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Bequeathed to Harvard by Bernard Berenson, Class of 1887—an art critic as renowned as he was wealthy??these 94,000 square feet of space house the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Study. The villa’s walls are covered in paintings by some of the top names of the Renaissance, pieces that make it the envy of museums worldwide. The facility garners a mention in most guidebooks to the area (though tours are hard to come by, offered only twice a week to no more than 8 people.) The pristinely-tended gardens, hedges perfectly...
...must admit upfront how sickened I was by Duncan M. Currie’s selection (Comment, “A More Progressive Tax Code”, Jan. 31). Was it the use of quotation marks around the words “poor” and “wealthy??? Are these indeed such malleable concepts when we contrast, as Mr. Currie does in his first paragraph, those earning under $30,000 a year with those earning over...
Leading Democrats and their editorial comrades on West 43rd Street might argue, of course, that Bush’s tax cut would still return more money—in total dollars—to “the wealthy?? than it would to “the poor.” Before using this as evidence of an unjust boon to the rich, however, they ought to consider statistics released by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in October...
...availability of new tax shelters, combined with lax enforcement by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), has let the rich and dishonest evade their obligations and increase the burden on the American public. Without drastic reform, tax loopholes and outright evasion will create a vast paid subsidy for the wealthy??or, to put it another way, a huge hidden tax on everyone else...