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The shortfall is covered by the 8 percent federal tax on commercial airline tickets.
Instead of an expected Mendelian ratio of 87% cop1 -like plants, only 38% were observed, a significant shortfall.
Newsweek calculates the bottom line on the president's plan to save Social Security: It promises away a full 151 percent of the projected budget surplus, and would create a shortfall of $2.
The Republicans will argue the shortfall isn't that big, because they are going to cover some of it by onetime savings: dipping into the bank insurance funds--never mind the S&L collapse, that was eons ago--and, of course, selling off part of the broadcast spectrum-- the most oversold commodity since the Brooklyn Bridge.
Some of the subsidies exceed capital and maintenance costs: If the White Sox fail to draw 1.5 million annual fans at New Comiskey Park in the 11th through 20th years of their lease, the state of Illinois is contractually obliged to cover the shortfall at the gate by buying upto 300,000 tickets.