NCPA - Daily Policy Digest - Wednesday, May 15, 2002

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Daily Policy Digest
Wednesday, May 15, 2002

	Oil industry paid $85 billion in taxes in 2000, $32 billion more than they made in profits....
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

	Canada is the largest energy supplier to the U.S., providing 9 percent of oil and 15 percent of natural gas consumed in the U.S....
WALL STREET JOURNAL

	Businesses will lose $600 billion this year to employee fraud, while attempting to combat it in a variety of ways....
USA TODAY

	Medicare will go broke in 2030 unless the government raises taxes, lowers benefits -- or reforms the program....
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

	German socialists have lowered tax rates and stock ownership has tripled in the past five years....
HOOVER INSTITUTION

	The price-tag for September 11 may be $2 trillion; but the full costs depend on the success of policy responses....
MILKEN INSTITUTE

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