Australia plans tax, cuts to pay for floods

Friday, January 28, 2011

CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia wants to tax those not affected by massive flooding and cut spending to pay the more than $5 billion bill it is anticipating after weeks of rain swamped the country's third-largest city and forced thousands from their homes.

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