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...such services as insurance and investment. No less than 80% of the trade across the northern U.S. border is already duty free. Trade experts estimate that totally free trade would boost the roughly $416 billion Canadian economy by about 3% to 8% within five to ten years. The $4 trillion U.S. economy would gain proportionately less...
...time Congress passed a comprehensive highway bill, the debate was dominated by scare talk of decaying roads and crumbling bridges, complete with suggestions that the nation's transportation system would soon go the way of New York City's abandoned West Side Highway. Experts bandied around figures like $3 trillion for rebuilding America's decaying infrastructure. In truth, the Interstate Highway System was in trouble. Traffic had far outstripped the projections made when the system was initially planned in the 1950s. And the drive for fuel-efficient automobiles had inadvertently eroded the gasoline-tax revenues that pay for the Highway...
...Chuck never gave a thought to his financial security. Then came the day when, as Chuck describes it, "I wrote out a check for $1000 to my coke dealer, but I forgot to draw a line after the words 'One thousand,' The slimeball just added the words 'million trillion dollars,' and overnight I was ruined...
WASHINGTON--The House of Representatives yesterday approved a $1 trillion Democratic budget that would raise $18 billion in new taxes, slash President Reagan's military buildup and block White House plans for sharp decreases in domestic programs...
...restored nationalism and morale, a necessary pause, to discover that the old problems are still there, only in some ways worse now. The Indian summer was lovely, but the weather turned cold: Provide, provide! That holiday was paid for by more than doubling the national debt, to $2.2 trillion. Time to look for new ideas, time to move beyond the era of self-congratulation and beer-commercial patriotism. America cannot afford stupidity. It costs too much in the world. Education therefore must have a priority, and not just through more money; it needs discipline and imagination. America can no longer...