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...years of grueling labor to start over in a strange land? Life in Fujian is not one of mass starvation or political persecution. But the lure of overseas gold remains great. When his restaurant in England is busy, Little Lin's brother, Big Lin, can make $600 a week, tax free, and despite his underground status, his life is hardly a misery. Big Lin does not know anyone who has been held hostage by a snakehead or enslaved in a factory. Nor has he ever been stopped by the police or threatened with deportation, despite an official 2005 U.K. study...
April may indeed be the cruelest month. Families of college-bound students go hunting for financial aid at the height of tax season, and this year the money crunch is particularly vexing as headline after headline describes schools and lenders playing footsie over federal student loans. In an especially twinge-inducing bit of irony, at the same time that Columbia University is trying to help make higher education more accessible to low-income students--it's set to host a conference that addresses the topic this month--word broke that a financial-aid officer at the school, as well...
...These kinds of changes could be very important for them.” Kevin Gan ’07 said he applied late for the FAFSA because of the complexity of filling out FAFSA. “It was kind of a pain to decode all the tax forms,” Gan said...
...believe we can grow our way out of the coming crisis in entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare or do you think we will have to make true sacrifices for the solvency of our entire nation? Between tax increases and benefit reductions, where do you fall? -Casey Willits from Fayetteville...
Previous campaign reforms have failed not because they lack a magic ingredient, some legislative abracadabra, but because as long as the government wields extensive power to tax, spend, and regulate, interest groups will try to influence its actions. It’s not clear what proportion of campaign contributions are motivated by such rent-seeking (and therefore whether this is really a big problem), but unless we eviscerate the First Amendment or shrink the government, money is here to stay...