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Over the past few years, the U.S. tax system has started to play Robin Hood in reverse. The availability of new tax shelters, combined with lax enforcement by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), has let the rich and dishonest evade their obligations and increase the burden on the American public. Without drastic reform, tax loopholes and outright evasion will create a vast paid subsidy for the wealthy—or, to put it another way, a huge hidden tax on everyone else...
...eyes tend to glaze over when faced with numbers like these, but $300 billion a year is more than we spend on Medicare). In all, EITC recipients are three times more likely to be audited than those with incomes above $100,000. Why would Congress put such a disproportionate burden on the working poor? Here’s a guess—the people pocketing the $300 billion tend to have more political influence...
...They say they want to pay this high wage so people can afford to live in Santa Monica," says Selwyn Wyosslowitz, who co-owns a chain of six Southern California restaurants. "No one can afford to live in Santa Monica. Get real. How are you going to put the burden on restaurants for $13 an hour?" Some restaurateurs say they might move to neighboring towns if the Santa Monica law goes into effect--but for now they are fighting for their referendum...
...Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act. Under this law, herbal products like kava are classified as dietary supplements. Neither food nor drugs, they don't have to be proved safe or effective before being sold in the U.S. If there's something wrong with them, the burden of proof falls on the FDA, which does not have the money or the staff to evaluate every new herb, vitamin, mineral and enzyme that comes to market. "We don't have a lot of resources," acknowledges Dr. Christine Taylor, who heads the FDA office that handles dietary supplements...
...pursuit of wmds justifies war in the near future. After all, ask critics, hasn't he been seeking them for two decades? Why should we fight now? Is it just a desire by George Bush to finish what his daddy failed to, and by Blair to bear any burden necessary to snuggle with Uncle Sam? If Saddam does get these weapons, won't he be deterred from using them by fear of retaliation that would annihilate his country? Officials think they have serious answers to all those questions, but that people are now too somnolent to pay attention - "They have...