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...progressive answer to this manipulation? At Harvard, the solution has been to give up on everyday English altogether and speak in intellectualized code: the bigger the word the better! It’s kind of fun, because once you get it you feel like you’re a part of a secret society of the chosen and enlightened. It’s almost like knowing the special handshake of a cool club for progressives. Unfortunately, it’s also crappy politics...
...parallel tax code, launched more than four decades ago. Outraged that 155 wealthy families had used loopholes to avoid paying any federal income tax in 1967, Congress in 1969 enacted the first of a string of laws that led to the AMT and were designed to strip away deductions that enabled the rich to avoid taxes. Today, millions of people must calculate their taxes twice--once the traditional way and once the AMT way--and owe whichever calculation is higher. Among other things, the AMT effectively disallows the standard deduction and child deductions as well as deductions of state...
...regular tax code automatically lifts tax brackets and increases deductions and exemptions each year to reflect the higher cost of living and rising wages over time. Not the AMT. There have been patchwork fixes, but without an inflation adjustment, more middle-class families fall prey each year as their income simply keeps pace with costs...
Everywhere the women were seen last week--in hotels, taxis, corridors of power--Americans applauded their stand against the I.R.A., whose stature at home and abroad has plummeted in the face of the McCartneys' campaign to have Robert's killers arrested. By breaking the code of silence in Northern Ireland that has long surrounded crimes committed by I.R.A. members, the family has galvanized public opinion against the I.R.A., which for the past 35 years has claimed to be defending the Catholics of Northern Ireland from Protestant gunmen. According to a recent poll, nearly half the supporters of Sinn Fein...
...front cover) "It is an unashamed admission that the police are helpless against the power and unity of a huge criminal class which is able to play ducks & drakes with almost every paragraph of the social code of the United States."--Buenos Aires Standard...