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Equality and simplicity are what our tax system desperately needs. The flat tax would be the solution. If the poor would suffer undue hardship under this system, their plight could be lightened with benefits such as Medicaid and food stamps...
...march had been planned as a peaceful demonstration to dramatize the plight of unemployed Brazilians. But as the procession of 1,000 made its way through the streets of Sāo Paulo last week, the mood suddenly turned ugly. Shouting "End the unemployment or we will stop Brazil!" a rampaging mob shattered windows in supermarkets, butcher shops and bakeries, stripping shelves bare of food. Other looters helped themselves to clothing, television sets and even 518 Ibs. of coffee from a delivery van. The rioting continued sporadically, spreading through poor neighborhoods and threatening the busy downtown shopping district. At week...
Levin makes a noble and marginally successful attempt to deal with a somewhat hackneyed subject in a unique and sensitive manner. Instead of focusing on the survivors themselves and their inability to go on living, Simple Truths explores the plight of the descendants of holocaust survivors and how the legacy of guilt destroys their lives as well. Susan Warner, the novel's protagonist, is the daughter of two concentration camp survivors. Her father escaped death by working as a camp physician, a fact which Susan's mother, an embittered and vengeful woman, takes pleasure in tormenting him with. Neither...
...construct a viable society out of an island of former plantations and fit it into an international community characterized by superpower domination and an economic order designed to keep the little guy down. What emerges is a disturbing image of the United States and a valuable insight into the plight or the Third World...
OPEC has never appeared more shaken, more divided. But it is premature to conclude, as many observers are now doing, that OPEC's current plight will somehow become a permanent fixture of the world oil scene. Some of these observers are making serious errors of judgment and analysis. Others are seeking to validate their own research by generating results that fall within the ballpark of prevailing opinion. Still others are drawing long-term conclusions from short-term, cyclical market conditions. All are allowing the wish to father the thought...