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...Houghton, one of the wealthiest members of Congress, surprised political pundits by deciding to run for a seventh term this year. He says he is set to do battle over the upcoming re-districting that threatens to shunt off his beloved town of Corning to such uncaring districts like Rochester or Buffalo...
...right amount, and it doesn't make a difference if it's equity in your home or whether it's cash in the bank. That's what you get to keep. And that would be fairer and simpler, and the poorest people would be treated the same as the wealthiest people. But as it is now, the worse off you are, the worse you're treated...
...would feel it hard to approve some beautiful new building when somebody working in it is making $8 to $9 an hour," Braude says. "It's hard to accept the notion that the city in which they live and prosper is able to do this and the wealthiest university in the world...
Second, poverty is central to the problem. Four billion of the planet's 6 billion people face deprivation inconceivable to the wealthiest 1 billion. To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that the bottom two-thirds of humanity will strive to improve their lot. As they demand adequate heat and food, not to mention cars and CD players, humanity's environmental footprint will grow. Our challenge is to accommodate this mass ascent from poverty without wrecking the natural systems that make life possible...
...clearly a sprawling tax cut. The fact that the Democratic alternative was conditioned on the development of a long-term plan to address debt reduction, Social Security and Medicare indicates that there are better uses for federal money than a large, regressive tax cut that mainly benefits the wealthiest 30 percent of married couples, many of whom are not subject to the marriage penalty in the first place. Those considering proposing to their loved ones today will just have to wait for reasonable tax relief...