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Returning money to people who are already middle-class or higher through a tax cut merely increases the demand for luxury goods, without resolving any of the serious issues that face our country. The past seven years have produced tremendous financial gains. It is now time to use that money on those who need it. The bull market has placed the United States at the top of the financial ladder. Perhaps now, we can turn our attention to those who were left behind...
McCain's unified-field theory has room for issues ranging from voter apathy (people don't bother voting because they believe money runs the show) to abortion (organizations on both sides use the bitter fight for fund raising and don't want to find areas of compromise). He even finds a place for stubbornly local issues such as education. Move against corporate welfare, he says, and you can free up cash to help poor kids attend better schools. He suggests putting an end to $5.4 billion in sugar, ethanol and gas-and-oil subsidies and spending it on a three...
...last week in Goffstown, N.H., a student stood up and accused him of hypocrisy: Why does he take truckloads of money from the communications industry he regulates as chairman of the Commerce Committee? People in the room couldn't hear the question until McCain said, disarmingly, "You'd better use the microphone--I think you've gotten to the hot part." The guy asked if McCain would pledge to accept no money from industries he oversees. "Absolutely not," said McCain. "I'm sorry." He had to take the money, he said, because "I'm fighting against the massive contributions...
Unless that happens, there's a lot more bad news yet to come Gates' way. Jackson still has to issue conclusions of law--expected early next year--in which he'll use these facts to decide if Microsoft used its monopoly power to violate the antitrust laws. Assuming he says yea--a near certainty considering Friday's findings--he can impose a remedy as far-reaching as the total dismemberment of the Gates empire. And more potential bad news: these findings of fact could be used by a host of competitors to bring their own civil antitrust actions against Microsoft...
Americans may not follow the logic. Yet Abdi's words are more encouraging than the all-too-familiar ones scrawled across the wall of the former U.S. embassy. The pine-shaded, 27-acre compound has been occupied since the early '80s by Revolutionary Guards, who use part of it as a high school. Next to a mural of the Statue of Liberty, styled as a ghoulish skeleton, is the freshly painted warning: WE WILL MAKE AMERICA FACE A SEVERE DEFEAT...