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Joshua A. Barro ’05, who is leading the opposition, likens the proposed increase to a tax hike. He says he is concerned with the council’s ability to handle an increased budget, writing in a position paper that the council is “institutionally incapable” of doing...
...weeks ago, the Bush campaign launched a negative television ad that many Democratic consultants thought was pretty clever. It featured ancient, goofy Keystone Kops footage and suggested, not too subtly, that John Kerry was pretty goofy too: he supported a 50-a-gal. gas tax. Leave aside the fact that this was not quite accurate--Kerry's support for the tax was fleeting, theoretical and a decade past--the ad was sharp, different-looking, sort of humorous. The consultants assumed it would cut through the info- smog of political-message mongering, that it would make Kerry seem laughably...
...just wants it to work more fairly. Though corruption allegations against top aides and economic troubles have caused Lula problems at home, he has become the developing world's new spokesman, a pragmatic populist who matches his anti-Yankee bluster with economic sobriety. His successes with pension and tax reforms have made Wall Street want to samba. Lula is often cited as the first leader to apply the social activism cum fiscal realism of Europe's "third way" to places where it is more needed. Brazil, for example, has one of the world's most inequitable distributions of wealth...
Lately Buffett has become more than just a financial wizard. He waxes about the absurdity of cutting taxes for those who least need the money, and he can't figure out the wisdom in abolishing the inheritance tax, even though he probably has more skin in the game than anyone save Bill Gates. The Bushies, tired of his scolding, have tried to portray him as a crotchety Nebraska coot who has lost a step. The reality is that Buffett is simply a capitalist who genuinely believes our species is capable of reciprocal altruism. His number should be retired, his jersey...
...them access to bank credit and investment capital, much as the property-title revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries enriched Western Europe and North America. A limited experiment in Peru in the 1990s proved the idea had merit when it brought in more than $1 billion in new tax revenue. Some 30 heads of state, from Egypt to Mexico, have hired de Soto for similar projects. "I think our time has come," says de Soto. "Four billion people exist outside the market, where angry folks like Osama bin Laden followers lurk...