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...even these happy consequences would fail to justify the aggregate 6.5 billion hours spent preparing taxes in the United States every year, a clear symptom of excessive red tape. Every citizen should have an option of filing income taxes on a simple form. Sen. Fred Thompson’s ill-fated presidential bid mentioned specifically this necessary change in its policy platform (yes, he had a platform). Following Thompson’s lead, the Giuliani campaign took up this cause. It would be regrettable if these candidates’ mutual call for thorough tax reform fell into oblivion with their...
...estate or tourism, maintaining these foundations of the local economy.The residents of Cape Cod are largely misguided in terms of their ideas for restoring the environment and their attitudes toward a sustainable lifestyle. Throughout the discussions of this project, many politicians and public departments have advocated that Cape Cod citizens act individually to lower their own use of electricity and be more environmentally friendly while they wait for the project to come to fruition.These ideas, however, should not be specific to this location or this historical moment; environmental consciousness should be practiced regardless of financial or temporal details. The overall...
...humiliate China and interfere with Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Games. (Although the relay in London was similarly dogged by protests, the British have not been subject to such specific hostility.) The Paris city council poured oil on the flames by making the Dalai Lama an honorary citizen...
...this is strategy - his appeal has been the promise of a politics of civility (and as a black man, he wants to send low-information signals that he is neither angry nor threatening). But what if, after ABC had enabled the smarmy American-flag-pin question from an "average citizen," Obama had taken on George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson directly, "Why aren't you guys wearing pins? Why isn't Hillary?" Indeed, this was Clinton's strategy in an earlier debate, upbraiding her questioners from MSNBC - and it may have turned the tide in her favor in Ohio and Texas...
...college education is supposed to help you learn to be a responsible adult and a good citizen,” Lewis said. “Ultimately, what universities do is convey civilization from one generation to the next...