As seen in New York Times article "Paid Parental Leave: Who Gains?"" ... Such a situation can be seen in Kosovo where, considering the difficult economic times, many small and medium-sized businesses are violating the rights of women by avoiding hiring them. ... There would be a noticeable increase in taxes if the government foots the bill for the leave. ... However, such a policy means high taxes. ... However, this could result in higher taxes or disability insurance rates on remaining employees. ...

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In a city as big as New York, and who brings in millions of tourist a year, it is hard to believe that we are in a finically hardship. New York city is in a 5 billion dollar budget deficit. ... In an article written in the Daily News October 19, 2002 by Michael Saul. ... But to this problem which has been brought up New York turns to Europe and our neighboring country of Canada where in Toronto for five years a system of cameras have been set-up to capture license plates and bill the owner of the car. ... In my idea Bloomberg should raise taxes on big business and smal...

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Chapter Two Introduction & New York Times Article from January 12, 2003 Both the introduction and the New York Times article dated January 12, 2003 both deal with the wealth and power that some groups of people in society have over others in society. ... I believe the newspaper article to be much more "current" and more shocking at face value than the introduction to the chapter in the textbook. ... This way of thinking further enables Republicans to create laws and enact tax cuts that only benefit the big businesses and the wealthy upper class. The article also states that, "Americans ...

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The New York Times stated that even baby boomers are unsuccessfully trying to reduce their student loans. ... In an article by the Huffington Post, being busy apparently shows a higher status. ... According to the New York Times, these are the jobs that are no longer needed because of increasingly advanced technology and outsourcing. ... For example, The New York Times states that this is the cause of the increasing income inequality in America. In the article, it is mentioned that General Electric essentially pays less than a 2% tax and that Mitt Romney paid only a 14% income tax in 2011. ...

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"Tokyo Announces Its Stimulus Package;" by Ken Belson; The New York Times; October 17, 2001; Page W1. ... The new stimulus package will be only half the size of last year's supplementary budget and another trillion yen will be used to retire old debts. ... Critics say the new plan only keeps the economy from contracting faster than it would have without the plan. The Finance Ministry said that the government would take in 1.1 billion yen - $9.1 million - less in tax revenue than it had originally forecast. ... Brief Analysis: This article deals with the continuing struggle of th...

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In 1807, two men, Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston were given, by the New York state legislature, the ability to operate and license any steamboats in the waters of New York. ... Ogden, angered by this and wanting to eliminate his competition, went to the New York state court, asking them to forbid Gibbons from landing his steamboat in New York. ... Assuming then that people do count as commerce, the Commerce Clause in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution would give the federal government and their license the advantage over the state of New York's license. ... Since the steamboats...

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Every time a new immigration law comes out, it comes with some restrictions. ... An article explains that this new policy reduces employment-based immigration, which can severely affect the U.S companies in getting skilled labor. ... According to The New York Times article " A Silicon Wall Rises on the Border," " To bolster its effort to stop lawbreakers from entering the country and to speed along law-abiding, who sometimes wait for hours to cross the border with truck or car, the government is enlisting the help of technology. ... Thus, the immigrants become an additional source of tax inco...

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I recently read an article out of the Dayton Business Journal, entitled "Accounting Office goes Paperless." ... In this article one expert says, "Paper is a huge cost to businesses and an unnecessary burden." ... I recently read an article about proposals for Canada's tax laws. This article was entitles "Taxes: RRSP limits boosted." ... The New York Times recently published an article entitled, "Tax Moves by Enron said to Mystify the I.R.S." that elaborates how it was pulled off, until they were caught. ...

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According to the article, U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence from the Harvard Business School, article writer and professor, William R. ... They want to pay taxes, get a job, support their family, buy a car, and vote in elections. According to the Center for American Progress, "If these migrants are given work permits and brought into the system, they will contribute $45 billion over five years in payroll taxes to the United States economy" (New York Times). ...

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It defines partnership and gives tax information and advice for choosing a partner. ... This article tells about the experiences of four dental hygienists who have started their own independent practices. ... This is an article telling about some of the opportunities open to an independent dental hygienist. ... New York: Penguin, 1982. ... The collection presents a selection of varied perspectives from a wide range of cultures, but at times strains to justify including a story under a particular heading. ...

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It is in this fervor, Stiglitz adds, that the IMF, instead of encouraging increase in expenditures and reduce in taxes or interest rates, today usually provides funds only if the countries engage in policies like cutting deficits and raising taxes or interest rates that lead to a contraction of the economy. ... To support this claim, Stiglitz makes mention of the fuel and food subsidies cut in Indonesia, Morocco and Papua New Guinea, the IMF-forced cutbacks in health expenditure in Thailand resulting in AIDS increase, and the education cutbacks in many of the developing countries. ... Thi...

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"Concerns About a Shrinking River Are Beginning to Heat Up" is an article presented in The New York Times that explains a tragic story of how a river that once flourished and provided aid to farmers throughout Central Texas has now deteriorated into small collections of sitting pools of water. ... The article goes on to explain certain individuals dealing with the adversity of the lacking water source. ... There are taxes that many households pay that have nothing to do directly to their family-including education taxes for public schools given that a family sends their children t...

