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Tuesday, August 9, 2016
offers revamped economic plan
Trump
cal basis for an economic plan
than a series of specifics.
He did spell out proposed tax
brackets and called for greater
child care deductions for fami-
Tramp focused in part on
taxes on U.S. businesses, declar-
ing that no company should pay
more than 15 percent of its in-
come in taxes. That would be a
major drop from the current 35
percent corporate tax rate,
though many companies pay
much less because of various de-
ductions. He also called for a
moratorium on federal regula-
tions, which he framed as stran-
gling businesses.
As in the House GOP plan
backed by Ryan, Trump’s pro-
posal on individual income taxes
would simplify the code, which
currently has seven brackets,
down to three, and lower the top
rate to 33 percent after deduc-
tions from the current 39.6 per-
cent.
versation back to Democrat
Clinton’s perceived shortcom-
ings. On Monday, he obliged, ac-
cusing her of jilting American
workers and coming up short on
promises to constituents.
“The one common feature of
every Hillary Clinton idea is that
it punishes you for working and
doing business in the United
States,” Trump said. He said he
wants to “jumpstart America”
and added, “It won’t even be that
hard.”
By Jill Colvin
and Josh Lederman
Associated Press
DETROIT — Promising to
“jumpstart America” to a new
era of prosperity, Donald Trump
announced a revamped eco-
nomic plan Monday aimed at
revitalizing a stagnant U.S.
economy by cutting taxes for
workers and businesses. He as-
sailed Hillary Clinton as a candi-
date who would merely extend a
Democratic period of old ideas
and weakness.
Trying to move past recent
stumbles, Trump proposed a
simplified three-bracket income
tax system that hewed closely to
what House Republicans have
recommended, the latest indica-
tion the GOP presidential nomi-
nee is working to put infighting
with his party’s leaders behind
him. In a shift from the plan he
proposed during the primary
season, he increased the tax rate
that the highest-earning Amer-
icans would pay.
With few exceptions, Trump
provided more of a philosophi-
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lies.
As he called for urgent
change away from Democratic
policies, he envisioned a nation
refocused on manufacturing at
home and wary of trade deals
abroad — a country bearing lit-
tle resemblance to the globally
focused economy of recent
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At her own rally in St. Peters-
burg, Florida, Clinton assailed
Trump’s plans, arguing they
would benefit the rich and do lit-
tle to create jobs or boost the
economy.
“His tax plans would give su-
per-big tax breaks to large cor-
porations and the really
wealthy” Clinton said, suggest-
ing they would push the country
into another recession.
She has scheduled her own
speech in Detroit later in the
week. Her campaign says she
will call for the largest invest-
ment in jobs since World War II.
years.
“Americanism, not global-
ism, will be our new credo,” he
said in his address at the Detroit
Evan Vucci/AP
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers an
economic policy speech to the Detroit Economic Club on
Monday in Detroit.
Economic Club. “Our country
will reach amazing new heights
— maybe heights never attained
before.”
Delivering his speech from a
teleprompter, Trump was inter-
rupted repeatedly by protesters
who stood on chairs and shout-
ed at him before being pulled
out of the room by security
guards. He did not react harshly
as he often has in the past, either
quietly thanking the guards or
That’s a departure from the
plan Trump unveiled last fall
during the GOP primary that
envisioned four brackets and a
top rate of 25 percent.
“Now the whole party is uni-
fied with a tax message,” said
Trump economic policy adviser
Stephen Moore.
simply powering ahead in his
speech.
Only days ago, Trump trig-
gered panic within the GOP
when he declined to endorse
House Speaker Paul Ryan’s re-
election or that of other leading
Republicans. He sought to put
the dust-up to bed Friday by fi-
nally backing those candidates
while also trying to move past
other controversies like his ver-
bal attacks on a Muslim-Amer-
ican family whose son died
fighting in Iraq.
Republicans inside and out-
side of Trump’s campaign have
implored him to shift the con-
Complexity makes airline
systems more vulnerable
Old schoolhouse returns home
school building was moved
Monday up a hill by an engine
on the back of a barge-like roll-
ing platform that filled both
lanes of the narrow country
road.
cated in 1869 to be closer to the
town center, is now back at the
small hilltop campus where
Alexander Twilight opened it
in 1823 and was its schoolmas-
ter. Twilight is the town’s cen-
tral historical figure and was
the first Afri can-American to
graduate from an American
college or university, getting a
degree from Middlebury Col-
lege.
By Dave Gram
Associated Press
BROWNINGTON, Vt.
(AP) — With dozens of oxen
leading the way, a historic
schoolhouse has been relocat-
ed to the original spot where a
prominent African-American
scholar and legislator was once
its schoolmaster.
For decades, the Orleans
County Grammar School
served as a Grange hall in
Brownington, a hilltop village
near the Canadian border. But
town officials decided they
wanted to move the 30-by-40-
foot white clapboard-sided
house a third of a mile up the
road to restore the Ullage’s his-
toric district to its 19th-century
condition.
