Word: cato
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...lawsuit in the first place. The message carried by Carver embodies a warning that every presidential hopeful would do well to heed. Something has come unfastened in the West, and everybody has guns. "By circling the wagons, they see it's just them against the world," says the Cato Institute's Hess. He fears, he says, that the owner of some marginal ranch pushed to the brink by changing rules may turn desperate. "Someone's going to carry a gun, someone's going to shoot, someone's going to bomb a Forest Service office," he says. "And God knows what...
Managed competition and managed care are not the only ways to bring free-market discipline into Medicare. In fact, by retaining the basic principle of insurance, they preserve health care as a salad bar where you can eat as much as you want at no extra cost. The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, wants to go further: arrange it so that people pay for most normal medical expenses out of their own pockets. Cato would gradually increase Medicare's deductibles and copayments--currently $716 for the first 60 days of a hospital stay, and $100 a year plus...
...sign of its desperation and imminent collapse. "When you get to the point where you have government snooping in people's drawers and talking to neighbors, you know that something has gone desperately wrong with the system," says Stephen Moore, a budget expert at the libertarian Cato Institute. Representative Bill Archer of Texas, chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, observes that the irs stirs more resentment than ever because "it has been given more power, more penalties." All of which only furthers his cause of radical reform. "Any discontent with the current income-tax system," he says...
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Take, for example, the 1992 killing of seven year-old Gavin Cato in Crown Heights. The crime was a traffic accident; a car driven by a Hasidic Jew spun out of control, running onto the sidewalk and killing Cato, who was Black. Blacks then rioted for three days in Crown Heights. After the unrest had been quelled, Sharpton planned a protest march through Crown Heights, much to the dismay of Mayor David Dinkins, who feared that the demonstration would erupt into another riot. The rally proceeded without incident, primarily because the marchers were outnumbered by police officers. Sharpton made...