Posts Tagged ‘paid’

Romney paid $3M in federal income tax in 2010 (AP)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures during a Republican presidential debate Monday Jan. 23, 2012, at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney paid about $3 million in federal income taxes in 2010, having earned more than seven times that from his investments. Those earnings, $21.7 million, put him among the wealthiest of American taxpayers.


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FACT CHECK: Obama’s jobs plan paid for? Seems not (AP)

President Barack Obama hands copies of his speech to Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner before he speaks to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP – President Barack Obama’s promise Thursday that everything in his jobs plan will be paid for rests on highly iffy propositions.


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CEOS earned more money than corporations paid in taxes: report

Twenty five CEOs of the richest American corporations got paid more last year than their entire firms coughed up to Uncle Sam, a bombshell new report says.

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Minnesota shutdown stirs debate over who gets paid (AP)

FILE - In this July 6, 2011, file photo, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton addresses the media outside his office following a meeting with Republican leaders at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn. While thousands of Minnesota employees go without paychecks Monday, July 11, 2011,  because the state government is shut down, many lawmakers are still being paid. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Jim Gehrz, File)AP – While thousands of Minnesota employees go without paychecks because the state government is shut down, many lawmakers are still being paid. And the list of workers whose services are deemed “essential” includes the governor’s housekeeper and his personal chef.


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Obamas paid $453,770 in 2010 taxes

WASHINGTON – President Obama isn’t exactly hurting for cash, but his income took a nearly 70% hit last year from his first year in office, the White House disclosed Monday.

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Consumers paid more for most goods in January (AP)

FILE - In this file photo taken Oct. 1, 2008, cotton grows in a field near Keo, Ark., before being harvested. Prices for commodities like cotton, oil, corn and wheat have soared in recent months, squeezing profit margins at many companies and forcing others to pass on the higher costs to retailers. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)AP – Consumers paid more in January for everything from food and gas to airline tickets and clothing. The price increases reflect creeping but still-modest inflation.


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Capri Anderson: I was paid to keep mum about Sheen

The high-priced escort found locked naked in the bathroom of Charlie Sheen’s trashed Plaza hotel room last month is emerging to tell her story on TV.

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