The 105-ton timber-frame
By David Koenig
AP Airlines Writer
DALLAS — Twice in less
than a month, a major airline
was paralyzed by a computer
outage that prevented passen-
gers from checking in and flights
from taking off.
Last month, it took South-
west days to recover from a
breakdown it blamed on a faulty
router. On Monday, it was Del-
ta’s turn, as a power outage crip-
pled the airline’s information
technology systems and forced it
to cancel or delay hundreds of
flights. Delta employees had to
write out boarding passes by
hand, and at one airport they
resurrected a dot-matrix printer
from the graveyard of 1980s
technology.
Why do these kinds of melt-
downs keep happening?
The answer is that airlines
depend on huge, overlapping
and complex IT systems to do
just about everything, from op-
erating flights to handling tick-
eting, boarding, websites and
mobile-phone apps. And after
years of rapid consolidation in
the airline business, these com-
puter systems may be a hodge-
podge of parts of varying ages
and from different merger part-
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The 44 oxen, well, they
were there more for show and
to give the 900 or so onlookers
a feel of what it might have
been like to move the house
back in the day.
‘We were going to let the
oxen take it if they could and
help them out if they needed
it,” said Peggy Day Gibson, di-
rector of the Old Stone House
Museum in Brownington. “So
we’re doing this for show, and
we’re doing it for fun, and
we’re doing it to get the com-
munity involved.”
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The impetus for the move
came two years ago, when the
town was told it could no lon-
ger get insurance for a build-
ing without indoor plumbing
or a modem heating system.
Residents voted to offer the
building to the Orleans Coun-
ty Historical Society, which
oversees the Brownington his-
toric district.
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Konstance Woods talks on her cellphone with an agent as she
stands in line at the Delta ticketing counter at Washington’s
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Monday.
“These old legacy systems are
operating much larger airlines
that are being accessed in many,
many more ways,” said Daniel
Baker, CEO of tracking service
FlightAware.com. “It has really
been taxing.”
The result: IT failures that
can inconvenience tens of thou-
sands of passengers and create
long-lasting ill will.
It is unclear exactly what
went wrong at Delta. The airline
said it suffered a power outage at
an Atlanta installation around
2:30 a.m. EDT that caused
many of its computer systems to
fail. But the local electric compa-
ny, Georgia Power, said that it
was not to blame and that the
equipment failure was on Del-
ta’s end.
IT experts questioned
whether Delta’s network was ad-
equately prepared for the inevi-
table breakdown.
“One piece of equipment go-
ing out shouldn’t cause this,”
said Bill Curtis, chief scientist at
software-analysis firm Cast. “It’s
a bit shocking.”
Curtis said IT systems should
be designed so that when a part
fails, its functions automatically
switch over to a backup, prefera-
bly in a different location. ‘And if
I had a multibillion-dollar busi-
ness running on this, I would
certainly want to have some
kind of backup power,” he add-
NOTICE OF 2016 TAX YEAR
PROPOSED PROPERTY
TAX RATE FOR
CITY OF CORINTH
A tax rate of $0.581930 per $100 valuation has been proposed by the governing
body of CITY OF CORINTH. This rate exceeds the lower of the effective or
rollback tax rate, and state law requires that two public hearings be held by the
governing body before adopting the proposed tax rate.
These systems are also being
worked harder, with new fees
and options for passengers, and
more transactions
traffic has nearly doubled in the
past decade.
ed.
Delta officials declined to say
what kind of backup procedures
they have.
Delta’s
The governing body of CITY OF CORINTH proposes to use revenue attribut-
able to the tax rate increase for the purpose of increases to medical insurance,
legal fees, mowing and road maintenance, and fire services.
$0.581930 per $100
$0.584890 per $100
$0.543485 per $100
$0.581945 per $100
PROPOSED TAX RATE
PRECEDING YEAR’S TAX RATE
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EFFECTIVE TAX RATE
ROLLBACK TAX RATE
The effective tax rate is the total tax rate needed to raise the same amount of
property tax revenue for CITY OF CORINTH from the same properties in both
the 2015 tax year and the 2016 tax year.
The rollback tax rate is the highest tax rate that CITY OF CORINTH may adopt
before voters are entitled to petition for an election to limit the rate that may be
approved to the rollback rate.
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CAN YOU
NAME THAT
PLACE?
YOUR TAXES OWED UNDER ANY OF THE ABOVE RATES CAN BE
CALCULATED AS FOLLOWS:
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property tax amount = (rate) x (taxable value of your property) / 100
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For assistance or detailed information about tax calculations, please contact:
Michelle French
Denton County Tax Assessor-Collector
1505 E. McKinney Street Denton, TX
940-349-3500
michelle. french @ dentoncounty.com
tax. dentoncounty. com
LAST WEEK'S ANSWER
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You are urged to attend and express your views at the following public hearings
on proposed tax rate:
First Hearing:
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08/18/2016 7:00 PM at 3300 Corinth Parkway,
Corinth, TX 76208
Second Hearing:
09/01/2016 7:00 PM at 3300 Corinth Parkway,
Corinth TX 76208
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