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...thousand and six may just turn out to be the year of reckoning for the carefree spending of the Bush administration, and federal education spending has assumed the part of the paschal lamb. As tax cuts, increased defense spending, and the enactment of Medicare prescription drug benefits legislation ballooned our national debt during President George W. Bush’s first term in office, it became increasingly clear that our spending habits were unsustainable. Four increases of the national debt ceiling could not stave off the reality that something had to be sacrificed. And with that in mind, the House...
...experiences here, and events on the world stage, have gradually made me realize that I cannot sit on the sidelines taking pictures forever. At some point action, or at least debate, is demanded. In the future when I see people arguing over abortion, the war in Iraq, or tax cuts, I will get involved. Not to persuade them, but to persuade myself that my opinion matters...
...With its analysis of poverty in America and its plea for greater attention to the public sector-housing, police, mass transit, education and welfare-it established clear guideposts for both the New Frontier and the Great Society. Galbraith offered the best summation of its philosophy when he testified against tax reduction before a congressional committee in 1965. 'I AM NOT QUITE SURE WHAT THE ADVANTAGE IS IN HAVING A FEW MORE DOLLARS TO SPEND,' HE SAID, 'IF THE AIR IS TOO DIRTY TO BREATHE, the water too polluted to drink, the streets are filthy and the schools so bad that...
...speak three languages. My late father spoke nine. When he became a naturalized American in midcentury, it never occurred to him to demand of his new and beneficent land that whenever its government had business with him--tax forms, court proceedings, ballot boxes--that it should be required to communicate in French, his best language, rather than English, his last and relatively weakest...
...claimed, which violated “a clause in the Constitution of the United States which requires equal protection of the laws.” And in a letter to The Crimson, William R. Elder ’58 asked, “Is this an attempt to tax the ‘Harvard car’ out of existence by the imposing of heavy fines?” He pointed out that formerly legal parking was outlawed, while Harvard had not stepped up to provide alternate facilities. Elder implored the administration to help “keep wheels under...