Word: burdens
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...there to protect people's lives and property. That's a very significant burden when it's one person, but when it's thousands of people ... The first thing you want to do is to stabilize the situation and get help to people. You have to set up centers to do that. You have to provide information. You have to be able to provide water--and in the South in the summertime...
...Congress needs to do what Britain did in the mid-90s: Privatize the national rail system. Historically, nationalized rail systems have often been trainwrecks. Before privatization, France’s national rail was 200 billion francs in debt, and the UK’s rail system was a heavy burden on tax-payers. Ten years down the track since privatization, the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) reports that the British National Rail currently holds Europe’s highest growth rate of passenger kilometers. Amtrak could do the same...
...Bush began promoting his tax cut, he repeatedly threw out one statistic intended to prove that his tax plan was actually good for the poor. The Bush tax cut, he claimed, would increase the percentage of the nation’s tax burden shouldered by taxpayers from the top 40 percent of income earners. Since so much of what Bush said about his tax plans was just plain fabricated, I and a lot of liberals assumed that this statistic was just another example of “fuzzy math.” But it wasn?...
...under the Howard government-and of the general thrust of two decades of tax reform-by Professor Patricia Apps from the University of Sydney is revealing. She found that the combination of tax cuts and additional family payments in recent years has produced a dual shift in the tax burden: the largest income gains are going to single-earner families and to those at the top of the earnings tree...
...decade of constructing a family-welfare state on this scale, major improvements aren't likely to come from the architects. Labor leader Kim Beazley's support crew is mulling over the implications of the trends in tax and welfare. Beazley is now pitching to the middle; the tax burden, workplace insecurity, high petrol prices and interest-rate rises are the core of his crusade. It's also open season on Howard's welfare mothers...