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...sending all taxpayers a tax rebate going to get us to do what the government wants us to do and spend more? Is the current plan optimally designed to achieve the government??€™s goals? Is sending people a tax rebate the best way to fuel the economy...
...Sheehan earned The New York Times a Pulitzer Prize for his 1971 expos̩ of the Pentagon Papers, a secret report on the U.S. government??۪s policies in Vietnam...
...less optimistic story. Improvement in India has been in pockets, leaving huge numbers of people both invisible and vulnerable. Until recently, the government tolerated civil society, human rights defenders and non-governmental organizations that are often the only voice for India’s otherwise disenfranchised groups. But the government??€™s attitude towards these groups is rapidly changing. Largely unnoticed amid stories of silicon valleys, double-digit growth rates, and foreign direct investment is the darker side of Indian development: the government??€™s growing willingness to silence dissent and restrict basic freedoms...
...handle. Perhaps this proposal would have been more amenable if the money taken by the state went directly to struggling non-profit organizations around the Commonwealth or other salutary areas. The fact that this revenue mechanism would have only been one of many recent ploys to help the government??€™s economic problems (like casinos are) then the justification loses all merit. Universities across the country, regardless of endowment size, should not be taxed. Universities already are boons to the economy: Harvard alone is the number one employer in Cambridge, and schools produce thousands of graduates who are educated...
...most notably in South Carolina in which blacks represented 55 percent of voters but only 30 percent of the population—the reality of median voter politics dictates that the pronounced level of interest blacks are taking in politics will have an effect on their economic outcomes and government??€™s attention to black issues...