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...other than the government. The program, authorized by a little-noticed state law passed last summer, and headlined by the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, could eventually rake $15 million into state coffers. "When the news leaked out," reports TIME Los Angeles correspondent Dave Jackson, "it caused an immediate backlash here." Proponents of the program point out that individuals would have to give their consent before their income information is revealed, but critics doubt the safeguards. "Recent computer hacker incidents don?t help inspire much confidence," says Jackson...
...numerous other regional identities were all absorbed into the single entity of modern Germany. The urban industrial economy assimilated many of those distinct regional identities and forged a single culture. In some areas, this process occurred relatively smoothly; elsewhere, the process was uneven and sometimes sparked a nationalist backlash. Among the Basques of Spain or the Corsicans of France, this has taken the form of separatist violence. Among the Scots it has been largely confined to the soccer field. After all, they receive 32 percent more per capita of London's public funds than the English do, which...
There may be an immediate backlash, however...
...billion and $5 billion, respectively. But it is not clear how long the government can contain the resentment of those who don't have the skills to "shift gears." South Korea's cantankerous unions kept a lid on protests last year, fearful of a backlash from the public. But in February they showed their patience was wearing thin when they walked out of a three-party committee--representing labor, government and companies--set up last year to navigate the crisis. The muscle flexing remains low key for now, but if Seoul doesn't get the message, the unions promise...
...what Fritz calls a "basic principle of migration. The more pilgrims migrated to the promised land, the less promising it became." By 1992 Germany had half a million registered asylum seekers and it was estimated that twice that number had arrived illegally. These difficulties led to an anti-immigrant backlash in Germany, with groups of neo Nazis openly attacking anyone they perceived to be foreign. Germany had allowed an enormous number of refugees and migrants into its borders but had not been able to develop an effective plan for their assimilation or integration...