NewsWhore
12-03-2008, 03:30 PM
A bi-cameral Congressional committee is studying the possibility of increasing the taxes on credit card transactions, gun permits and fireworks in order to cover the cost of increasing doctors' and nurses' pay. Listin Diario reports that government needs to come up with an annual extra RD$3 billion to cover the wage increase. Subsidies in the DR are at an all-time high, as is the national deficit. The world is entering an economic crisis and government spending is also at an all-time high, making it difficult to find the money for these increases.
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