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...this idea when he was reporting his January cover story on energy efficiency. He later discovered that during Obama's election effort, there was a secret consortium of the nation's leading behaviorists who were advising the campaign. Now the Administration boasts a number of senior members--including Budget Director Peter Orszag and regulatory-czar nominee Cass Sunstein--who are using these ideas to help change the economy and our behavior...
Antismoking advocates tout this month's record increase in the federal cigarette-tax rate, which on April 1 spiked from 39˘ to $1.01 per pack, as a move that will bolster the federal budget while saving an estimated 900,000 lives. Supporters say the measure will stop 2 million kids from lighting up and spur about 1 million adults to quit, but the sharp hike has some smokers fuming. Cigarette taxes, detractors argue, are a way for governments to line their coffers by legislating personal choice--and a prime example of a regressive "sin tax," the term often used...
...smoke. I just find the rate unfair.” Leavitt & Peirce customer Joseph D. Reaves, said that he felt that the recent rise in tobacco taxes was ludicrous. “I think it’s just another vice tax. [The government is] trying to balance the budget on the backs of smokers,” he said. Some local smokers said they agreed with MacDonald and mentioned that the tax hike would affect the smokers more than the tobacco corporations. “It’s ridiculous. It doesn’t hurt the tobacco companies...
...melancholy. Hiroko (Ayako Fujitani), the principle character of “Interior Design,” is the beleaguered girlfriend of an aspiring filmmaker, Akira (Ryo Kase), set with the task of finding a place for the couple to live. As Akira’s movie, an absurdly low-budget existential horror called “The Garden of Degradation,” gains attention and Hiroko’s role in the relationship becomes more and more marginalized, she begins to transform into—and finally becomes—a wooden chair. Able to transition between a human...
...This was a rare instance of Barack Obama reacting reflexively, without attempting to think creatively, about a serious policy question. He was, in fact, taking the traditional path of least resistance: an unexpected answer on marijuana would have launched a tabloid firestorm, diverting attention from the budget fight and all those bailouts. In fact, the default fate of any politician who publicly considers the legalization of marijuana is to be cast into the outer darkness. Such a person is assumed to be stoned all the time, unworthy of being taken seriously. Such a person would be lacerated by the assorted...