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Sen. Bernard Sanders, Vermont independent and one of 29 budget negotiators, wants to expand social safety nets and proposes paying for it by taxing stock trades, increasing the estate tax and raising income tax rates for the top 2 percent of earners. (Associated Press)
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Analysts say the lower-than-expected traffic on the 495 Express Lanes, built through a private-public partnership, could be a result of changing transit patterns, an indication that drivers lack familiarity with the lanes or that predictions in early planning stages were overly optimistic. (Associated Press)
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A U.S. default "would be a tremendous problem," said Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of the Japan-U.S. Business Council, but he added that Japanese business leaders don't think that will happen. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
