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Well, probably not you, of course. The message of the new book America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?, by Pulitzer-prize-winning reporters Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, is that slippery moves like these are available only to corporations and millionaires, many of whom are already taxed at far lower rates than the rest of us. In 1989, in fact, 1,081 people with incomes over $200,000 ended up paying no federal taxes at all, thanks to what Barlett and Steele call the "privileged-person...
Unfortunately, however, tax coddling doesn't necessarily put the overclass in the mood to generate decent employment. Barlett and Steele offer the case of Buster Brown shoes, which managed, by means of some cunning detours through the Caymans, to reduce its 1987 tax rate to 1.7% of sales. Meanwhile, the company was laying off hundreds of stateside employees, who for their part had no choice but to pay taxes on their unemployment benefits. Or contemplate the 1950s, when corporate tax rates were piratical by today's standards but unemployment was low and the middle class was busily expanding...
...social science." Meyer's findings on the riots helped the Free Press win a Pulitzer. It also inspired him to write Precision Journalism, a computer reporters' bible that came out in 1973. Among the first reporters to turn to the machine were the Philadelphia Inquirer's Donald Barlett and James Steele. They used an IBM for a 1973 series that won two national awards for revealing disparate court sentencing of violent offenders. "If we did that story all by hand," says Steele, "we'd still be working on it." But, he cautions, "the computer does not take the place...
...PREMISE of The Crimson majority position rests on the assumption that President Bok should speak out on issues of national importance. Further, it supposes that Bok has neglected this responsibilty, in comparison with A. Barlett Giamatti's sweeping condemnation of the Moral Majority...
...statement written by Yale president A. Barlett Giamatti on behalf of the council, however, the presidents also said loans the individual had made to 12 "students currently enrolled at...Harvard, Princeton, and Yale...constitute grounds for further examination...