Editorials | Hey big spender
EICFWFA Â THE House majority bloc members have introduced H.B. 22-19, the earned income tax credit or EITC bill with a clunky and grandiloquent title, âEnd Income Crush for Working Families Act.â We notice, however, that the bill doesnât tell us the whole story about the EITC program in the CNMI. There was no mention that it was implemented during the administration of Gov. Froilan âLangâ C. Tenorio (1994-1998) when the local economy had soared to stratospheric heights. Tourist arrivals were at their historic peak (over 700,000 in 1997; compared to, more or less, ze...
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