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DAVID BRADFORD: As a Treasury official in the Ford Administration, I became convinced that the way toward a simpler, more transparent system was to base the tax on consumption. The plan we developed would replace the income tax on individuals and corporations. Everything that came into the individual household was taxed, and everything that went out in the form of savings was excluded from tax, with no tax on companies. Since then I have concluded that an indirect approach, with a tax on companies and a graduated tax on individuals, would be easier to implement. The key difference between income...
...traveling up the vertical shaft that runs along the side of Block E, the high-rise most affected by SARS. The vermin could have contaminated common objects in the block, which could have then infected residents. Investigators are also exploring the possibility that the virus could be spread by household pets, either through infection?one cat in Block E tested positive for the coronavirus?or through indirect contact. On March 24, the kidney patient's brother and his wife were diagnosed with SARS; three days later, families living in apartments five floors directly above and below the brother's apartment...
...next trick, he’ll try to avoid flash-in-the-plan status. Recent history is on his side. The grind of the league season, whose back-to-back doubleheader format subjects Ivy pitching staffs to a mean sort of social Darwinism, has a way of making household names out of no-names. Consider the rags-to-riches story of Chaney Sheffield ’02, last year. A former walk-on, Sheffield was tabbed as a last-minute replacement last April amid a starter crunch not dissimilar to this weekend’s. Once he cracked the rotation...
...those new guys was sophomore Malcolm Howard, who became a household name when he was allegedly assaulted by two Northeastern rowers last month. While both teams have sought to put the incident behind them, it did affect racing yesterday because the school-imposed suspension of the two Husky rowers left Northeastern unable to field a second varsity eight...
...Moments later the translator pointed at two Iraqi men walking into the household and said they are going to take the food away. As the men left the house with the food three heavily armed infantry men walked over to politely convince them to give the food back. But what happens to the girl when the soldiers aren't here to intervene on her behalf...