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...more conventional progressive system that taxes the rich at higher rates than the less well-off. "Our system is too simple," he says. "We have too much inequality." Arguing that rural areas, old people and young families have lost out, he recently began calling for massive wage increases for all. Savisaar's reformist opponents, including those in the same coalition government, denounce his call as irresponsible demagoguery; they worry about Estonian competitiveness being harmed if wages outstrip productivity. The polarization grew particularly acute in the run-up to the recent presidential election, a bruising contest between the incumbent Arnold...
...published by the national statistics office last month. "If we keep going like this," Raasuke worries, "we'll hit a wall in the next 18 to 24 months." There's still a lot of catching up to do. Productivity remains below the E.U. average, as does the average monthly wage of $650. "We're just halfway," says Prime Minister Andrus Ansip, whose aim is for Estonia to become one of the five wealthiest E.U. nations on a per-capita basis in the next 15 years. He heads a different party from that of Economics Minister Savisaar and doesn...
...part of a battle between a moral democracy and terrorist organizations, and the way the international community treats the aftermath of this war and the disarmament of Hezbollah will have implications throughout and well beyond the Middle East. Relying exclusively on Israel, which lacks the international support necessary to wage a unilateral war on Hezbollah, would be perilous.Unfortunately, the UN coalition is evading the central issue of disarming Hezbollah. UN Resolution 1701 calls for the disarmament of Hezbollah without identifying those to carry it out. UN forces are already expressing confusion and misunderstanding concerning their mission in Lebanon. Currently, they...
...Supported by organized labor, Braley has campaigned on raising the minimum wage, fair trade issues, opposing Republican efforts to privatize Social Security and reforming the Medicare prescription drug program. Whalen has emphasized reducing wasteful government spending and government intrusion that hampers free enterprise. He also supports private sector solutions, a modified flat tax system to help small businesses and stimulate economic growth, "consumer-driven" health care reform, tort reform and permanent extension of federal income tax cuts...
...vote there in 2004, even while Bush and Kerry were split about evenly. And over the last few months, she's tried to reassure voters of her centrist views, by voting for and bragging about her support of embryonic stem cell research and raising the minimum wage, which most of the House Republican leadership opposed. Of course, on almost all the big issues, starting with the Iraq War, Pryce has supported Bush, and that's what Kilroy is hoping can sink the seven-term incumbent...