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...eating establishments and other public areas. Many of these regulations are the direct result of grassroots advocacy efforts; "It's been a very effective strategy," says McKenna." If the discussion moves to a centralized place like the state legislatures, opponents can concentrate their efforts and water down the argument for a ban. But if there are 40 municipalities working on smoking bans at the same time, it's difficult for opponents to fight so many battles at the same time...
...University of Illinois. Fleischer explained this conclusion in a paper that he began circulating last year. Since then, his brief for taxing carried interest as ordinary income--what the proposed House bill would do--has won over tax wonks and piqued congressional interest. "It seems like a reasonable argument," says Alan Auerbach, a University of California, Berkeley, economist and tax expert. "I don't think there are many people in the tax-policy community who believe that it isn't." But there's no law that says the tax code has to be reasonable, and the private-equity guys claim...
Beyond the risks of addiction, however, officials warn that there are dangerous links between the drug business and funding for terrorism - an argument that U.S. authorities use to press European governments to crack down on drug networks. They point to the fact that the explosives used in the Madrid train bombings of 2004, which killed 191 people, were bought with hashish. "We are seeing increasing incidents of the use of drug barter for munitions in terror attacks," U.S. Drug Enforcement Administrator Karen Tandy told international law-enforcement officials at a meeting in Madrid...
...Japanese nationalists have a point when they argue that nations like China go too far in scapegoating Japan, while conveniently forgetting the billions of dollars in economic aid Tokyo has disbursed across the region over the past decades. But that argument would be stronger if the Tokyo's own attitude towards Japan's wartime actions in Asia didn't seem so insincere...
...argue all day about where to draw the line and say to rich and poor: You cannot make this deal, even if it benefits both of you. It is too unseemly. Or here's a thought: We can create a market in winning the argument. The rich person can purchase the right not to be challenged, and the poor person, for a fee, can agree to shut up. Everybody's happy. Isn't capitalism great...