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...market by announcing that people who buy a home during the next year will be exempt from federal income tax if and when they later resell that home for a profit. Driven by the profit motive - and tax-free profit at that - real estate investors and others would soon begin snapping up short sales, foreclosures and any other bargains they could find. Unsold housing inventories and mortgage foreclosures would decline, and the housing market would be on its way to recovery. Good old-fashioned capitalism would again save the day. Charles Lingenfelter, CARLSBAD, CALIF...
...Taxachusetts.” A libertarian advocacy group has placed a ballot question in front of voters which would repeal the state income tax. The measure, sponsored by the Committee for Small Government, would reduce the current state income tax rate of 5.3% to 2.65% beginning on January 1, 2009, and eliminate it completely the following year. Taxpayers would save an average of $3,600 a year, at a cost of roughly $12.5 billion, or 40 percent, of the state budget. While government officials argue that the initiative would decimate government projects ranging from Massachusetts?...
...something happens in our final year. As Harvard begins to clamp their umbilical cords, seniors suddenly find themselves to be small fish in a big tumultuous ocean. Of course they can’t cure cancer just by having worked in a Med School lab for a year! Of course they can’t win the Pulitzer for reporting on war crimes in Chechnya just because they were on The Crimson! As this dreadful cynicism creeps in, Harvard students begin to abandon their dreams of helping New Orleans or children in Ghana; all they really hope...
...slow descent into the Looking Glass land that hurricanes create begins just south of Houston along Interstate Highway 45, the road to Galveston Island. The first odd note is the number of blown out billboards and signs. The gold has gone from the Golden Arches, the toll-free phone number on the billboard for the class action law firm has been torn and tossed to the wind. Then the blue tarps begin to appear, stretched taut over the rooftops of strip malls and apartment buildings...
...road certainly did not begin easily. In the first round of qualifying singles, Ko faced Duke’s Tara Iyer, ranked No. 60 in the nation...