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Authorities warn of teens using e-cigs, vape pens to smoke marijuana
Sanders’ Tax Plan Soaks Everybody, With the Wealthiest Paying Millions More
Merced County students receive the states Biliteracy stamp of approval

Authorities warn of teens using e-cigs, vape pens to smoke marijuana

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 01:39 PM PST

Electronic cigarettes are more popular than ever, especially among high school students, but teens are doing more than just vaping nicotine.

Sanders’ Tax Plan Soaks Everybody, With the Wealthiest Paying Millions More

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 03:15 AM PST

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont has vowed to soak the rich and the "billionaire class" to finance his grand schemes for universal health care, free college tuition, family leave and major infrastructure projects. The latest analysis of the Democratic presidential candidate's tax proposals, issued Friday by the joint Tax Policy Center of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution, concluded that Sanders would spread the pain of higher taxes across the board, but with the wealthiest 0.1 percent of Americans getting hit with an average increase of more than $3 million in 2017 – or nearly 45 percent of their $6.9 million average after-tax income. By contrast, the tax increase proposals being floated by Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton that target the wealthiest sliver of taxpayers would generate $1.1 trillion in revenues over the first decade, according to a separate analysis by the tax policy center.