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...Democrats to argue, correctly, on Sept. 23, 2002, that Bush's pre-emptive invasion of Iraq would be a serious mistake. Now Gore seems liberated, less awkward than he has ever before appeared in public and eager to propose more inconvenient truths?like the need for a tax on fossil fuels. I don't know if he's running for President. Probably not. But he should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Teddy Awards: 2006 | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

...last gives non-Chinese readers some sense of what the fuss is about. Based on three years of reporting in Anhui province, the book documents the myriad ways in which corrupt local cadres keep China's farmers in a state of virtual feudal peonage, enriching themselves while imposing oppressive taxes on the very people the communist revolution was meant to uplift. Some officials practice simple extortion; others resort to embezzlement schemes straight out of Gogol. In the poorest areas, peasants are literally bled dry, forced to sell plasma to pay their tax bills. In other cases, farmers who stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Asian Books of 2006 | 12/16/2006 | See Source »

...perhaps, again, for his being a pro-life conservative, cementing the author’s amazing ignorance on American conservatism) but on what evidence? She gives none, leaving the reader only with well-established facts: McCain was a lonely GOP voice and vote opposing Bush’s tax cuts because they were fiscally irresponsible. He has long opposed pork, and whether the author knows it or not, he was specifically referring to a infamous piece of pork in his reference to an Alaskan “Bridge to Nowhere” shamefully advocated by a fellow GOP senator. Both...

Author: By Nicholas R. Turza | Title: McCain a True Maverick Despite Criticism | 12/15/2006 | See Source »

...enable workers of all ages to adapt to a rapidly evolving economy, the federal government would create tax-protected "personal competitiveness accounts" - "a G.I. Bill for our times," in the words of the report - that could be drawn upon for education and training at any point in life. At birth, the feds would deposit $500 per child into the account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Call to Action for Our Schools | 12/15/2006 | See Source »

...What the article doesn’t answer, and what no other article even attempts to, is what is going to happen to Europe? Regardless of what tinkering one does to tax, education, or welfare systems, countries whose feterility rates stay well below the the replacement fertility rate cannot prosper. I think the United Nations’ World Fertility Report 2003 says it best: “In 14 developed countries, fertility was lower than 1.3 children per woman, an unprecedented low level of fertility in the recorded history of large populations...

Author: By Mark A. Adomanis | Title: The Coming Fall | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

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