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Section leaders encourage students to object to Rawls' scheme on the grounds that it unwisely compromises efficiency for the sake of equity. It is true that a Rawlsian society does focus on the least well-off and contends that income differentials must be justified. But all the Difference Principle asks...
IN retrospect, the coup could have had three outcomes. If Bush had actively supported the coup, the plotters might have succeeded. But the improvement for the people of Panama would have been marginal at best; replace despot Manuel Noriega with would-be despot Moises Giroldi, a career military man with...
Various support programs for the middle and upper classes are also humming along nicely. Large-scale farmers and well-to-do retirees still enjoy federal largesse, as do oil companies and people earning more than $200,000 (whose income is taxed at a 28% marginal rate, while a working couple...
RAISING THE TOP BRACKET. Right now the top marginal tax rate rises to 33% for people earning roughly $50,000 to $200,000, then falls back down to 28%. It's hard to argue that this is fair, though I've loved every minute of it. If the top marginal...
Even for the U.S. Congress, it is difficult to ignore the obvious: American families need help with child care, and they need it badly. Half of all women with preschool children now work outside the home, in contrast to 29% in 1971. Long waiting lists at child-care centers are...