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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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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"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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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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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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Unemployment and Inflation can be caused by many different things but normally they follow the business cycle with high inflation in times of boom and high unemployment in times of recession. ... Also, your government needs to consider lowering taxes or finding areas to cut taxes in order to shift the aggregate demand curve to the right. Perhaps initiating some type of government stimulus plan would be significant in helping the economy return back to pre-recessionary times. The key to achieving the best outcome is understanding what proportion of the government spending increase or tax cut is...

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Without the Revolution America would not be the country it is today, it was one of the most influential wars of all times. ... After the stamp act was passed many more taxes were imposed including the townshend act, imposing taxes on imported goods and the sugar act, imposing taxes on sugar. ... The colonists would not put up with it and they decided that no matter what the tax was on they needed to be consulted before they were taxed. ... The war was brutal and bloody and there were more than three times as many casualties as there were in World War III. ... Imagine if every state was a d...

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The history that was made by the people of hundreds of nationalities, who came to the United States to seek a new life style, a new job and a new home. ... The article named "The Chinese Question" stressed what new device would be used to pass the Chinese bill. ... In keeping with the sentiment of the times, the editorial perceived the Chinese as the most alien of the immigrants to come to American shores. ... A prestige newspaper The New York Times called Miller's speech "a mastery statement, admirable in temper and judicial in fairness". ... The Chinese were faced to pay the immigration...

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In this article the author discusses why there has been a growth in the number of small countries. ... Small states have been around since ancient Greek times and during the renaissance in Italy. ... Today Africa has more than forty-eight independent states and twenty-five new countries in existence. ... For example, if Texas goes into a recession, states like New York and California can still prosper, those people who lived in Texas can move to places like New York to find better jobs. ... In conclusion the article shows that there are obvious advantages and disadvantages both to being large ...

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This unfair competition makes it harder for small firms to survive and for new players to enter the market. ... According to his article, Financial Reform 101, from The New York Times, breaking up big financial institutions will not guarantee the safety of the economy. ... However, Paul Krugman responds to this argument in his article, Too big to fail FAIL. ... Some economists propose an idea that the government should impose tax and other types of fees to limit the size of the corporation. ... " The first solution is keeping those firms big but imposing heavy regulations and taxes on t...

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Lincoln Steffens wrote in McClure's, an article, "The Shame of the Cities" which magnified the alliance between big business and the government in 1902. ... Charles Evans Hughes investigated malpractice in gas and insurance companies in New York. ... A fire burned up 146 women workers in 1911 at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City which aided in the fight against child labor, women labor, and other labor laws. ... Early in his presidency the 16th amendment was passed, so in 1913 he reduced import fees and enacted a gradual income tax. ... The reformers seemed limited at t...

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The tactics used included literacy tests, grandfather clauses, poll taxes, and just plain scaring blacks and other groups out of showing up to the polls, usually with violence. ... In the discussion about whether these laws should be allowed, there have been comparisons made between Voter ID laws and the poll taxes that were used to stop minorities from voting back in the Jim Crow era. ... We call those poll taxes.... In the Patterson case, the court upheld a law that approved "burdening voters to protect election integrity, a conclusion that seems to bless the new ID requirements," as stated ...

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