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...reform of our economy must begin, alas, with taxes. The fact that America bears a smaller tax burden than other developed countries is not conclusive: perhaps the others are doing it wrong. Still, as a nation we are reluctant to pay for what we -- the sum of all our various constituencies and interest groups -- want. At the same time, we don't get adequate value for the taxes we do pay. So tax increases must be balanced by severe cuts in expenditures, especially entitlements for the better off, plus farm and other subsidies. But a mere split-the-difference deal...
...press for publishing the work in its current form. The story of how the book came to be, for many, reads as follows: A murder is comitted. A family greives. A friend grieves, investigates, writes and sells 400 pages of recollected family conversations, letters and grief for a sizeable sum...
Overall, the team's four-man scoring sum was a 643, totalling the rounds of Kinkaid, Foster, Dave Miller and freshman Lou Body. Overall winner Central Connecticut State carded...
...production quotas were assigned to achieve a price of $21. That's what our "friends" the "moderates" wanted. Saddam wanted $25. The difference between $10 oil and $21 oil means, for the U.S., an extra $33 billion a year for oil imports. That doesn't even count an equal sum paid to domestic producers, or the dampening effect on the economy...
Only it isn't the newcomers who are suffering most. Hundreds of low-salaried Israelis, many of them young army veterans, have been turned out of their homes in favor of newcomers who are given a lump-sum payment of $11,000 for rent and other expenses. Landlords, realizing new immigrants have the cash, double and triple prices and require a full year's payment in advance. Poor Israeli families can not compete. "The landlords prefer the Soviet immigrants," says Yossi Hurja, 27, who was forced to move when his rent was raised from $350 to $420 a month...