2021/05/09 22:58 CRAYNOR, Ky. (AP) Eula Hall, who opened a clinic almost 50 years ago in Appalachia and never stopped trying to help others, has died. She was 93. Hall, of Craynor in Floyd County, Kentucky, died Saturday at her home, according to Hall Funeral Home in Martin. She founded the Mud Creek Clinic in 1973, bringing health care to a remote area and continued working there until she died, news outlets reported. The clinic is now known as the Eula Hall Health Center and is operated by Big Sandy Health Care. “Eula Hall was one of Eastern Kentucky’s greatest saints, U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers, longtime representative of the region, said in a statement. “No challenge was greater than her courage to change the circumstances of healthcare in the mountains. Driven by her own experience with poverty, Eula dedicated her life to ensuring every person had access to medical care, regardless of their ability to pay for services or pre
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Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said a corporate tax rate between 25% and 28% could help pay for badly needed infrastructure, suggesting he could accept a lower rate than what he has proposed in his search for Republican support for the funding.
“The way I can pay for this, is making sure that the largest companies don’t pay zero, and reducing the (2017 corporate) tax cut to between 25 and 28” percent, Biden said during a visit to Lake Charles, Louisiana.
In his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, the Democratic president initially proposed raising the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%. Tax experts and congressional aides told Reuters in April that a 25% rate would be a likely compromise.
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A man walks in a flooded field after Hurricane Delta, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S., October 10, 2020. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo
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President Joe Biden on Thursday will visit the Gulf Coast state of Louisiana, which has backed Republicans in U.S. elections for the past two decades, to tout his plans to invest in water and storm projects in cities that have been battered by hurricanes.
Biden, a Democrat, will visit both the decidedly liberal-leaning city of New Orleans, still scarred 15 years after Hurricane Katrina, and deeply conservative Lake Charles, a city of 77,000 with a major refinery and petrochemical plants, which was slammed by Hurricanes Laura and Delta last year.
Biden willing to accept 25% corporate tax rate to fund spending programs The way I can pay for this, is making sure that the largest companies don t pay zero, and reducing the (2017 corporate) tax cut to between 25 and 28 percent, Biden said during a visit to Lake Charles, Louisiana.
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U.S. President Joe Biden boards Air Force One at Chennault International Airport in Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S. May 6, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
LAKE CHARLES, La., May 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said a corporate tax rate between 25% and 28% could help pay for badly needed infrastructure, suggesting he could accept a lower rate than what he has proposed in his search for Republican support for the funding.