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  2. Mandatory spending - Wikipedia

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    An increasing percentage of the federal budget became devoted to mandatory spending. [3] In 1947, Social Security accounted for just under five percent of the federal budget and less than one-half of one percent of GDP. [8] By 1962, 13 percent of the federal budget and half of all mandatory spending was committed to Social Security. [3]

  3. John F. Kennedy - Wikipedia

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    Despite low inflation and interest rates, the GDP had grown by an average of only 2.2% per annum during the Eisenhower administration (scarcely more than population growth at the time), and it had declined by 1% during Eisenhower's last twelve months in office. [319] The economy turned around and prospered during Kennedy's presidency.

  4. Article 370 of the Constitution of India - Wikipedia

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    Full text of document on govt.’s rationale behind removal of special status to J&K, The Hindu, 5 August 2019. Mohammad Akbar Lone vs. Union of India, draft of writ petition filed in the Supreme Court, 10 August 2019 ‘Sardar Patel was actually the architect of Article 370’: Historian Srinath Raghavan on Kashmir, Scroll.in, 10 October 2019.

  5. Taxation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The underpayment, whether by a company or a private individual, is 8%. The interest imposed on GATT (part of an overpayment by a company more than EUR 10,000) is 5.5%. For large companies with underpayments, the interest charged is 10%. Finally, the interest charged on deposit 6603 of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) (federal short-term rate) is 5%.

  6. Troubled Asset Relief Program - Wikipedia

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    In total, U.S. government economic bailouts related to the 2007–2008 financial crisis had federal outflows (expenditures, loans, and investments) of $633.6 billion and inflows (funds returned to the Treasury as interest, dividends, fees, or stock warrant repurchases) of $754.8 billion, for a net profit of $121 billion. [93]

  7. Copyright status of works by the federal government of the ...

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    The first Federal statute concerning copyright in government publications was the Printing Law enacted in 1895. [6] Section 52 of that Act provided that copies of "Government Publications" could not be copyrighted. Prior to 1895, no court decision had occasion to consider any claim of copyright on behalf of the Government itself.

  8. Financial transaction tax - Wikipedia

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    The current transaction tax is levied per transaction at a rate of not less than 0.01% and not more than 0.06%, based on the value of the futures contract. Revenue from the securities transaction tax and the futures transaction tax was about €2.4 billion in 2009. The major part of this revenue came from the taxation of bonds and stocks (96.5%).

  9. United States Congress - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 December 2024. Bicameral legislature of the United States For the current Congress, see 118th United States Congress. For the building, see United States Capitol. This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject, potentially preventing the article from being ...