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...should flood control be paid for? States get 50% of the tax revenues paid to the Federal Government from oil and gas produced on federally owned land. States justify that by arguing that the energy production puts strains on their infrastructure and environment. Louisiana gets no share of the tax revenue from the oil and gas production on the outer continental shelf. Yet that production puts an infinitely greater burden on it than energy production from other federal territory puts on any other state. If we treat Louisiana the same as other states and give it the same share...
...Alzheimer’s and spinal cord injuries, Eli Broad said at the press conference. Broad also said he hopes the institute will serve as a catalyst in the economy of the biotech industry, “that it will foster the creation of jobs and encourage a robust tax base and have a far-reaching and long-lasting economic impact,” he said. Although the Harvard-MIT Broad Institute, created in 2004, also states as its mission finding treatment and cures for various diseases including diabetes and mental illnesses, officials say there will be little overlap between...
...Connell ’09, who nevertheless said “I thought it was interesting.” While the president spent much of the two-hour event staring into the audience, Summers occasionally prodded the scholars to a more aggressive debate on issues of tax policy, budget deficits, and globalization. Summers urged the economists, who kept returning to nuanced policy discussions, to come up with more practical political advice. Referring to Flint, Mich., where workers’ jobs are being outsourced, he challenged the academics to come up with a realistic suggestion for the Buick-city mayor...
...living on the riverfront-mixed with single-family housing-means the population of pre-Katrina New Orleans could fit on about half the land it covers now, according to Tulane School of Architecture dean Reed Kroloff. He notes that Washington, D.C., quickly turned around its inner core by offering tax incentives and other inducements for people to return. Inner New Orleans is ripe for a similar rebirth: It has the highest number of blighted and derelict houses-over 30,000-that could bring homeowners and developers back to neighborhoods like Treme, a rundown version of Uptown. "New Orleans has many...
...prices are the same—some of your numbers were with tax and some were without,” she wrote...