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Although they are now ostensibly taxed at the same rate as other income, capital gains already get favored treatment in two ways. First, they are only taxed when an investment is sold, unlike interest and dividends, which are taxed every year. An ideal free-market tax system would leave an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Capitalist's Guide to Capital Gains | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

Perhaps because the Chinese are historically indifferent to introspection (as befits a culture where family rather than self is the core of an individual's identity), I never hear a coherent analysis of the Cultural Revolution, an event that so inverted the natural order that parents were shamed, beaten and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

Yet no matter how pleased Gorbachev may be to see a political awakening among the indifferent Soviet citizens, he must recognize that some of their economic demands are potentially threatening. In addition to their attacks on the bureaucracy, the strikers are demanding better food and housing and more consumer goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Revolution Down Below | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

If the U.S. were losing this many people to a killer virus or to a war, there would be a public outcry. Yet more Americans die of gunshot wounds every two years than have died to date of AIDS. Similarly, guns take more American lives in two years than did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 7 Deadly Days | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

Due to inexperience and an incomplete legal system, an already complicated situation was further confused by the avarice and corruption rampant from the highest levels of government down. People were angered by an indifferent bureaucracy, one that was self-selected and self-supervised.

Author: By Mansu Qian, | Title: China's Great Awakening | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

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