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Complexity aside, there is a strong argument that using the tax code is an inefficient and expensive way to accomplish economic or social goals. Most economists will tell you that multiplying IRAs is unlikely to prompt the additional savings the U.S. economy needs; investors may only shift money out of less favored forms of savings. As for college-tuition tax breaks, Richard Murnane, an education professor at Harvard, fears they will turn into "subsidies for middle-class parents sending kids to college. Most middle-class parents do that already, so there's not much gain." Then there...
...real shame of Hong Kong's handover [ONE COUNTRY, MANY SYSTEMS, June 30] is that neither the Chinese monarchists, Nationalists nor Communists in their succession have been able to accomplish on the mainland what the British did through their colonial administration of Hong Kong. Colonialism, in general, has had an ugly and venal past, but not so the British version. To be sure, the British may seem to be stereotypically aloof, superior and uncompromising, but wherever the British went they performed better than their predecessors and successors. They brought democracy and made a better civilization. Moreover, they fostered in their...
...politics, weren't we? There is, of course, a more complex relationship among these factors than I imply, and I am resolute that, overall, our society is more complex now than it has ever been. But though the number of laws on the books has exploded, legislation can only accomplish so much; I submit there is a link amoung personal responsibility, civic duty and the health and happiness of a nation...
...didn't accomplish. One item on the agenda at Rio, for example, was a renewed effort to save tropical forests. (A previous U.N.-sponsored initiative had fallen apart when it became clear that it actually hastened deforestation.) After Rio, a U.N. working group came up with more than 100 recommendations that have so far gone nowhere. One proposed forestry pact would do little more than immunize wood-exporting nations against trade sanctions...
...fact, if the number of teenage puffers doesn't decline by 50% within seven years, the industry will be subject to additional penalties. "Only the discovery of major vaccines," said Massachusetts' Scott Harshbarger, president of the National Association of Attorneys General, "could rival what this proposal promises to accomplish...