Word: simpler
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...business owners, would be thrilled if someone just made the tax forms easier to file. As Congress weighs the impact of the controversial tax cuts proposed by President Bush, TIME's JYOTI THOTTAM asked a group of tax-policy experts to move beyond the current debate and imagine a simpler, more efficient federal tax system. Our Board of Economists--David Bradford of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and New York University School of Law, Philip Jefferson of Swarthmore College, Dan Mitchell of the Heritage Foundation, Trudi Renwick of the Fiscal Policy Institute and Max Sawicky of the Economic...
DAVID BRADFORD: As a Treasury official in the Ford Administration, I became convinced that the way toward a simpler, more transparent system was to base the tax on consumption. The plan we developed would replace the income tax on individuals and corporations. Everything that came into the individual household was taxed, and everything that went out in the form of savings was excluded from tax, with no tax on companies. Since then I have concluded that an indirect approach, with a tax on companies and a graduated tax on individuals, would be easier to implement. The key difference between income...
...class planning. Currently, the registrar controls only 37 percent of the college’s classroom space, while the rest is controlled by the individual departments. If the registrar could assume control of all that space, then reallocating classes to rooms better suited to their size would become much simpler, at no cost to the University or its departments...
...like a mindful meditation." Says marketing exec Jane Berk, who scours Los Angeles swap meets to find additions to her Western-themed collection of completed canvases: "They give you this comfortable feeling. When you are looking at them, you are transported back to Donna Reed time, when things seemed simpler...
...says Gigi M. Garmengia ’06, “but they manage to meld these elements into a complex and powerful force. It’s just good music.” Kasia P. Cieplak von Baldegg ’06, however, takes a simpler point of view: “They’re stylish. You can quote me on that...