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Amazon poised to get a cut of California sales taxes
PATTERSON, Calif. —Amazon.com Inc.for years has fought government efforts to tax e-commerce. Now it's poised to pocket millions of dollars in sales taxes paid by California customers. As part of a pact reached last year with state lawmakers, some...
Tags: Politics, Companies and Corporations, Amazon.com Inc., Computing and Information Technology Industry, Local Government
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Next round of Iran nuclear talks set for Moscow
Associated PressTough negotiations between Iran and world powers over Tehran's nuclear program ended Thursday with a plan to meet next month for another round of talks but agreement on little else. The open channels between Iran and the six-nation bloc - the five...Tags: Iran's Nuclear Program, Manufacturing and Engineering, Politics, Nuclear Policy, Germany
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Letters: More austerity isn't the answer
Re "True austerity," Opinion, May 18 Fiscal conservatives will always claim that the real problem is that the austerity measures undertaken in Europe didn't go far enough. Similarly, there's the claim that the reasonGeorge W. Bush, through his tax...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, World War II (1939-1945), Class Conflict
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French, German rifts show already
PARIS — Exuberant supporters were still out celebrating Francois Hollande's election as president of France when the first fissures began opening up in the Franco-German motor that drives the rest of Europe.
Although officials on both sides of...Tags: Berlin (Germany), Banking, Investment Service, France, Investments
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Myanmar opposition ends boycott; U.N. calls for eased sanctions
World NowMyanmar's main opposition party, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, agreed Monday to end its weeklong boycott of parliament and swear an oath to a constitution it has resisted.... -
Bill Clinton, at Milken conference, warns Europe on austerity
Bill Clinton has some advice for Europe's leaders: Focus on stimulus, not cost cutting. The former president told a capacity crowd inside the Beverly Hilton's grand ballroom that the continent cannot rely on austerity measures to bail itself out of the...
Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Bill Clinton, Sumner Redstone, Viacom Inc., Finance
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Tax reform's hard choices
Republicans and Democrats agree that the federal tax system is broken, but they couldn't disagree more strongly about how to fix it. That's true largely because each side clings to a different set of theories about how taxes affect the country, only...
Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Companies and Corporations, Parties and Movements, Personal Income
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A generational divide widens in Cuba
SANTIAGO, Cuba — The way Cesar Cruz and his buddies see it, the "revolution of our grandparents" just doesn't cut it anymore.
The 19-year-old student and his friends gather every Saturday in leafy Cespedes Park in the shadow of Santiago de Cuba's...Tags: Raul Castro, Satellite Technology, Egypt, Science and Technology, Agricultural Research and Technology
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European Union lifts sanctions on Myanmar
World NowThe European Union is lifting its economic sanctions on Myanmar, also known as Burma, in recognition of the Southeast Asian nation's steps toward political reform, officials announced.... -
World finance leaders press Europe to do more on debt crisis
WASHINGTON -- One by one, the world’s top finance officials Saturday pressed Europe to do more to shore up its debt problems, warning that the global recovery remains fragile and that the Eurozone shouldn’t relax now that it has secured...
Tags: Politics, Germany, Timothy Geithner, Market and Exchange, Environmental Issues
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Rep. Ron Paul: Winning young hearts but not votes?
This post has been updated, as indicated below. Rep. Ron Paul(R-Texas) stopped by The Times on Wednesday to chat with the editorial board between rallies on university campuses – his campaign’s signature event. Tuesday night Paul was at the...
Tags: Republican Party, Politics, University of California, Berkeley, Primaries, Parties and Movements
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Debt would grow under most GOP candidates' plans, report says
President Obama is roundly criticized by Republicans for running up the nation's debt load, but tax and spending proposals from the GOP presidential contenders show debt would continue to rise under their watch -- sometimes to even more alarming levels....Tags: Republican Party, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Parties and Movements, Budgets and Budgeting, Rick Santorum
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