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...outlines of such a budget can be found at AmericanSolutions.com. Our 12 American Solutions for Jobs and Prosperity include creating a temporary new tax credit to offset 50% of the payroll tax (helping both workers and small businesses), cutting the business tax rate to 12.5% to match Ireland's, and reducing the 25% marginal income tax rate to 15%, effectively establishing a flat tax rate of 15% for almost 9 out of 10 American workers. These steps would put more money into the hands of American businesses and consumers faster than any stimulus plan that has to disburse money through...
...feet of." Thus the anguished words of Kate Carroll, widow of police officer Stephen Carroll, who was murdered on March 9 in what appears to be a revival of the political violence that killed some 3,500 civilians, soldiers, police and paramilitaries over three decades in Northern Ireland...
...Until the shooting of Officer Carroll - as well as the double slaying at an Antrim barracks two nights earlier of British soldiers Sapper Mark Quinsey and Sapper Patrick Azimkar - it appeared that Northern Ireland's lengthy peace process had succeeded in ending the violent conflict known locally as the Troubles. Carroll was the first police officer to be killed by Northern Irish terrorists in over a decade. "I had begun to take the process for granted and to regard the peace as irreversible," says Lord Bew, professor of Irish politics at Queen's University Belfast and a legislator in Britain...
...Orde to request the support of the British Army's Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR) in the PSNI's intelligence-gathering operations. Sinn Fein - traditionally hostile to any ramp-up of British security forces - reacted with anger. Less than a week before the murder of the soldiers in Antrim, Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness described the use of these special forces as "a major threat...
...party has switched gears. Sinn Fein's Assembly member for Craigavon, John O'Dowd, condemned last night's killing as "wrong and counter productive". With Northern Ireland's largest parties all united in condemnation of the attacks and its citizens overwhelmingly opposed to a return to violence, it's unlikely that the dissidents will seriously undermine the democratic institutions their actions are designed to destabilize. But even if the peace process is intact, the peace of Northern Ireland's streets has been seriously disrupted...