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- G-Box Midnight MX2 Android 4.2 Jelly Bean Dual Core XBMC Streaming Mini HTPC TV Box Player
CE (Matricom)
Price:$119.00$97.00- True 1080p Dual Core XBMC HD Decoding! High performance Dual Core A9 CPU paired with the powerful Mali400 Dual Core 3D GPU Graphics Processor = Insane Android Performance. The MX2 has twice as much power as the original Midnight which provides the best Android experience available from any other competing product. Watch your favorite movies and live streams with vivid and smooth playback. Hook up a USB mouse (not included) and play your favorite Android games on the big screen!
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Home Theater (Sony)
Price:$129.99$94.99- Connections: 1 HDMI, 1 component, 1 composite, 1 Ethernet, 1 optical digital audio output, 1 USB
- Includes remote control; can also be controlled via free app for iPhone/iPod touch and select Android phones
- Built-in Wireless-N Wi-Fi networking (802.11b/g/n) plus Ethernet for wired connection
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Home Theater (VIZIO)
Price:$99.99$99.51- Access to the Best Entertainment: Google play lets you purchase the latest music, movies, apps, and games right from your TV screen
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CE (LG)
Price:$199.99$64.13- Add functionality by downloading hundreds of Apps from the LG App Store
- HDMI output ensures beautiful picture quality
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Home Theater (Philips)
Price:$129.99- Wi-Fi (usually shipped with a dongle else the Wifi would be built into the player). Wifi not required for streaming.
- USB 2.0 CVBS video output Analog RCA output Ethernet jack No component video output
- DivX Plus HD
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Social Security tax-gap spikes 65 percent in five years
The estimated boost in Social Security taxes needed to save retiree benefits has spiked 65 percent since 2008.
The required tax boost is rising because politicians keep postponing the decision on how to fully fund the growing cost of the baby boomers’ retirement, said Jason Fichtner, a former deputy commissioner and an economist at the Social Security Administration.
“If we continue on the current course, then by 2035 the retirement program become insolvent, and … we’ll need a gigantic tax increase or a gigantic benefit cut, or a combination of the two,” he said.
“The longer we wait, the worse it will be be,” he said.
Washington hasn’t fixed the huge problem because President Barack Obama has rejected significant cost-saving proposals and reforms that are opposed by progressive groups, and the GOP’s leaders’ won’t agree to the tax increases demanded by Obama.
Social Security is now funded by a 12.4 percent tax on workers’ salaries.