It would impose fines of up to $25,000 for paperwork violations. How many businesses could withstand one or two or three $25,000 fines for checking the wrong box?
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Related I don't know anything about fines or violations or whatever. That's something that I guess we'll hav... JOE BORDA I estimate a very conservative number of 25,000 dead homeboys. If 25,000 white people were killed in... TOM HAYDEN We do not want small businesses going out of business because of the fines. PATRICK LYDEN For CNBC, and for Wall Street, billion-dollar fines for violations of the law are just part of the p... ALEX PAREENE Most of the fines are not high enough to have a real deterrent effect. If the operators know they're... TONY OPPEGARD The biggest challenge for many consumers in going to a brokerage firm or opening a money-market acco... DAVID BACH You might pay 20 percent less for a car than you normally would, and for a car that is worth $25,000... DON CAMPBELL The key message is that we want to urge compliance, not issue fines. But, for those who don't want t... DEAN HIGUCHI The American people are happy to help small businesses grow, but paying fines for multi-millionaires... TONY CARDENAS We're gonna pay his fines. We'll deal with it for him. JON BON JOVI I can ask for a £25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and £25,000... MAL PEET I'll give you three putts, and if you make one of them, I'll give your First Tee $25,000. CHARLES BARKLEY Fines are not a deterrent. The level of fines that Congress has authorized is an insult to the Ameri... CHARLES JEFFRESS Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - busines... MA JUN 'Beverly Hills Cop' opened up a whole world. I got the television show and movies, and I wou... BRONSON PINCHOT For individuals who qualify, they can get back $20,000 to $25,000. DAN HARRIS I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful compute... BRENDAN FRASER Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win... DWAYNE JOHNSON Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines. ZEBULON PIKE Lincoln signed 25,000 of these. DANIEL WEINBERG Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern j... LARRY KING They're intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they... BARRY LEVINSON How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay? METHOD MAN You look around the world in 2013, and you say, 'How many prime ministers or presidents are in p... JOHN RALSTON SAUL It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It... NIGEL FARAGE Neither side reached 50 percent (in the lower house) and the margin is under 25,000 votes. Such a ti... PAOLO BONAIUTI In 2003, GlaxoSmithKline paid $88 million in civil fines for overcharging Medicaid for its anti-depr... BERNIE SANDERS I know some authors who have gotten $25,000 advances and put it all into marketing, others who alloc... M. J. ROSE It was designed to handle 20,000 to 25,000 applications a day. In one day it handled 110,000 applica... BARRY WEST Fourteen-hundred dollars a month in fines should be incentive enough for anyone to fix their propert... JEAN DELLIOS Some of the best navigators in the world are London taxi cab drivers. They have to learn 25,000 stre... JOHN O'KEEFE Our budget for streets has been $25,000. All that does is fix a few potholes. JANICE SMITH Good luck trying to collect these fines. It's a start, but the prospect of prison time would probabl... IRA MEHLMAN The average gates at Molineux are around 25,000, JACKIE MCNAMARA Technology, the Law of Equation and the English Language all have one shortfall, that even school te... APURVA GAGLANI I ask the corporate leaders present here today, who are you hiring for $25,000 a year? Certainly not... RAYMOND KELLY In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announc... CHARLES W. PICKERING The real one is worth about $25,000. These are all reproductions, but they're still nice to have. GEORGE FELTENSTEIN Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have... PAUL RYAN We're probably looking at somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000 to 25,000 people. CECIL LOGAN We probably order 25,000 titles a year and we probably have two people who look at this stuff. ED KIECZYKOWSKI If you owe $25,000 and you can pay $500 a month, there's nothing you need to hire me for. STEVE KASSEL The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph. STEPHEN HAWKING I have been running my own business as a sole trader now since 1976, and I was completely unaware th... CHRIS FOSS The $25,000 is about what we save the first year. JAMES RAYNER The amount of money that can be potentially obtained is significant, and the maximum penalties on so... BRUCE BURKETT The number was as high as 25,000 in fiscal 2000. MAXINE SHANE There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud. IAN MCKELLEN Customer: Do you have any crime books involving speeding fines? JEN CAMPBELL My wish is for gay to become less of a label, and more of just one of many great colors in the colle... ADAM LAMBERT I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... someti... KATE