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Love: Me
and the Girls - I spend a lot of time at the gym pulling
and yanking and hurting myself. What brings me back is the odor.
Some people enjoy the scent of diesel fuel; others prefer new
tennis balls. I like the smell of stale sweat. - More...
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Ambrose: How
professors may cheat students - College students are telling
on their professors, and what they say is that some cheating
is going on, at least if you think it's cheating to teach just
one side of political issues and use your classroom authority
for purposes of indoctrination. - More...
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National: Taxes
may be raised to help Social Security by Lawrence M. O'Rourke - Republicans
might need to raise payroll taxes to finance President Bush's
proposal to allow Americans to divert a portion of their retirement
savings into private accounts, according to a GOP senator who
supports the White House goal of revising Social Security.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,
a longtime advocate of creating private retirement accounts with
Social Security dollars, said Congress might be forced to raise
the annual tax cap on Social Security earnings from $87,500 to
$150,000.
"You can't reform the
system and put Social Security on solid financial footing without
some sacrifice," Graham said. "I'm very open-minded
about ideas on how we can achieve sustained solvency."
The result could be additional
payroll taxes of up to $3,875 a year for upper-income taxpayers,
according to analysts.
Graham proposed that the higher
payroll taxes could be imposed for 12 to 15 years, or until Social
Security gained solvency under a new retirement system.
Graham, whose plan was greeted
skeptically by some conservatives, acknowledged that the notion
of raising payroll taxes is "non-traditional" for congressional
Republicans.
"We would be very reluctant
to support higher payroll taxes on Social Security," said
David John, a Social Security analyst for the conservative Heritage
Foundation. "It would not be one of our top 10 choices."
But higher taxes might be "part
of a package" that could generate support for Bush's plan
in what is expected to be the major battle on Capitol Hill in
2005, John said.
The Graham proposal would seem
to run counter to the pledge by the president and Republican
leaders to use their stronger majorities in both houses of Congress
to push through additional tax cuts and to make reductions enacted
in 2001 and 2003 permanent. - More...
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