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...whether it was the fellow behind the tree. Bush Administration officials floated the idea that they might consider raising the tiny tax on stock and bond transactions -- one-third of 1% -- to help erase the deficit. The leak looked serious because security-transfer taxes are easy to collect, politically painless and potentially lucrative...
...soon as the line on the heart monitor went flat, Kevorkian called the police. Though he claims he never wanted publicity, he took center stage last week in a media barrage that ricocheted from Crossfire to Nightline, Good Morning America to Geraldo. Describing his device as "humane, dignified and painless" -- and his critics as "brainwashed ethicists" or "religious nuts" -- Kevorkian insisted that he wanted only to help patients in distress. "My biggest enemies," he says, "are the medical organizations because the independent doctors tell me they are behind me, but they can't speak...
Obviously, the move from big and bungling to small and snappy will not be painless. Even those Kombinate most likely to survive the rigors of a free market, such as optics manufacturer Zeiss-Ikon Jena, will have to cut their bloated payrolls. Officials in Bonn have estimated that the ranks of the East German jobless will grow from 26,000 today to an estimated 2 million (out of a work force of 8 million) by next year...
...problem set's figures are exaggerated, of course, but Glick's alternative seems to miss the point completely. In an economic system where redistribution was easy and painless, it would be a straightforward matter to forbid any inequality whatsoever. It's precisely because redistribution does require trade-offs that Rawls' theory needs the Difference Principle at all, as a democratic check on the inequalities which no economic system can do without...
...confession would be a relatively painless gesture for the USSR and a matter of national pride for the Poles...