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...taxpayers would be removed entirely from the income tax rolls, thanks in large part to the President’s increase of the child tax credit. In other words, the Bush proposal would ensure that nearly 4 million underprivileged Americans no longer have to pay any income taxes. Percentage-wise, those in the “0-$30,000” income bracket would get, on average, a 17 percent tax reduction, while those in the “$200,000-plus” bracket would get a 11.2 percent reduction...
...President is wise to address the critical state of the domestic economy. Even with a war looming abroad, the administration must maintain concern for the financial problems here at home. But unless he can produce an economic strategy that is more ecconomically feasible and better helps the poor, the President’s efforts could quite possibly do the country more harm than good...
...proposal to eliminate dividend taxes. The president’s latest Reaganesque tax scheme has massive benefits for wealthiest Americans who own stock outside of tax-protected retirement funds. This proposal is so far out of step with mainstream public opinion that even Republican legislators are questioning how wise the president’s plan is. But, as the pattern predicts, the debate on Capitol Hill is not about whether cutting taxes makes any sense, but about how much money to drain away from the federal budget. The Democrats are once again playing into Bush’s hands, guaranteeing...
...Dean Avery has provided profoundly wise advice both to women students and to the Faculty and the College administration about individual and systemic issues concerning sexual violence,” Lewis wrote in an e-mail. “Her wisdom and care about this very difficult issue will be missed...
...Hamilton Smith, both Nobel prizewinners for their work on DNA; Pulitzer prizewinning entomologist and sociobiologist E.O. Wilson; genome mappers Francis Collins and J. Craig Venter; John Gearhart, who isolated the fetal embryonic stem cell; Dean Hamer, the leading expert on behavior genes; plant geneticist Ingo Potrykus; neuroscientists Dr. Wise Young and Rudolph Tanzi; inventors Jaron Lanier and Raymond Kurzweil; software gurus Bill Joy and John Gage; environmentalists Thomas Lovejoy and Brian Halweil; ethicists Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Institute and Donald Bruce of the Church of Scotland; legal scholar Bartha Knoppers; brain scientist Baroness Susan Greenfield; Lieut. General Paul...