | February 5th, 2013 at 04:24 PM |
We’ve all been waiting to see the updated CBO Budget and Economic Outlook
for 2013 and the next ten years. Most of the news articles are focusing
their headlines on the deficit and debt numbers projected in the CBO report.
But remember that the reason why CBO deficit projections always understate
the reality is because they overstate the amount of revenue they expect to
come into the Treasury.
CBO projects the gross federal d... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 81 | 14 主要还是cut在北美页岩气方面
dropping plans for some new wells in places such as Colorado's Niobrara
Shale.
ConocoPhillips Cuts 2015 Drilling Budget by 20%
Published: Dec 08, 2014
By Tess Stynes
ConocoPhillips expects its capital spending to decline 20% from a year ago
to $13.5 billion next year, as oil companies continue to scale back drilling
plans because of falling prices for crude.
The Houston-based oil giant said it plans to spend less on major projects
that are nearly complete as well as defer spendin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19398 | 15 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Soaring tax revenues have carried per-pupil education
spending in California beyond where it stood before the recession, but even
the record sum proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown is unlikely to reverse the state
's standing as a comparative miser when it comes to investing in public
schools, advocates and education officials said.
Brown, a Democrat known for preaching fiscal restraint, released a budget
plan last week that would boost state spending per student to $10,591 in the
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发帖数: 2053 | 16 http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0214/Obama-s-have-it
Obama's $3.7 trillion budget proposal would produce a $1.1 trillion deficit
for fiscal 2012 – less than this year’s projected deficit of $1.65
trillion. Republicans, predictably, call for more spending cuts.
By Linda Feldmann, Staff writer / February 14, 2011
Washington
In his proposed 2012 budget, released Monday, President Obama is trying to
have it all:
• Increased spending in areas the president believes will spur
economic... 阅读全帖 |
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w*******y
发帖数: 60932 | 17 Here is a list of current Amex offer codes for Gold and Gold Business. You
can apply with any link you want. When you call to activate the card ask
them to apply whichever promo you want to use to your card. (this may take
one or more attempts) You can also do this with their secure message center
but you must have an established online account and register your new card
on it.
The rep will notate your account with the offer and when you meet the
spending requirements you can message them or cal... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4825 | 18 http://www.economist.com/news/china/21599046-chinas-fast-growin
ON THE first day of the annual session of the National People’s Congress
last week, China announced a defence budget for 2014 of $132 billion, a
generous increase of 12.2% on the year before. That was the official figure,
though the real one may be 40% higher still. It set off a flurry of alarm
among neighbouring countries. They see the relentless growth in China’s
military spending—double-digit increases almost every year for the p... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 19 By Jon N. Hall
Federal spending has two sides: mandatory spending and discretionary
spending. The biggest programs on the mandatory side are Social Security
and Medicare. These two programs are called "mandatory" because they are
not subject to the budget process; spending is said to be "on autopilot."
Until recently, the two programs were entirely funded with the payroll tax.
But with the advent of the Great Recession and the retirement of the Baby
Boom generation, the programs are also gett... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 20 In an interview with Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal, newly re-
elected House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) opened up about President Obama’s
utter unwillingness to cut a single dollar from federal spending. In a
stunning admission, Obama reportedly told Boehner, “We don’t have a
spending problem.”
Boehner added that President Obama continues to maintain that America’s
federal deficit is caused not by governmental overspending but by “a health
-care problem.” Said Boehner, “They blame all... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6411 | 21 Obama presses GOP to avoid automatic spending cuts, warns that 'people will
lose their jobs'
By Julie Pace and Jim Kuhnhenn, AP White House Correspondent | Associated
Press – 33 minutes ago
Email
President Barack Obama, accompanied by emergency responders, a group of
workers the White House says could be affected if state and local
governments lose federal money as a result of budget cuts, gestures as he
speaks in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office
building on the Whit... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4342 | 22 After months of rigorous debate over trimming the federal budget, Congress
has finally passed a short-term budget and increased the debt limit in
return for what is said to be "historic" budget cuts.
