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...Worse yet, by extending the home-buyer tax credit, especially to existing homeowners, we run the risk of creating a situation where it never goes away. If a tax credit - or any other economic benefit - sticks around long enough, people start feeling entitled to it, even if it was originally supposed to be temporary. In academic literature this is called the endowment effect. Taking away such a program once it's ingrained can be a monumental political challenge. It's not just that expanding the home-buyer tax credit would cost $50 billion to $100 billion this year...
...vote.Hammonds and Smith disagreed with this particular suggestion. Smith wrote in a letter to Dowling Committee chair Professor John E. Dowling in May, “I would like to clarify...that the role of committees is to provide recommendations to the deans, who then make decisions with the benefit of those recommendations.”Some students were unsatisfied by degree of change in the College administration.“It’s important that the administration works to implement...provisions of really allowing students and student-faculty [committees] to be decision-making bodies,” said...
...This study shows the benefit of people seeking medical attention early on,” O’Hagan says, adding that the study has been forwarded to the CDC and is waiting for publication...
...moment” and that it would be “premature” to begin planning in Allston Landing South, where CSX operates its Beacon Park railyard. But she noted that discussions with the State and CSX “provide optimism that...opportunities for regional economic benefit from this property are closer to a reality...
...think we still want to go. We think the sooner that this happens it will benefit everyone. We think that at the end of the day we have to assist the Afghan people resolve their own problems and issues. So, the work and assistance we can give over Afghanistan is just say that these policies are wrong, that's a big help, and then help decide on the right course of action. You all know quite well that the situation in Afghanistan right now is far worse than it was eight years ago. So increasing the number of troops does...