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...G.O.P. Convention. Now Republicans have a defector of their own to worry about: Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island's moderate G.O.P. Senator, who told home-state reporters two weeks ago that he probably won't vote for Bush in November. The Senator has opposed the President on such issues as tax cuts, the decision to go to war in Iraq and Bush's refusal to press for renewal of the assault-weapons ban. "We have so many differences," Chafee told TIME, that a vote for Bush is "very difficult to justify." Instead, Chafee says he will write in the name...
...about. The median person in the U.S. labor force today has a high school diploma and about one year of post-high school education. That person is going to have a job, but how productive and how highly compensated is that job going to be? Maybe we could have tax cuts for less skilled Americans...
MANN: Or an income tax credit...
...subsidy-supported plan to rival the new Boeing 7E7, the fuel-efficient, long-haul plane that will carry between 200 and 300 passengers. The European Commission accuses Washington of hypocrisy. It insists that not only will the 7E7 benefit from subsidies in the form of a reduced state sales tax, but Japanese and Italian governments are subsidizing their own companies with Boeing subcontracts for the new plane. Some Europeans find the timing of the U.S. challenge suspect. "Is it just a coincidence that the WTO complaint came between two national debates when President Bush is falling in the polls?" ponders...
...probably too far down the opposite path to turn back, she says, "but I wish we'd never gone that way." Parents argue that because they save the public thousands of dollars a year per child by opting for private education, they're entitled to a return on their taxes in the form of moderately generous government grants to private schools. But this argument, says Greens spokesman Jon Edwards, indicates a misunderstanding of the purpose of tax, which governments should redistribute for the good of the community - "not to make personalized refunds that service our choices." Some of the schools...