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Opinion is mixed about whether tax that primarily targets the rich would solve today's debt problems. "Once the marginal rate exceeds 40%, you get high levels of tax avoidance and evasion," says Daniel Feenberg, an associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass. (See the best business deals...
...course, investors' nerves are based on the idea that a clear election winner would create the best conditions for tackling that treacherous shortfall. While it's a reasonable assumption, it's hardly foolproof. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has little credibility left when it comes to the economy following his stint as Britain's free-spending Finance Minister in the decade leading up to the financial crisis. And although the Conservatives have pledged immediate cuts to the deficit should they win, they're still light on detail. (See a Q&A with Gordon Brown...
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...that even when we communicate via e-mail, we may be more inclined to lie or distort if the lights are low than if the room were filled with sunshine. Perhaps the next time you - or your kids - sit down at the computer to chat or text, it's best to raise the blinds and insist that the person on the other...
Civil libertarians condemn the Patriot Act for unconstitutionally curtailing the right to privacy. However, as no such right is explicitly enumerated in the Constitution, this protection is at best controversial. We readily acknowledge that the Patriot Act’s provisions necessarily curtail privacy, but we strongly reject assertions of its illegitimacy...