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...Undergraduate Council, however, is in a different position. The council has no required expenditures; it is not in the public service business and it is supposed to represent the conscience as well as the opinions of the student body. It has been offered a substantial sum of tainted money, money representing the blood of the Burmese people and the destruction of the environment. The money should be refused...
...Creating a new "G.I. Bill" which would provide a lump sum voucher for $2500 for continuing college education...
Like other IPO millionaires, Andreessen is careful to point out how difficult it would be for him to sell his stock. "You can't just sum up the total value of the stock and say that that's actually what somebody has in his pocket," he says. "There are a lot of both legal and practical restrictions on what actually happens to the money." Under the provisions of most IPOs, officers and executives who have stock or stock options cannot begin selling shares for several months. In addition, the sec places strict limits on the number of shares that officers...
Offset with the hyperreality of the homeless characters in the audience (several audience members drew close their valuables or else took out change to give the actors, assuming they were authentic), the sum effect is one of deranged imbalance. This is especially true when a jazz band takes the stage and the homeless pair perform a choreographed dance and pretend to be playing along on tubes shaped like saxophones and guitars. The scene is perplexing, pointless, and childishly extreme...
Despite Forbes' claims to the contrary, his flat tax proposal would increase the budget deficit. Even he admits that his proposal could cost the government as much as $200 billion a year in revenues. Given such a sum and prior experience with the Reagan era tax cuts, Forbes' claim that economic growth would more than compensate for the lost revenue cannot be taken seriously. The Reagan-era tax cuts generated only enough additional revenue through the supply-side to offset a third of the lost revenues. Forbes' proposal is unlikely to do three times as well...