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...clear that this disaster was being harnessed to push through a radical vision of totally unrestricted markets. And Bush didn't make too much of a secret of it when he announced that his idea of reconstructing the Gulf Coast was to turn it into a tax-free, free-enterprise zone...
Catalonia's announcement raised a series of pressing questions. Are governments or businesses the best entities to build wide-area wireless broadband networks? And what technology should those networks employ? Funded by citizens' tax dollars, governments generally look after roads, schools and defense. But telecoms? Haven't most governments been privatizing their fixed-line phone networks over the past 25 years? Why jump back into the same business? Wouldn't state-backed initiatives undermine free-market efforts to build networks and offer wireless services...
...other suggestions included removing the tax break given to those who buy insurance through their employer...
...which is airing this week in Iowa, South Carolina, and Florida, calls Harvard’s decision to invite Khatami to speak on campus a “disgrace” and praises Romney for refusing to provide the former Iranian leader with “VIP treatment at tax payer expense...
...After a full week of campaigning, there were few policy differences between the two candidates on many important issues, including the handling of over 50 million lost pension records, rural economic stagnation and tax reforms. Abe's failure to address these problems cost his party control of Japan's upper house, and yet, like their fallen predecessor, both Fukuda and Aso preferred to highlight their foreign policy differences - Fukuda called for open talks with Japan's neighbors, while the hawkish Aso took a conservative stance on the Yasukuni war shrine, a sore point in Asian relations. Both favored postponing...