1. No money ever left the federal coffers without carrying a baggage of conditions, guidelines, and restrictions. 2. After the Clinton administration embraced auctions as a way to fatten federal coffers, Congress converted, voting last year to require auctions for most nonbroadcast licenses. 3. But federal coffers are now flush with surplus and a generation of Baby Boomers is careening toward Medicare eligibility. 4. Congress mandated that money from this surcharge go directly into federal coffers and then be appropriated back to the agency each year. 5. Elimination of capital gains and estate taxes would drain billions from federal coffers and require drastic cuts in domestic programs and entitlements in order to cover the lost revenue. 6. Huge inflows of foreign capital have been keeping U.S. interest rates down and stock prices up, both of which also keep the money flowing into federal coffers. 7. If our state and federal coffers are being used to support those retirees, will there be any money left to help students with tuition? 8. Such a tax increase would certainly shovel trillions of dollars of revenue into Federal coffers over the next quarter-century. 9. The debate was feathered with holiday allusions to Thanksgiving turkeys and national gratitude for reopening the federal coffers, at least until mid-December. 10. The report declines to make a conclusion on the issue, but critics say the university is trying to double-dip from federal coffers. |