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...Ahmed, a respected academic and the head of Bangladesh's chapter of Transparency International, which once ranked the country the most corrupt in the world. "Public funds were being extorted, embezzled, misused in all sorts of ways." Prominent figures in both parties have been charged for crimes ranging from tax fraud to murder; dozens of cases prosecuting politicians on graft are ongoing...
...simple answer to our tax-system chaos is to abolish the IRS and adopt the FairTax. If everyone who stays in America pays for America, there would be no reason to fund bloated federal bureaucracies to pursue tax scofflaws. Every person would pay 23% on every new car, suit, pair of shoes, radio and home. In return, individuals and companies would pay no income tax. With no disincentives for earning more, investment would boom. The stronger dollar would also deflate the price of oil, killing two birds with one stone. John P. Kuchta Jr., Virginia Beach...
...could do a bit of each. Obama is clearly uncomfortable with populist fire-breathing--he does say he wants to hit oil companies with a windfall-profits tax (which might discourage investment in new energy resources and would definitely not do much to help motorists), but that's arguably less pandering than McCain's proposal for a gas-tax holiday, which Obama has outspokenly opposed. And while Obama says he wants to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement and other such pacts, he usually makes a point of defending free trade and globalization in the same breath. This...
...Obama has had to come up with three short-term fixes: a $50 billion fiscal-stimulus program, much of it devoted to extending unemployment insurance beyond the current 26-week limit and helping struggling state governments; an aggressive foreclosure-prevention effort, with $10 billion in funding; and a tax cut for Americans making less than $150,000 a year, to be financed with tax increases on those making more than $200,000 a year. These add up to what you could call the stock Democratic response to tough times. They're not necessarily bad ideas, but they...
...deal with bad reviews (on a website for sex connoisseurs). Her friends tend to be other service pros: bar managers, boutique clerks, concierges. She earns £105,000 (more than $200,000) a year, pays 40% to a snooty female "agent" and exchanges, ahem, services with her tax preparer. (She writes him a check and he gives her cash back, so that she can get a receipt and write off the tax-prep...