We will provide it through many of the initiatives explained elsewhere in this platform: lower tax rates, ending the death tax, cutting through red tape, legal and product liability reform, and the aggressive expansion of overseas markets for their goods and services. Replace the five current tax brackets with four lower ones, ensuring all taxpayers significant tax relief while targeting it especially toward low-income workers. That is why the mortgage interest deduction for primary...

Even as CEO pay has increased, their perquisites, from personal trips on the corporate jet or yacht, to cars and drivers, to country-club fees and home alarm systems, have persisted. New proxy rules required companies to disclose perks that cost more than $10,000, a much lower threshold than the previous requirement of $50,000, or 10 percent of total annual compensation. Executives at Brunswick corp. can use the company-manufactured boats for marketing, hosting civic events, personal use...

Our dedicated farmers and ranchers improve this country's well being and promise to feed American soldiers whereever they are to ensure our nation's freedom and security. This alone adds 25 cents per bushel and saves the government $500-$700 million per year (as estimated by USDA) in reduced deficiency payments to corn growers. There were many grass roots campaigns to defeat CAFTA, which resulted in the closest vote ever in the House of Representatives, a narrow 217-215. They are armed...

Side Pockets sells cigars, cigarettes, chewing tobacco and lighters. His act of civil disobedience is not about smoking, but the government trying to tell small business owners how to run their shots. One day after a smoking citation was thrown out of court, a second Paducah business is getting hit by the ban. In case you miss the one on the door, there's another sign when you walk inside that says Side Pockets is a smoking facility. Todd says the decision to smoke is a personal one and...

The fight against the negative impact of cigarettes faces big challenges including aggressive marketing by cigarettes makers. The new directive also bans the sale of cigarettes in workplaces, schools, hospitals and on public transport, and calls for stronger efforts to crackdown on cigarette smuggling. TOKYO The Japanese government took an important step toward revising its pacifist Constitution recently when the country s parliament endorsed a national referendum on the issue. As he...