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...bill. And this spat over immigration is occuring less than three months after Congressional Republicans ignored the pleas of 150 religious leaders who staged a nonviolent protest against a budget bill that proposed cutting $40 billion from education, health care, and child support for low-income families while giving tax cuts to the rich.For too long Democrats have allowed Republican Christians, who claim to support “life” while advocating capital punishment, to seize the sole authority to dictate what Christians believe. Democrats such as Clinton must not be afraid to speak for the thousands of Christian...
Warner touted his record of tax and education reform and his ability to draw jobs in the growing technology sector to rural parts of the state...
...Thaksin, a telecom tycoon who took office in 2001, has sired plenty of quarrels lately. Since January his critics, centered around Bangkok and the insurgent-plagued southern part of the country, have used the $1.9 billion tax-free sale of his family-owned firm to foreign investors as a rallying cry for demonstrations demanding change. Their noisy campaign prompted Thaksin to dissolve parliament and call snap elections, confident that his party machine would deliver the necessary votes on Apr 2. It did - over 50% of Thai voters kept the faith with the ruling Thai Rak Thai party, especially...
...Still, many luxury-goods retailers predict that their India business will develop relatively slowly compared with their business in other emerging markets such as China. One major barrier is India's stiff tariffs on high-end imports?the tax on imported watches, for example, is 50%. Joseph Wan, Group Chief Executive for Harvey Nichols, the London-based retailer, says India's recent economic growth and indications that New Delhi is prepared to liberalize its markets are encouraging, but adds that prime real estate in Indian cities is too expensive and that tariffs are prohibitively steep. "Harvey Nichols caters...
...just me. He's done it before, against all his political enemies, Democrats or Republicans. It is outrageous. It has had a direct impact on the future of this state and the future of the Houston-Galveston area. When you have the Majority Leader that passed the sales-tax deductibility in Texas, that got Texas 92 cents for every dollar of highway money [sent to Washington], which is $788 million more a year than what they'd been doing, when he has been able to fully fund NASA against all comers, including the Senate. And I could...