Word: pay
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JUST like a welfare program, this deduction represents a cost to the government that the rest of us pay for through higher taxes. Unlike welfare programs, however, the benefits of this handout go to people who don't need them...
...small step towards preserving our national resources. A University poster drive addressing environmental concerns would also help. Why must the Harvard community only address the most urgent and popular of problems? All I'm asking is that we look beyond the trendy environmental issues of the day and pay some attention to the environment as a whole. A little foresight can go a long way! Jason Kaufman...
...scapegoat the enemy. Misogyny, with its unmitigated assertion of superiority and justification of violence, is widespread--witness the incidence of rape as an act of war, the harassment of servicewomen within the forces, and the exclusion of women from combat positions that give access to higher rank and higher pay. Classism is blatant in the rank system and in the economic backgrounds of people who fill those ranks. Homophobia is only one example of oppressive forces that are at work in the military. Even if the exclusionary policy were changed tomorrow, the underlying tensions and hatreds inherent in the system...
...Without public hearings, without a decent interval of time for the American people to digest it... the House leadership railroaded it through," complained consumer advocate Ralph Nader, who opposes congressional pay increases...
Bush, who has been seeking for months to increase salaries for his top aides and for federal judges, cleared the way for House action this week. By giving his blessing to the package, he made it more difficult for Democrats or Republicans to use pay as a partisan issue...