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...fall into this category: when he doesn't want to veto a law, he just asserts that it doesn't apply to him. Biotech entrepreneur Paul Abrams proposes that if the law funding embryonic stem cell research survives a Bush veto, Congress should allow for another little box on tax returns letting people check off whether they agree for their tax dollars to be used for research. "This mechanism would provide active acknowledgement of people's deeply held views," he argues, "without compromising hESC research and development...
...surface these appear like classic democratic efforts to respect the rights and deeply held principles of minorities. But people feel just as deeply about gun control and abortion and global warming and, of course, war and peace. We can customize our tax returns to reflect the policies we're willing to support and our oaths of office to reflect the laws we're willing to enforce. But at that point democracy as a miraculous system of respectful accommodation shatters...
...This week Hollande promised that in the event of a leftist election sweep, tax cuts passed by the current conservative government would be rolled back in order to start cutting France's enormous debt. Royal promptly begged to differ, noting her presidential platform contained no income tax increases. She argues that France's lofty tax scale already leaves average workers feeling their hard work is being penalized, and raising taxes could slow consumption, a main motor of French economic growth. But as in any good domestic spat, Hollande wasn't going to let his partner have the last word...
...Royal has not gotten this far in the testosterone mosh pit of French politics to accept the rebuke, especially not from a guy with whom she has to share a bathroom. On Friday, she reiterated her promise to refrain from tax hikes and other measures "that discourage working," suggesting instead that the debt may be tackled by stiffening capital gains or corporate profit taxes. Royal then landed Hollande a blow square to the political shorts by tapping party heavyweight Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who contested the primary against her, to lead a study on tax reform. In doing so, Royal...
...self-interested policies. The integrity of this institution rests not just on tallying up its Nobel Prize count, but also in the fair treatment of its workers and in its social and environmental responsibility to the community. The next president should continue initiatives such as payment in lieu of taxes program (PILOT) of 2005, in which Harvard significantly increased its payments to Cambridge for the tax-exempt land it owns. Harvard’s neighborhood respectability is as important as its global prestige and its wealth and reputation oblige it to set just and moral standards...