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...this administration asks people to do other than shopping after September 11 and joining in the war on terror is to ask them to join in a tax cut,” Kerry said...
...While he steals from the Children’s Defense Fund, Bush refuses to fund [social programs] because he wants to give the tax cut,” Kerry said...
...Back in the capital city, other pillars of the Thaksinomics miracle may be weakening as well. Aggressive lending policies by Thailand's state-owned banks, together with tax breaks to developers, have fueled a Bangkok real estate boom among Thai buyers. But some foreign investors who rushed into Thailand to snap up foreclosed properties after the 1997 crash are now selling, convinced that the market has topped. "Three years ago we had properties on our books that no one would touch," says a Bangkok-based real estate investor. "Now we are getting offers you wouldn't believe...
...couples are denied the right to make decisions on a partner’s behalf in cases of medical emergencies, the right to care for a partner who is seriously ill while maintaining career benefits, the right hold property equally and the right to family-related Social security benefits, tax benefits, and other important privileges. By denying equal access to the institution of marriage, the government discriminates against BGLT people and denies them benefits afforded without question to heterosexual individuals...
...definition of marriage is hardly under assault. Those individuals ostensibly threatening it only want fairness under the law—including the social security benefits, hospital visitation rights, equal tax benefits and other privileges of marriage that heterosexual partners enjoy. The religious right who peddle such alarmist lies would have you believe that if marriage were open to homosexual unions, scores of men across America would divorce their wives—and vice versa. The Bush administration’s proclamation is an embarrassing piece of partisan rhetoric, demonstrating nothing except that Bush’s marriage to the extreme...