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...taken part in," says Aarebrot. And the opposition also seems to be winning support by backing a traditional welfare state. "Market conditions and privatization are not the way to go when we are talking about health, education and care," Stoltenberg said in a recent interview with Aftenposten. Meanwhile, the tax cuts that helped the Prime Minister's Christian People's Party and its conservative partners gain power in 2001 seem to have lost their widespread appeal. Recent polls indicate that the Christian People's Party will gain just 5.6% of the votes compared to 12.4% at the last election. With...
DIED. JUDE WANNISKI, 69, conservative journalist who, as an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal in the 1970s, coined the phrase "supply-side economics" for the theory, later embraced by Ronald Reagan, that tax cuts spur production and growth; of a heart attack; in Morristown, N.J. A tireless publicity hound, he went on to advise G.O.P. candidates and write the economics tome The Way the World Works, prompting fellow conservative George Will to write, "I wish that I were as confident about something as he is of everything...
...serious enforcement will be is another matter, of course. Laws in China have, in the past, been selectively enforced - copying and distributing CDs and DVDs may be technically illegal, but piracy is a thriving business. And the lucrative revenues offered by tobacco taxes - nearly 9 percent of the state's tax income in 2003 - are a tough habit for any government to kick. Public health experts, however, praised the ratification as an important step in lowering China's rising rates of lung cancer and tobacco-related disease. About 1.2 million Chinese die of smoking-related deaths annually and the World...
...campaign, too. Nearly 30% of German voters still say they are undecided, and a televised debate scheduled for Sunday between Merkel and Schr?der could help the telegenic Chancellor. Team Schr?der also intends to step up its attacks on Merkel, in part by focusing on the CDU's plans for tax and health-care reform, which it says will benefit more affluent Germans and disadvantage poorer ones. "We have to make it clear to voters how unjust the CDU's program is," says Andrea Nahles, a leader of the SPD left wing...
...early elections in the first place. Germany's new left-wing alliance, the Linksb?ndnis, is exploiting unhappiness with reform to siphon off crucial support from the SPD. In response, Schr?der announced an increase in benefits for the long-term unemployed in eastern Germany and has agreed to a wealth tax on people earning over ?250,000 a year...