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...quite appropriate and human-and long past time-for either Clinton or Obama to push back, "Harry, do you think we'd have food stamps or Medicaid without the Democratic Party? Didn't you notice how life improved for the working poor after President Clinton passed the earned income tax credit? Tonight, when you're sipping Chablis in your New York City apartment, there will be thousands sleeping on cots in shelters. We're trying to help them. Your anger doesn't help...
...Sunday, the market offers real steals on designer-label garments with often imperceptible flaws. While Mauritius hardly rivals shopping magnets such as Hong Kong or Dubai, it's growing. The island's government recently announced that it wants to turn Mauritius into a duty-free destination by dropping tax on clothes sold locally. The scheme, which will be implemented over the next four years, has already inspired plans for new shopping malls and factory outlets, to be built in what are now sugarcane fields. There will certainly be some sweet deals...
...according to Professor of Law Janet Halley, FAIR’s argument could conceivably undermine, for example, the high court’s 1983 decision in Bob Jones University v. U.S., which held that the federal government could deny tax-exempt status to a South Carolina college that prohibits interracial dating...
...could spur Koizumi to extend his tenure. But he already appears to be handing tough choices off to his unnamed successor. He has avoided discussing any substantial reforms beyond postal privatization, and while LDP party secretary Tsutomu Takebe has admitted that mounting social-services costs have made a consumption tax hike imminent, Koizumi has committed not to raise them. With tough battles yet to come, University of Kyoto politics professor Terumasa Nakanishi and others believe stepping down as promised may be Koizumi's smartest move?leaving his legacy, if not his agenda, intact...
...this as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to try to reduce poverty and racial inequality, touting more investment in public school construction and housing vouchers. At the same time, they are showing a renewed spirit in fighting the President's proposed Medicaid cuts and a slew of G.O.P. tax reductions that were on the verge of passage. But conservatives could see at least some of their handiwork in the Administration's initial proposals for job-training accounts and private- and parochial-school vouchers--as well as in the President's earlier controversial decision to suspend rules requiring federal contractors...