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Proposition 2--in some form--is one such refinement that merits additional investigation. Now, families who rent out their houses while they go abroad have a hard time reclaiming them when they return--because the rent is controlled. Proposition 2 solves the problem by exempting private home rentals from rent control altogether, but a more equitable arrangement could allow greater flexibility for families who wish to reclaim their homes...
Hardly any time elapses between the onset of a political scandal in Washington and the search for the smoking gun. No one is culpable until such explicit proof is found, and it hardly ever is: the cagey Washington player wipes off his fingerprints and heaves the weapon into the river...
...What's wrong with this," DeConcini demanded, "if they're willing to clean up their act?" Replied the agent: "This is a ticking time bomb...
...current tax system discriminates against capital gains in one way: it ignores inflation. If a stock has doubled during a time when the general price level has also doubled, the real profit is zero, but you'll pay a capital- gains tax anyway when you sell. Of course, the same is true of interest -- an 8% return on a money-market fund at a time of 5% inflation is really only 3% -- but no one is proposing to do anything about that. Furthermore, no one is proposing to limit the deduction for interest paid. In a world with no taxes...
...problem of crack abuse among the affluent is especially disturbing because it comes at a time when the middle class seemed to be weaning itself from recreational drugs. Between 1985 and 1988, the number of casual drug users in the U.S. dropped from 23 million to 14.5 million, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. But according to another federal study, the number of Americans using crack cocaine at least once a week increased by one- third during that period, from under 650,000 to more than 860,000. "The poor people in the ghetto aren't buying...