But after all that--the fighting, the 11th-hour back-room deals, the
warnings of calamity--will the federal budget actually be smaller in a few
years?
Nope. Spending will continue to increase.
Much of the problem has to do with the language of Washington, which, you
might have noticed, is different ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7918 | 23 人民群眾的眼睛偶爾也是雪亮的。
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/us/politics/05poll.html?hp
August 4, 2011
Disapproval Rate for Congress at Record 82% After Debt Talks
By MICHAEL COOPER and MEGAN THEE-BRENAN
The debate over raising the debt ceiling, which brought the nation to the
brink of default, has sent disapproval of Congress to its highest level on
record and left most Americans saying that creating jobs should now take
priority over cutting spending, according to the latest New York Times/CBS
News Poll.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2256 | 24 http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/12/30/sports-fbc-cost-of-bowling_8230139.html
1. Ohio State
2. Alabama
3. Notre Dame
4. Auburn
5. LSU
The numbers grow every year: 35 bowl games, 70 teams - the morphing of what
was once a New Year's
Day tradition into one that kicks off in mid-December and finishes closer to
Martin Luther King Day than
Jan. 1.
And if those bowl-season stats seem bloated, try this: Ohio State and
Alabama each spend more than $31
million a year to run their football programs, w... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 25 Spending Per Pupil in Public Schools Climbed as Economy Crashed, Says Dept.
of Ed Study
By Terence P. Jeffrey
December 2, 2011
(CNSNews.com) - Inflation-adjusted median per pupil spending in U.S. public
schools increased from fiscal year 2008 to fiscal year 2009 even as the U.S.
economy was crashing, according to a recently released study by the U.S.
Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics.
When measured in constant 2009 dollars—and even without including
expenditures ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19398 | 26 As part of his pledge to "make America great again," Donald Trump wants to
spend less on schools and get better test scores.
Speaking at a rally in Tulsa, Okla., on Wednesday, Trump, a business
executive and a frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination,
lambasted the performance of American public schools students compared to
their peers around the world. He said he was especially appalled because of
all the money that goes to education in the U.S.
"We're number one in terms of cost ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 901 | 27 Total political spending on elections this cycle is estimated to reach
nearly $6 billion, according to an analysis by the Center for Responsive
Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks the influence of money in politics.
The researchers who compiled the report gathered data through public
disclosure documents submitted to the Federal Election Commission and tax
documents filed by nonprofit groups that are not required by law to disclose
their donors. The estimated amount—$5.8 billion—is $400 mi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1846 | 28 Total political spending on elections this cycle is estimated to reach
nearly $6 billion, according to an analysis by the Center for Responsive
Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks the influence of money in politics.
The researchers who compiled the report gathered data through public
disclosure documents submitted to the Federal Election Commission and tax
documents filed by nonprofit groups that are not required by law to disclose
their donors. The estimated amount—$5.8 billion—is $400 mi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 29 NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Congress couldn't agree how to pay for a year-long
extension of the payroll tax cut, federal unemployment benefits and an
adjustment in Medicare physician pay.
In fact, it could barely agree on whether to extend them for two months.
And all three are relatively minor measures in the context of all the budget
issues Congress has to address.
So imagine how much fun this Congress will have this time next year when two
legitimately big issues will be at hand: The nearly $4 tri... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 731 | 30 NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Huge spending cuts, and maybe some targeted tax hikes.
That's how the deal to raise the debt ceiling is shaping up. Details are
thin, as negotiations have been carried out behind closed doors and involve
only a few of Washington's heaviest hitters.
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This much is known: Lawmakers must raise the nation's $14.3 trillion legal
borrowing limit soon. The Treasury Department says that on Aug. 2 it will
run out of money to pay the nation's bills ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 731 | 31 对房市场如何的影响？
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Huge spending cuts, and maybe some targeted tax hikes.
That's how the deal to raise the debt ceiling is shaping up. Details are
thin, as negotiations have been carried out behind closed doors and involve
only a few of Washington's heaviest hitters.
