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Western diplomats disagree about whether Moscow is apt to cut substantially its $15 million-a-day subsidy to Havana. The handout, after all, is not pure charity, since the Soviet military derives enormous benefits from having a beachhead in the Western hemisphere. In recent months, the Soviets have delivered two advanced MiG-29 fighters to the island. Still, Castro is edgy. For the first time, he suggested publicly in January that the Soviets might abandon him, in which case, he said, Cuba was prepared to live "under a wartime economy." Says Wayne Smith, director of Cuban Studies at the Johns...
Most buyers purchase Street News because they feel more comfortable giving money to a homeless person offering a product than to someone who simply wants a handout. Those who actually read the paper are unlikely to be bowled over by its literary merits. The bulk of the text consists of breezy, opinionated pieces signed by a motley assortment of celebrities and business executives. The most interesting items are the prose and poems penned by homeless contributors...
JUST like a welfare program, this deduction represents a cost to the government that the rest of us pay for through higher taxes. Unlike welfare programs, however, the benefits of this handout go to people who don't need them...
...reform bill, a measure that eliminated dozens of cherished tax breaks altogether, Congress limited T and E deductions to 80 percent of their cost. That is a step in the right direction, but it isn't nearly enough. Wealthy investment bankers do not deserve any government handout...
...wealthy as ours to ensure that no one has to sleep on a grate. Just as surely, it is the height of unfairness to take away housing funds from the poor while maintaining lavish deductions for middle-and upper-class homeowners. Congress should eliminate this $32 billion dollar handout to the wealthy and use that money to provide adequate housing for the truly needy...