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Analyst after analyst has announced that the Brown proposal for a 13 percent flat tax on all earned income and a 13 percent value-added tax would fall most heavily on the poorest segments of the population, and I wanted to know how the Brown Brigade dealt with that fact. After all, soaking the poor would seem to be a problem for a campaign that breathes fire at Privilege and Insiders in the name of the Disempowered and Forgotten...
Since soldiers overthrew Haiti's first freely elected President five months ago, restoring a functioning democracy has not proved easy. Last week, in an attempt to lift the crippling economic embargo imposed on the military-backed government by the Organization of American States, top politicians of the hemisphere's poorest country struck a complex deal at OAS headquarters in Washington...
...first period was probably the poorest performance of the season," Harvard Coach Ronn Tomassoni said, "but we improved in the second and third periods...
...poverty were driving Haitians to flee the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, presumably they would have been escaping for years. In fact, relatively few Haitians fled even during the Duvalier regime--Reagan returned most of them, you can be sure--but thousands are coming...
...Haiti's poorest citizens, the term "quality of life" is a cruel mockery. Since the Sept. 30 military coup that deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and precipitated a hemisphere-wide economic embargo, malnutrition and disease have spread at a rate well beyond the usual disquieting norm. In rural areas, hungry peasant farmers eat the seeds they should be planting. Twenty miles from the capital, immunization programs have been curtailed, a casualty of government efforts to conserve fuel that make refrigeration of vaccines impossible. As a result, children are dying of measles. Yet in the slums, people do not complain...