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...continue to provide a spectrum of programming to ensure something for everyone. If some people switch off, no matter. "The notion that you shouldn't pay for something if you don't use it is uncivilized," says Attenborough. It's no different, he adds, than having some of his tax money spent on, say, a public swimming pool or library "even though I don't use either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad News at the BBC | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...offer of a job that could not be filled by an E.U. citizen. And to actually receive the card, they would probably have to work in a single E.U. member state for at least two years. Once granted, the Blue Card would entitle the hold to the same tax benefits, social assistance and payment of pensions as E.U. nationals when moving to another country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Green Light for Europe's Blue Card | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...than being a professor, even one being discussed in the blogosphere, but that’s a mere quibble. My gripe is that I couldn’t quite figure out why this story was written. The gist was that bloggers were complaining about Bush’s 2003 tax cuts and the way Mankiw’s views had apparently changed (against tax cuts before he worked for Bush, pro-cuts once he did). Mankiw, meanwhile, said he wasn’t actually working for Bush when the tax cuts were adopted, and offered a defense of his shifting...

Author: By Michael Kolber | Title: Ombudsman: Some Notes from Summer Crimson | 10/23/2007 | See Source »

...pundits are prepared to write off the P.M. just yet - or the political acumen that has helped make the conservatives seem the country's natural party of government. A confident-looking Howard launched the final campaign of his 33-year career with a bang, announcing a $34 billion tax-cut bounty - the result, he said, of the sound economic management that has brought the nation unprecedented prosperity and near-full employment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australian Spotlight | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...issue: Is building roads one of those things, like trade policy, that only the Federal Government should steer, or is there a better way? Forty-five percent of the money spent on American roads comes to the states from the Federal Government, but Congress hasn't raised the gas tax, its main source of highway funds, since 1993. And that's just fine by people who find the free market efficient and earmark-free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Really Owns the Roads? | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

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