WINSLET The potential danger to the continued existence of the union rests with the adjudication of these fi... JUSTICE THEODORE JONES If they don't come up with something, the fines will go into effect at 12:01 a.m. Thursday morning. HAROLD CREEL Materials for a project like that cost around $15-25,000. So the family would expected to pay that b... GEORGE LEWIS They have not explained if they even know how this gas is going to move. Where does 25,000 gallons g... HANS WILHELMSEN There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determini... STEVEN CHU The United Nations Security Council has been silent on the war in northern Uganda for two decades. I... GREG PULEY [Outsourcing collections can be more cost-effective, especially when dealing with debtors is a priva... MIKE REYNOLDS In the next phase we'll be asking for fines against Bronco, 75 percent of which will go to the state... JAMES GEAGAN This year we will intensify our law enforcement efforts in this field. We will require law enforceme... ZHANG HUIGUANG A person who is an ethically right has to only fight for own rights against the big battalion of the... ANUJ SOMANY It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL I'd go two or three days when I'd throw and it would be OK. Then I'd wake up one morning and it woul... BOBBY HIGGINSON The president promised in two campaigns to nominate justices who will faithfully uphold the text and... WENDY LONG Marvin Bell always looked very closely at how lines could break, how you could put over one line int... JUAN FELIPE HERRERA The problem is there's no parking. Increasing the fines is not going to create more spaces. KATHY COOK We've taken all the known problems and solved them. We know for these 25,000 that they've been corre... JOSHUA SLEN It could be two or three years away. SIDNEY SILLER If we move two or three spots, that would be one thing, but I can't see us moving into the top five.... PHIL SAVAGE I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000... AHMET ERTEGUN It could be one wave, and two or three months later a different group of people being hit. LYNN DEJONG We don't have 25,000 messengers to send our message out like the school district has . JIM AULD That is a moving violation. There are fines and points against your license. DAVID SPEAR For us this year, it seems they've been coming in bunches. Once one happens, two or three more are s... BRIAN SIMMONS In the next two to three months, we'll finish up the paperwork and could start construction in March... DAN LUND The average coverage ($25,000 in contents) would probably run like $149 per year. That's about $12 a... JAN MILL They went to a box-and-one defense and did two or three other things to keep her limited. I'll tell ... DAN DERSAM I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for th... JAMES WHISTLER Because of condo litigation in California, builders have to charge an extra $15,000 to $25,000 per u... TOM CODY Episcopal Relief and Development immediately gave $25,000 grants to three different dioceses in the ... SCOTT FISHER Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone JANIS JOPLIN One of the rookie mistakes first-time entrepreneurs often make is to be too guarded about their idea... SCOTT WEISS Given the strides the Bulldogs have made in this area it would be a drastic step to look at competit... DAVID GALLOP It's a battleground state for them. Bradley went there two or three times for Clinton in 1996. There... ANITA DUNN What is a Muslim neighborhood? How many Muslims have to be in a neighborhood before it becomes worth... IBRAHIM HOOPER It was frustrating for me personally to get something done in two to three months through the organi... DENNIS PARKER There's not many people getting into it anymore, ... Even with the prices we have, it would be tough... GENE WILSON It's not just the fines. More importantly, our licenses are our livelihood. We can't be in a positio... WADE SHANOWER One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or busi... ANDREW MASON I think the key indicator for wealth is not good grades, work ethic, or IQ. I believe it's relations... JAROD KINTZ For the average Net surfer, manually checking 20 or 30 sites every hour for breaking news would make... CHRISTOPHER NULL My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.' VICKI LAWRENCE The Crime Victims Fund is distributed to service providers who assist millions of crime victims annu... JIM COSTA Over $25,000 has been raised this year, and we still have four months to go. BARBARA ERICKSON No matter how many troops we have in place or how long they stay, we cannot impose a parliamentary d... NICK CLOONEY Finally, my family posted a $25,000 bond, and they used a lot of connection over that. GALEH GAHANDIDEH He could have had one or two runners doubled off on the line drive, but didn't throw the ball for so... BILL BUSCETTO It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: on... FRANK ZAPPA John Kerry and John Edwards would be smart to make their case for gay and lesbian fairness by not me... PATRICK GUERRIERO
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