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...previous occasions, Kies said, the IRS has reviewed the program and set rules for claiming the credit. "How many times do you get to do this?" Kies asks. "Good tax administration says that if the service has set up a series of rules and taxpayers adhere to them, they ought to be able to rely on that. And Congress, if they don't like what is happening, should come back and amend the statute." At the same time, Kies acknowledges the importance of the tax break. "People only do this because of the tax credit." In short, when it ends...
...month the Washington Post published an op-ed piece by Simpson opposing the amendment. Francis is careful to note that Bush hasn't come out in favor of it, though the President has said, vaguely, "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman, and I believe we ought to codify that one way or the other...
...wanted a bar—which ought to be part of a university, which the Faculty Club has not had for many years” Cuomo said...
...same socioeconomic position in life. Just because all Americans are entitled to identical resources does not mean that all should be given those resources. For American happiness cannot be weighed on a collective, utilitarian scale: the government has no right to decide at what level of comfort each individual ought to live. Instead, it grants us the individual rights demanded by “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” and we are each free to follow our individual beliefs to any extent that we want to, provided that we do not actively harm anyone else...
...many of us, these four years, bookended by high school overachievement and grueling ascents to professional success, will be the only significant span of time when we aren’t bound to impress anybody. We ought not to squander it. Straight out hedonism is seldom advisable—but a lack of self-consciousness is. When George Plimpton ’48 died last week, obituaries didn’t mention his GPA, or the brilliance of his pronouncements in section. They did include a description of his disrupting a Lexington ceremony honoring Paul Revere’s ride...