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Hector Giraudo, 10 year computer engineer at IBM, "Computer's are with out a doubt the beginning of a new era in technology"( ). ... As David Pogue, former columnist for Macworld and author of Macs for Dummies, states in his July 11, 2002 article in the New York Times, Are Gadgets Already Too Small, "I realized that in several respects, no further extrapolation is possible. ... You can even keep track of bills and taxes. ... As Todd Oppenheimer, writer for Atlantic Monthly, stated in his July 1997 article on The Computer Delusion, "People tend to have the impression that computers are mai...

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By making liquor illegal, the American government inadvertently gave criminals a new branch of goods to monopolize on. ... " The article, The Impact of Organized Crime on Chicago, defined labor racketeering as the "involvement of gangsters in legitimate businesses where they would then pose as regular workers" (Hales and Kazmers). ... Before the criminalization of alcohol, taxes gathered from alcohol sells made up a large portion of budget funds. ... Joseph Henchman, an attorney and policy analyst who supervises the Tax Foundation's state policy, notes that Prohibitionists intro...

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Then locate an article from The New York Times. ... In the article "A Promise to Protect Pension Will Test Greece's Red Line on Austerity," it's explained that Greece is currently suffering the social problems of tax increases, pension cuts, and unemployment. ... Tax increases are one solution but put a huge burden on the people of Greece. ... The country may decide to conduct further pension reductions and tax increases. ... In Modern Times, a Charles Chaplin movie, people are displayed as machine appendages similar to what Marx said. ...

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The article 1, section 8 of the constitution delegates to Congress the power, to regulate commerce. ... The issue in this case was whether the State of New York could grant a monopoly to a steamboat company to operate an exclusive service between New York and New Jersey, in opposition to the power of Congress. ... Section 8 of the constitution proves that Congress has the power to collect taxes, borrow money, and regulate commerce. ... Four methods of amendment are provided for in Article 5, all of which involve congress and the states. ... Our principles of Constitutionalism create a ...

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In the first article, Cross attempts to explain the form of propaganda and the way it is used. The second piece of writing is written by William Safire; a writer for the New York Times. ... This article by Cross is a very intelligent look at how some people can overlook propaganda being sold to them. ... So, Kennedy and Safire will obviously not be on the same page regarding government and tax situations. ...

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They fear this new plan will fail. ... In his article "Obama Will Repeal Medicare," Dick Morris argues that the new health care plan should provide proper support and care that the elderly deserve"(1). ... Sinai Medical Center in New York City, which is dedicated to my mother, our mission is to help people live longer, healthier, productive lives even as they grow older." ... It is not fair that the seniors who do not have healthcare will have a tax increase that provides for these unhealthy habits. ... In an article in the New York Times "Health Care Reform", the arti...

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Shaw, for the first 155 days of 1977, compared the front-page stories of the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. ... An article by David Croteau, reports that most journalists identify themselves as centrists on both social and economic issues. ... High levels of education tend to be associated with liberal views on social issues such as racial equality, gay rights, gun control and abortion rights, high levels of income tend to be associated with conservative views on economic issues such as tax policy and federal spending (Extra 41). ... Kincaid asked in the article....

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In a 2012 Washington Post article, Holder compared voter ID laws to a 'poll tax', referring to fees in some states in the South that were used to disenfranchise blacks during the Jim Crow era (Horwitz). ... Tobin of Commentary Magazine stated in a 2012 Christian Science Monitor article, "Analogies between voter I.D. legislation and Jim Crow poll taxes are absurd. ... Poll taxes that some southern states used to suppress the vote of ex-slaves was abolished in 1964. ... In a 2011 New York Times editorial piece, it claims that "there is almost no voter fraud in America."...

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"The Fatal Flaws" by Bob Herbert The New York Times February 11, 2002 Article Summary In the spring of 2000, a team of lawyers and criminologists headed by Prof. ... The study also suggested that the errors that permeate throughout the system also leave killers at large, exacerbate suffering, waste tax dollars and deprive citizens of the high quality of justice, which they expect and deserve. ! ... The article implies that the emergence of new studies, such as Prof. ... It was also found that the courts, because of serious errors, reversed 68 % of all death sentences reviewed from 19...

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Britain was imposing a series of unfair taxes. ... At the end of the Revolution, Hamilton went and studied law in Albany, New York. ... His fellow delegates from New York were anti-Federalist and were able to outvote him every time. Hamilton turned his energy to the ratification of the Constitution for New York. ... In 1804, when Burr was a candidate for governor of New York, Hamilton thwarted Burr's plans. ...

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In Richard Brookheisers article published in the New York Times Upfront he stated: In 1992, I was found to have testicular cancer. ... But midway through my treatment I could tell that Zofran, then a new hot drug prescribed to combat nausea, was losing its effect. ... The New England Journal of Medicine published an article in 1974 that told the public blood levels of the male hormone testosterone were severely decreased at an average of 56% of normal. ... It could save the citizens money instead of buying high priced prescription drugs and it could also make the government more money if they...

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This vibrant and humorous story begins in an "understated" French cafe with the author and the editor of Harpers magazine discussing future article themes. Somehow, the author's idea: to send "some hungry neophyte journalist" on an experiment in impoverished living conditions, turned on her and became a personal challenge/New York Times Bestselling book deal. ... Tax payers and voters, the part of American society that actually makes a difference cares about one thing only; the economy. ...

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