Word: argument
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Most tax plans start with increasing the portion that the very wealthy pay as a percent of their income. That is not just true in America. It is a global way of raising money to support government programs, and, by most accounts, it is fairly successful. The major argument against this form of taxation that taxing people who make a lot of money will diminish their entrepreneurial incentives. The wealthy will lose their desire to create more wealth...
...approaches India and Indians with a new sensibility. Slumdog's central trio aren't victims; they're individuals, and they each manage in different ways to rewrite the lives they've been born into. Jamal, in the film, talks a lot about destiny, but his story is really an argument against it. It's a long way from City of Joy, the 1992 film in which Om Puri's noble rickshaw puller shows Patrick Swayze's disillusioned doctor the path to enlightenment. Slumdog recognizes that poverty isn't ennobling; it's infuriating, and only the cunning escape...
...financial unit, GECS, will suffer from high default rates as the recession undermines the ability of its business and consumer customers to pay their bills. A Deutsche Bank analyst recently wrote that GE Capital has zero value in contributing to the value of the company's stock. His argument is that the unrealized losses on the financial unit's balance sheet are greater than most investors understand. On top of the analyst's report, The Wall Street Journal reported that GE has significant exposure to the failing commercial real estate market. (Watch a GE advert shown during the Super Bowl...
...argument that economists would make for the appropriateness of the downfall of print is based on "creative destruction." As one generation of products or services become obsolete it is replaced by another which better fits the current environment. The car industry and the banks in their current incarnations look like they will dodge any application of this principle in the real world...
...other choice but to try and hide herself and live her life through somebody else’s identity,” Fitz said. Fitz said she was particularly disappointed with the verdict because she said it dismissed mental illness as merely a “creative argument.” But Walt Wilkins, the prosecutor and U.S. attorney for the District of South Carolina, said Reed’s scams were purely an effort to support herself after she had left home in 1999, and that Reed had continued to put herself in social situations despite the defense that...