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...mortgage-interest deductions has a certain appeal. For starters, it's only one part of a program that would reform the tax code without changing the burden on the average American. It would raise some taxes only as much as it cuts others. The real target is the alternative minimum tax (AMT), designed years ago to prevent millionaires from avoiding tax, but now increasingly encroaching upon the middle class. Next year the AMT will raise the burden of 21 million taxpayers earning as little as $75,000. But to replace the $1.2 trillion that the tax would bring in over...
...bringing down all the walls of suspicion, hatred, prejudices vis-a-vis Egypt. Arafat is not in a position to do it because he is not in control of the people in the territories. His influence is limited to the members of his organization. Because of that we need minimum security assurances. Still, I believe that we have passed the point of no return. ARAFAT: Everything comes at the right time. When I started with my revolution, everything was destroyed. We said then that we wanted to live peacefully with the Jews. Some of the Arabs said we were traitors...
...synagogues, nonprofits and community and civic groups, which may be looking for some humor to liven up a function or a meeting. They are more likely to be open to a baby-boomer comedian--as long as expletives are deleted and mentions of sexual anatomy are kept to a minimum...
...weeks ago, a simple internet post shocked me into a new way of looking at this discussion. The post, which originated with Arin Dube, a Berkeley economist who was involved in the 2001 Harvard living-wage movement, was about New Orleans. In 2001, New Orleans overwhelmingly passed a $1 minimum wage increase in a popular referendum. In a shocking bit of judicial activism, the State Supreme Court ruled that the city had no right to regulate wages. The court struck down the new wage law, dropping the wages of many of the poor city’s poorest citizens...
Dube’s post, though not a fully-realized research report, suggests that the increased minimum wage—more than $2,000 per year for each wage earner working full time—could have made the difference for many of the poor New Orleans residents who were unable to flee Hurricane Katrina. Imagine. What if just 100 people would have left New Orleans if they had had a few thousand more dollars to spend on transportation and hotel rooms? How many people lost their lives because the Louisiana Supreme Court didn’t think New Orleans...