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...Despite the arguments of opponents, the deal did have plenty of support in Germany. Tax evasion is a major problem in the country, costing the government about $40 billion a year, according to Lehner. German opposition parties supported buying the CD if it would help uncover the identities of suspected tax dodgers. "It's a scandal that [the authorities] pursue every parking offender but not those people who evade paying up to $300 million in taxes," Sigmar Gabriel, chairman of the Social Democratic Party, told the paper Hamburger Abendblatt. The German police union was equally adamant that moral concerns should...
These days, Bill Gates is as well known for setting new trends in humanitarianism as he is for advancing technology. On Jan. 29, Gates announced that his charitable foundation would, over the course of the next decade, donate $10 billion to vaccine development, research, and delivery—the largest amount of money ever donated to a single cause. Copious amounts of credit, thanks, and praise should be given to Bill and Melinda Gates for providing funds for a very worthy cause...
...very complexity of this issue demands that we cast a critical eye on all well-intentioned efforts to remedy global health deficiencies worldwide, no matter who leads these efforts or the monetary backing accompanying them. Bill Gates’ recent pledge of $10 billion toward global immunization of children is no exception...
...Union address, there was one term he did not use: carbon cap. And in its proposed budget for fiscal year 2011, released on Monday, the White House did not name a specific dollar figure for revenue it expects from cap and trade. Last year's budget projected $79 billion in revenue from the auction of carbon credits...
...healthy dose of guarded capitalism is what America needs. Obama’s proposals, one of which is a $33 billion-dollar business tax credit, will shore up many failing small businesses in America’s heartland by providing a tax credit for each net hire by a small business. That, in addition to good labor incentivization practices, innovative ideas by talented workers, and moderate compensation packages for top executives and employees, promise to be the remedies for this ill economy. Unless middle-class Americans fight back against the excesses of Wall Street executives who make more...