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This much is known: Lawmakers must raise the nation's $14.3 trillion legal
borrowing limit soon. The Treasury Department says that on Aug. 2 it will
run out of money to pay the nati... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1214 | 32 又到Open Enrollment的季节，有问题请教版上有经验的高人：
孩子的daycare一年1万五以上（哭！），放5000在dependent care spending account
上，
1）剩下的一万多还可以claim child care tax credit吗？
2）如果不能，怎样交税最少？放5000到spending account上，还是不用spending
account，等tax return的时候再claim？
3）除了child care tax credit，还有别的项可能受spending account的影响吗？
总之，就是要不要在child care spending account上放5000？
我们的基本情况：税表填1040，一个博后，一个全奖学生，除了工资没有其它收入。
多谢！ |
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发帖数: 782 | 33 【 以下文字转载自 SanFrancisco 讨论区 】
发信人: hague (litte ppl), 信区: SanFrancisco
标 题: 请教关于 health care flexible spending account 的问题 (转载)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Apr 7 13:56:49 2012, 美东)
发信人: hague (litte ppl), 信区: Working
标 题: 请教关于 health care flexible spending account 的问题
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Apr 7 13:55:49 2012, 美东)
请问 health care flexible spending account 有上限吗？比如说夫妻两人的公司各
自的上限都是5000刀。那这个家庭的上限就是 10，000刀？
我知道 dependent care flexible spending account 即使夫妻各自可以放5000刀，但
整个家庭的上限还是5000刀。不知道 health care flexible... 阅读全帖 |
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l***n
发帖数: 731 | 34 NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Huge spending cuts, and maybe some targeted tax hikes.
That's how the deal to raise the debt ceiling is shaping up. Details are
thin, as negotiations have been carried out behind closed doors and involve
only a few of Washington's heaviest hitters.
* 240
*
* 5
* Print
This much is known: Lawmakers must raise the nation's $14.3 trillion legal
borrowing limit soon. The Treasury Department says that on Aug. 2 it will
run out of money to pay the nation's bills ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 15215 | 35 Canadian holiday spending higher, but could slow
TORONTO (Reuters) - Early data suggests Canadian consumers are spending more
this Christmas than last year, but experts say the surprisingly large gains
may not hold through to the end of the crucial holiday shopping season.
From November 25 to December 19, consumer spending, including travel and
entertainment as well as retail, rose 4.6 percent over last year, according
to data released on Thursday by card payment processor Moneris Solutions.
The... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 126 | 36 I have heard people talking on radio about consumer spending has this
multiplicative effect and that if more and more people start to spend,
economy will turn around faster. But since people are not spending, someone
has, and this someone turns out to be the government who is borrowing
heavily and spending like crazy. It makes sense to me that if the government
has spent in one shot but failed to get you and I to spend, the economy
does not get this multiplicative effect/boost and it is less lik |
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B**W
发帖数: 2273 | 38 Washington (CNN) -- The Senate on Saturday approved a compromise spending
bill to keep the government funded for the rest of the fiscal year -- a day
after the bill won approval from the House of Representatives.
The bill now heads to President Barack Obama for his signature. Obama signed
a continuing resolution passed by the House to keep the government funded
through next week while the bill's details are finalized.
The almost $1 trillion measure passed on a 296-121 vote in the House on
Friday... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 Daniel Halper
October 2, 2012 10:54 AM
A new study by Douglas Holtz-Eakin of the American Action Forum finds that
President Barack Obama's spending plan would raise taxes on the middle class
. "[T]axpayers making as little as $30,000 will carry $1,500 more in taxes
annually over the next 10 years," the study finds.
The significance of this study is that it contradict Obama's pledge not to
raise taxes on the middle class. “If you are a family making less than $250
,000 a year, you will not see y... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 40 减了2个亿。比trump的budget多了36.5亿。
House appropriators on Tuesday introduced a spending bill for federal energy
and water departments that spends $3.65 billion more in 2018 than President
Trump requested for the agencies.
The bill, which funds the Department of Energy (DOE), nuclear weapons
oversight, the Army Corps of Engineers and other departments, would spend $
37.56 billion total in 2018, a $209 million cut from current funding levels.
