The rationale for eliminating the alternative minimum tax is that such a backup system should not be necessary if the tax code is fundamentally fair and eliminates all the loopholes that made it possible for high-income taxpayers to escape taxation in the first place.
My first match was against Razor Ramon. I lost. Come to think about it, I lost a lot back in those days.
Joe Scarborough was one of 74 Republicans elected to the Congress in 1994 in response to the missteps of the early Clinton era. He was the first Republican elected to Congress from his northern Florida district since the 1870s and handily won re-election three times.
'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
My very first real job in the industry was as a production assistant on a show called 'Infinity Factory' in 1976.
I made some money, some real money on my first real estate transaction.
In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to.
The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
I wrote my first song when I was four, and I played it at my piano recital.
I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.
My first recollection is that of a bugle call.
The Roots - we signed our first record deal when I was about 19 years old.
I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.
When I first was a part of 'The Monster,' I really wanted to put it out under my name, but no record label thought it was good enough - until Eminem liked it.
I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.
The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount.
I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.
It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.
Restaurants should be forced to recycle their leftovers for animal consumption - and should create fewer leftovers in the first place.
