Tax Hike Replaces Bond on Ballot
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By Leigh Dethman and Nicole Warburton Deseret Morning News  Salt Lake County voters will be asked this November to approve a sales-tax hike for road and transit construction instead of paying higher property taxes for light-rail expansion.
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By Ed Mendel, The San Diego Union-Tribune  Feb. 20--SACRAMENTO -- A surge of new highway money from a $19.9 billion  transportation bond has renewed political infighting over whether Caltrans  should use government or private engineers, bringing warnings of possible  project delays.
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Treasury debt prices rose on Friday as  uncertainty ahead of the U.S. presidential election, compounded  by the appearance of a new video tape from Osama bin Laden,  prompted some last-minute interest in safe-haven bonds.
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Bond prices edged higher Tuesday, following release of a report showing a dip in retail sales last month. The price of the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose 5/32 point, or $1.
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By David Reich-Hale  The Nassau Legislature on Tuesday is expected to unanimously approve a $100 million bond issue designed to preserve open space and protect the environment.   The Environment Protection Bond passed through the rules committee last week.
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A $1.3 billion small-business tax  cut package aimed at winning the first minimum wage increase in  more than a decade advanced in the U.S. House of  Representatives on Monday.
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The four measures on the Feb. 5 ballot are being hotly debated. Officials say the state needs the revenue.
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Fueled in part by election-year politics, a bill loaded with tax breaks and topped off by a $10.1 billion buyout for tobacco farmers was advancing toward a final vote in the House as early as today.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Responding to skyrocketing coastal property values and taxes, Florida lawmakers on Monday passed a proposed constitutional amendment that backers say would cut local property taxes by $12.5 billion over the next five years
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WASHINGTON -- Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in yesterday's auction to the highest levels in 30 months.
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Cook County Board President John Stroger&#39;s tardy 2005 budget won&#39;t include a property tax hike, but that&#39;s the only proposed tax hike now being excluded from consideration, his office said Tuesday.
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A contentious measure to gradually move up the time property owners pay their county property taxes will get a second chance this week in the Michigan House.
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The House overwhelmingly approved business tax breaks worth $1.8 billion over 10 years on Friday, a key step toward forging a congressional compromise on increasing the minimum wage. The vote on the tax cuts was 360-45.
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Early returns indicated strong support among Louisiana voters for a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages and civil unions, one of up to 12 such measures on the ballot around the country this year.
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By KAREN LEE ZINER  Journal Staff Writer  Question 2 on the November ballot would amend the state Constitution and allow felons to vote after they are released from prison.
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By Christopher Curry, Ocala Star-Banner, Fla.  Jun. 12--OCALA--It was like a scene from the twilight zone. Some 200  people packed the County Commission chambers Monday, and many asked to have  their taxes raised.
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New laws could increase your family's tax bill.