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Ability to pay Defined

People having differing amounts of wealth or earning different sums of income should pay tax as per their ‘ability to pay’ at different rates. It is a concept devised to be fair to everybody. All assets such as cars, stocks, homes, bonds, and savings accounts come under wealth, whereas salaries, wages, rent, interest, and dividends account for income.

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System Crash on Wall Street

Published October 6, 2008, 2:02 pm, O'Reilly Media

The credit markets are seizing up, Congress-critters are trying to make the case for spending billions in a "rescue" package, the stock market gyrations are giving people whiplash, banks are popping like sulfur-filled bubbles and companies are suddenly having to make some hard decision about payroll at a time even when they have more than enough work. The end of the world as we know it seems to ...

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Emerging Market Stocks Fall Most Ever; Brazil, Russia Tumble

Published October 6, 2008, 2:01 pm, Bloomberg

Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Emerging-market stocks fell, sending the benchmark index to the biggest loss in its 21-year history, and exchanges in Brazil and Russia were forced to halt trading as the global banking crisis escalated in Europe and oil dropped below $90 a barrel.

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Is Bill Me Later Part Of the Problem Or Part Of The Solution: Behind The Second Biggest M&A Exit Of The Year

Published October 6, 2008, 1:59 pm, TechCrunch

On the same day the public markets are tanking because of the spreading credit crisis, we see one of the biggest M&A exits of the year with eBay acquiring Bill Me Later for $945 million ($820 million in cash, plus an extra $125 million in options). The only other tech exits of this size in 2008 were Sun buying MYSQL for $1 billion (which involved less cash and more options), AOL buying ...

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Countrywide to set aside $8.4 billion in loan aid

Published October 6, 2008, 1:52 pm, Spartanburg Herald-Journal

Published: Monday, October 6, 2008 at 5:23 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, October 6, 2008 at 10:09 a.m.

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Eli Lilly to buy ImClone for more than $6B

Published October 6, 2008, 1:48 pm, INO News

(AP:INDIANAPOLIS) Eli Lilly & Co.'s winning bid of more than $6 billion for cancer drugmaker ImClone Systems means a billion-dollar payday for former rival bidder Bristol-Myers and vindication for corporate raider and ImClone Chairman Carl Icahn.

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Eli Lilly to buy ImClone for more than $6B

Published October 6, 2008, 1:43 pm, Boston Herald

INDIANAPOLIS - Eli Lilly & Co.'s winning bid of more than $6 billion for cancer drugmaker ImClone Systems means a billion-dollar payday for former rival bidder Bristol-Myers...

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US Fed, Treasury confront crisis

Published October 6, 2008, 1:22 pm, The West Australian

The Federal Reserve and the US Treasury, armed with new emergency powers, have announced measures to tackle a rapidly escalating financial crisis as panicked investors fled stock markets.

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Cuba officials hear reports on street work, unkempt property

Published October 6, 2008, 1:07 pm, The Canton Daily Ledger

CUBA -- The Cuba City Council met in regular session at City Hall, 403 East Jefferson Street, Cuba.

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Emerging Market Stocks Fall Most Ever; Brazil, Russia Tumble

Published October 6, 2008, 12:49 pm, Bloomberg

Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Emerging market stocks fell the most ever and exchanges in Brazil and Russia were forced to halt trading as the global banking crisis escalated in Europe and oil dropped below $90 a barrel.

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Transcript: First Presidential Debate

Published October 6, 2008, 12:41 pm, CBS News

A transcript of the first presidential debate between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama -- Sept. 26, 2008 from Oxford, Miss.

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