What type of tax reform do you want? Simplification of the existing progressive income tax system? A flat tax? A sales tax? A value-added tax?Tax professionals, economists, elected officials and others heatedly debate the pros and cons of each. However, it is unlikely that real tax reform will occur until the financial crisis gets so bad that most people will agree to radical change.Most tax ...
If the Senate goes nuclear
At this writing, Senate Democrats are threatening to exercise the ';nuclear option'; - a parliamentary maneuver that would end, once and for all, the minority?s ability to block presidential nominations with 41 votes. It is a safe bet that if Majority Leader Harry Reid can get away with doing this for the president?s appointees to executive branch positions, he soon will ...
EDITORIAL Argentinas flour folly
Governments everywhere always think they know what?s best for everyone. It?s true here and true in Argentina, where the government decided to address the soaring cost of bread by banning the export of flour and wheat. ';Hoarders'; of baked goods were threatened with jail time.President Christine Fernandez de Kirchner found a dusty 1974 law that enables the state to compel ...
EDITORIAL A blue slip for amnesty
Senate formally transmits the immigration bill to the House, any member can bring the ';return to sender'; resolution to an immediate vote. Doing that with the amnesty bill might persuade the ...
BERES A crime without a punishment
What sort of people and government would agree to free the murderers of its own children and do it in the name of a presumed ';good will'; toward irreconcilable enemies? What might this people and government be thinking, especially when its hoped-for quid pro quo is an obvious delusion?Inconceivably, in Jerusalem, there is evidence that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may soon oblige ...
FEULNER Skip the amnesty sequel
Reagan to accept the compromise at the heart of the 1986 immigration ';reform'; bill and sign it into law.Why? Because that piece of legislation turned out to be a big amnesty bill. No, it wasn?t advertised that way. It was sold as ';border security in exchange for amnesty.'; Except that the promised border security never materialized. ...
The defender Mark OMara a real-life Atticus Finch
Harry Reid warned, ';this isn?t over with.'; Before the next drama unfolds, let?s take a moment to reflect on this ordeal. In doing so, real-life civic heroes emerge. Those men ...
Editorial Trafficking in hate
The drumbeat has begun - George Zimmerman must be guilty of something no matter what a Florida jury says. So the usual suspects have begun the usual campaign to have the Justice Department re-open its civil rights case against him.The facts? Well, who needs facts when you have the likes of the Rev. Al Sharpton organizing vigils and the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union calling on ...
Hungary Testing Europe?s Resolve on Rights
It is high time to move from assessments to action, and every time Europe's institutions waver in the face of Hungary's aggressive deflection of legitimate criticism is a great source of ...
Tour of shame for Thein Sein
By Matthew Smith BANGKOK - Myanmar's President Thein Sein travels to London and Paris this week, where he will meet British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande. Now that decades-long European Union economic sanctions against Myanmar have been lifted - with the exception of an arms embargo - trade and investment are expected to dominate the agenda. But ...
Report undermines USs Osama glory
By Ramzy Baroud Those enchanted by pseudo-reality must have been at the edge of their seats as they watched Zero Dark Thirty, a Hollywood account of how US Navy SEAL Team Six killed Osama Bin Laden on May 1, 2011. But the Abbottabad Commission's report on the killing suggests it was hardly as glamorous as made out to be. In fact, if it were not for the "shocking state of ...
Will the Iranian impasse end with Rouhani
By Jasmin Ramsey WASHINGTON - The June 14 election of Hassan Rouhani, nicknamed the "diplomatic sheik" during his service as Iran's chief nuclear negotiator from 2003-2005, to Iran's presidency was met with hopeful celebrations within the country but much cooler reactions from key world leaders. While a July 13 Wall Street Journal report claimed that the Obama ...
Energy theft a burning issue in Nangarhar
By Hijratullah Ekhtyar Sitting in front of his shop in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, drenched in sweat, tailor Abdullah Bashardost fanned himself in a vain attempt to cool down in the scorching heat. Without electricity to power fans, there can be little respite from summer temperatures which can reach 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) in Nangarhar province. ...
India-Bhutan ties reach a crossroads
could have lost the vote for the formerly ruling Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT). While various post-election analysis have been offered by various quarters, three probable explanations for the election results stand out: The first rests on domestic factors in Bhutan, the second can be traced to ...
Germanys successposes threat to China
Beijing-based economist Michael Pettis has carved out through his "China Financial Markets" blog a distinct position with his commentaries on the Chinese economy, notably with his consideration of the difficulties it faces with its necessary rebalancing towards a more consumption-based model. Asia Times Online here draws the attention of Pettis' latest insightful analysis to a ...
What others say Policing charities
In general, tax exemptions for charities provide positive incentives. They encourage donations to worthwhile causes, and they allow organizations doing good to worry less about the cost of operations and more about their work. At a time when governments are cutting back, charities often play a key role in filling the ...
Kathleen Parker Republicans seem to be adopting the self-immolation tactics of principled martyrs
At this stage in the second term of the president they couldn't defeat, Republicans seem more like stubborn children refusing to come out of their rooms for supper, even though the alternative is going to bed ...
Letters Boycott the states you dont agree with
There are a lot of people that don't agree with the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial in Florida. There are a lot of people that don't agree with the war on women in ...
Robert Bennett ACA delay sign of poor management
Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, center, and other GOP senators, speak with reporters at the Capitol about the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as "Obamacare," at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 10, 2013. From left to right, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan. GOP ...
In our opinion Teens and alcohol
According to a recent report, Utah kids who use alcohol are much more likely to binge drink than kids in other states. Nationally, about half the kids who admit to recent alcohol use admit to binge drinking, or consuming five or more drinks in a row. In Utah, 72 percent of those high school seniors who say they've recently had a drink admit to binge ...
Op-Docs Occupy Bakery
We first met Mahoma López, the subject of this Op-Doc video, in April 2012 at a secret meeting in a ...
Op-Docs Occupy Bakery
We first met Mahoma López, the subject of this Op-Doc video, in April 2012 at a secret meeting in a ...
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