But the measure is a rejection of Trump’s budget proposal, whi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19398 | 41 摘要——From 1980 to 2013, state and local spending on public schools
doubled, from $258 billion to $534 billion, according to the analysis. Over
the same period, the number of people incarcerated in state and local
prisons more than quadrupled, and spending also increased by more than four
times, from $17 billion to $71 billion.
其他的看这里
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/07/07/since-1980-
spending-on-prisons-has-grown-three-times-faster-than-spending-on-public-
education/ |
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发帖数: 8227 | 42 The deficit-reduction deal outlined Sunday night bears the unmistakable
stamp of tea-party conservatives.
The deal, likely to be voted on in Congress on Monday, has plenty of
elements for both liberals and conservatives to dislike. But because of
Republicans' political leverage, it was played out from the beginning
largely on their turf.
And after months of contentious brinksmanship, conservatives appear to have
gotten more of what they wanted, and an impatient president less of what he
sought.
... 阅读全帖 |
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h***e
发帖数: 782 | 43 【 以下文字转载自 Working 讨论区 】
发信人: hague (litte ppl), 信区: Working
标 题: 请教关于 health care flexible spending account 的问题
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Apr 7 13:55:49 2012, 美东)
请问 health care flexible spending account 有上限吗？比如说夫妻两人的公司各
自的上限都是5000刀。那这个家庭的上限就是 10，000刀？
我知道 dependent care flexible spending account 即使夫妻各自可以放5000刀，但
整个家庭的上限还是5000刀。不知道 health care flexible spending account 是不
是不一样。谢谢。 |
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a*****g
发帖数: 19398 | 44 摘要——From 1980 to 2013, state and local spending on public schools
doubled, from $258 billion to $534 billion, according to the analysis. Over
the same period, the number of people incarcerated in state and local
prisons more than quadrupled, and spending also increased by more than four
times, from $17 billion to $71 billion.
其他的看这里
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/07/07/since-1980-
spending-on-prisons-has-grown-three-times-faster-than-spending-on-public-
education/ |
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发帖数: 60932 | 45 You'll find all the gear you need to make memories with Mother Nature at REI
where $15 gets you $25 to spend on top-notch outdoor equipment, apparel and
more.
The storyThe outdoors may get all the glory, but behind every mountain
climber hitting an epic peak and every family setting up camp, there's gear.
And no resource has outfitted and inspired adventurers and outdoor
enthusiasts like REI. However you prefer to get out and play, whether it's
hiking, biking, snowboarding or sleeping under the ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 47 Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), who voted for the omnibus spending bill along
with 146 other Republicans, called the measure a "crap sandwich" and said he
wished it cut more.
"I have consistently said throughout my time in Washington that the American
people deserve more from their government," he said. "This bill is a crap
sandwich! You definitely do not want to bite into it, you cannot stand the
taste, but you know you have to eat it."
He said the bill does "inch us forward towards our ultimate goa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 325 | 48 这帮人是疯了
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/15/doma-republicans_n_247
WASHINGTON -- House Republican leaders have signed on to spend up to $3
million to keep defending the Defense of Marriage Act in court, according to
a copy of their newly revised legal contract obtained by The Huffington
Post.
House Republican leaders took over the legal defense of DOMA in the spring
of 2011, when Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Obama
administration would no longer defend it on the grounds that the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3620 | 49 Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), who voted for the omnibus spending bill along
with 146 other Republicans, called the measure a "crap sandwich" and said he
wished it cut more.
"I have consistently said throughout my time in Washington that the American
people deserve more from their government," he said. "This bill is a crap
sandwich! You definitely do not want to bite into it, you cannot stand the
taste, but you know you have to eat it."
He said the bill does "inch us forward towards our ultimate goa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 50 from PennyJobs.com
Britain's Treasury chief George Osborne has announced tax increases and the
toughest cuts to public spending in decades in an emergency budget aimed at
sharply reducing the country's record debt.
After decades of run a way government spending under Gordon Brown, the newly
elected leadership last month didn’t waste much time.
The budget includes a lengthy list of tax increases and spending cuts on
welfare programs and government departments.
Most public sector workers except th |
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