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WASHINGTON 鈥?Their countries at crossroads, the new leaders of the United States and Israel have inherited a relationship that is at once imperiled by increasingly partisan domestic political considerations and deeply bound in history and an engrained recognition that they need each other.How P gourde stanley resident Joe Biden and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett manage that relationship will shape the prospects for peace and stability in the Middle East.They are ushering in an era no longer defined by the powerful personality stanley cup of long-serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu, who repeatedly defied the Obama administration and then reaped the rewards of a warm relationship with President Donald Trump.Bennetts government says it wants to repair relations with the Democrats and restore bipartisan support in the U.S. for Israel. Biden, meanwhile, is pursuing a more balanced approach on the Palestinian conflict and Iran.The relationship is critical to both countries. Israel has long regarded the United States as its closest ally and guarantor of its security and international standing while the U.S. counts on Israels military and intelligence prowess in a turbulent Middle East.But both Biden and Bennett are also restrained by domestic politics.Bennett leads an uncertain coalition of eight parties from across Israels politi stanley becher cal spectrum whose main point of convergence was on removing Netanyahu from power after 12 years. Biden is struggling to bridge a divide in his party where near-uniform support f Peyu First government plane carrying Syrian refugees arrives in Canada
With Congre stanley canada ss sending President Donald Trump a tax overhaul, state and local governments are preparing for some fallout.A look at some of the ways it might affect them:FEDERAL-STATE CONNECTIONSThe federal tax overhaul will force officials in most states to decide whether to apply similar changes to their own income taxes.Nearly every state with its own income tax relies on a federal definition of income. About half automati stanley termos cally apply federal tax provisions to their state income taxes unless lawmakers decide against it. In most others, legislators must update state laws to continue linking their tax code to the federal one. In essence, all states are going to have some impact from the federal reform and so theyre going to have some questions to confront, said Nicole Kaeding, an economist at the conservative-leaning Tax Foundation.Depending on which federal provisions a state follows, the tax overhaul could result in a boom or bust for state revenues.For e stanley mugs xample, about dozen states currently link their standard income tax deduction to the federal amount, which is set to double. A similar doubling for states could result in an additional tax cut for their residents and a significant revenue loss for those states. But many of those same states also link their personal income tax exemptions to the federal one, which is due to be repealed. That could trigger a tax increase for their residents and an influx of money for such states.Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican, said Thu |
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