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...home, though, they're grumbling. Alex, a small businessman who refused to give his last name, says he envies the freedom people have "to make money and live" in Ukraine. "They don't have to pay bribes now, they are no longer afraid of the police, fire inspectors, tax officials and other extortionists," he says. Tanya Trupsh, 38, a former television journalist, quit her job when private stations lost their independence. "You're free to say whatever you please," she says, "as long as you don't say it in public." Sometimes it's not enough to keep things private...
...federal government has “failed miserably” in supporting the nation’s civic infrastructure. “We have failed, especially in our cities,” he said. “We even see Congress—in the name of preserving tax breaks for the investor class—voting on a $50 billion package of cuts in child care, in food stamps, in medical coverage for the poor and the elderly, in student aid, cuts that will hit the very people whose eloquent pleas for help gripped the nation and moved...
Aguero adds that “being gay is part of who I am as a person and it in no way interferes or changes the political and social views I hold. How does being gay relate to what I think about tax credits? Why does my sexual orientation have to determine how I feel about the death penalty...
...cowering before the electorate. The party has been in power for 12 years and is now asking for a rare fifth consecutive mandate. The Liberal brand is also suffering because of the lingering stench of the so-called sponsorship scandal, in which a federal program was misused to funnel tax dollars to Liberal-friendly advertising firms-some of whom redirected cash into Liberal coffers in Quebec...
...kind of day-worker center that the Minutemen target is an unusual bureaucratic creation made possible by loopholes in the immigration and tax codes. Cities with big illegal-immigrant populations have been setting up such centers lately to lend some organization to what had been an underground marketplace. At the centers, laborers can drop in and earn from $7 to $10 an hour doing jobs such as construction and landscaping. The law does not require the day-labor centers to check the legal status of workers. It allows employers to hire them without informing federal and state agencies...