A Modest Proposal is everything that a satirical story should be. ... All his proposals are satirical, some even revolting. ... Possibly to try to make his proposal seem sane. His ten proposals are not erratic. They are modest but far to radical for the rich people. ...
Eliot Brownlee said: With the passage of the Revenue Act of 1916, the modest income tax of 1913 became an expansive effort to impose the progressive taxation of personal and corporate income, and of estates, to share in wartime sacrifices, to redistribute social power, and to expand economic opportunity. ... The fair tax rate is a tax reform proposal that would replace all federal income taxes, payroll taxes, gift taxes, and estate taxes with a single consumption tax on retail sales. ... The fair tax proposal is still years or even decades away from being passed, but the simple thought of it h...
Many authors write books about events, their lives and their environment, and their corrupt government. One satirical author who wrote a novel about living in a corrupt society is Jonathan Swift who wrote Gulliver's Travels. The places the protagonist had visited reflected on the author's Engl...
Modest tax increases and spending cuts, primarily to defense, to alleviate some of the pressure off Social Security unfunded obligations is a good direction to move policy. ... Social Security reform proposals create economic and political questions. ... A mix of modest tax increases and benefit reductions could extend benefits for 75 years and beyond. ...
Henry believes that he has a solution to the problem, "My modest proposal is this: Let us reduce, over perhaps a five-year span, the number of high school graduates who go on to college from nearly 60% to a still generous 33%" (Henry, p. 139). ...
Carney also points out that "if a person of modest means wanted to make a major purchase, they would have to borrow money to do so. ... Of the sales tax proposals that have been submitted to the legislature over the past few years, they have all had strings attached, either in the way of adjusting other taxes, or in exemptions for certain items. ...
