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The Presidential Election Of 2000
Number of Words: 1430 / Number of Pages: 6
... tax system that we now use in favor of a flat rate tax of 17%. This plan also calls for the dismantling of the Internal Revenue Service, one of Forbes' chief adversaries. He is in favor of a Tax Limitation Amendment to the Constitution. This amendment would make it extremely hard for Congress to raise taxes. Like many other Republicans, he supports the end of the marriage tax and with his plan, there would be no separate tax on savings, pensions, and capital gains.
Bush's opinions on this subject are very different than Forbes'. On 1 December 1999 he unveiled his "tax plan for every American. ...
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U.S Postal Service As A Monopoly
Number of Words: 1238 / Number of Pages: 5
... of $22.5 Billion and was
additionally receiving $176 million from investing(#1, Intro). Even with this
added revenue the Postal Service was still greatly under funded on its own (#1,
Intro). During this time it was discussed to privatize the postal service and
introduce competition because of the extreme losses that the service was
experiencing. A positive argument for privatizing the Postal Service was with
numerous competitors in the market there would be more efficiency and the public
would receive lower prices. But this would also increase the usage of resources,
for example airplanes and cars ...
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Religion The State And Soverei
Number of Words: 1319 / Number of Pages: 5
... acknowledged the importance of Christianity and used it to hold together the remnants of it former self. This adoption of Christianity took form and eventually became the Catholic church.
The church became intermingled with politics and became a strong entity. The policies delivered from the church had more authority than the local rulers and magistrates of the developing feudal system. For example, St. Augustine wrote about war and what justified its enactment against fellow men. This policy was followed and adhered to for hundreds of years after St. Augustine wrote it.
Another example, is the use o ...
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Diplomatic Immunity
Number of Words: 1780 / Number of Pages: 7
... not been so ideal. Recently the occurrences of abuse
for personal or national gain has grown out of proportion. What once protected
the diplomat and his staff from parking tickets and some differing social laws,
now grants them protection under the law to commit crimes such as drug
trafficking, kidnapping, rape, and murder. Even though serious crimes are rare
and punishable to various extents in most countries, domestic authorities were
forced to look the other way. While it would be convenient to believe that the
six hundred pounds of marijuana was sent for personal consumption at the embassy,
it is ...
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Analysis Of The Immigration Problem
Number of Words: 1996 / Number of Pages: 8
... growth takes place in the Third World. More than a billion people today are paid about 150 dollars a year, which is less than the average American earns in a week. And growing numbers of these poorly paid Third World citizens want to come to the United States.
In the 1970s, all other countries that accept immigrants started controlling the number of people they would allow into their countries. The United States did not. This means that the huge numbers of immigrants who are turned down elsewhere will turn to the United States. The number of immigrants is staggering. The human suffering they ...
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Constitutional Convention: Day By Day Occurrences
Number of Words: 1791 / Number of Pages: 7
... freely with Ben Franklin about his ideas about government. Mr.
Franklin has traveled widely and has seen many nations. He is old and wise
and I want to talk to him before he passes away. Right now he is at the
age of 81, I think.
May 31
Recently the convention has become vexatious. The summers in this
towne are very humid. We are forced to keep the window open everywhere.
Flies are about at all times and it is hard to concentrate. Also, some of
the discussions at this convention are sluggish and tiresome.
One good thing about the weather is that it has given me time to
reflect ...
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Bureaucratic Pathologies
Number of Words: 517 / Number of Pages: 2
... seem to be working at cross-purposes with other agencies.
Duplication, usually called “wasteful duplication”, occurs when two government agencies seem to be doing the same thing.
To end conflict and duplication, Congress would have to make some policy choices and set some clear priorities, but with all the competing demands that it faces, Congress finds it difficult to do that.
Both conflict and duplication occur because Congress, in setting up agencies and programs, often wants to achieve a number of different, partially inconsistent goals or finds that it cannot decide which goal it values ...
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Marijuana
Number of Words: 2604 / Number of Pages: 10
... elderly, as well as others, welcome that
development -- even if they fear some of its consequences. With these
advances it has become possible to keep people in a vegetative state
for almost unlimited periods of time. Moreover, there are situations
in which neither the patient nor the family has the ability to bring
such unhappy circumstances to an end. For this reason, advance
directives are becoming increasingly prevalent. In a recent study,
King (1996) reported that approximately 90% of the American public
want advance directives. Both the young and the healthy express at ...
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Domestic Violence
Number of Words: 1801 / Number of Pages: 7
... too no surprise the woman has almost always been the most
common victim. In Roman times, a man was allowed to divorce, chastise, or even kill his wife
for adultery, attending public games, or public drunkenness. All of which the husband was
allowed to freely partake in. During the middle ages it was mans right to beat his wife or kill her
for so much as giving her husband a dirty look. The first recorded advocates against domestic
violence were two author by names of Christian Pizan and Mary Wollstonecraft. Even though
the issue was being publicized, no action was ever taken until ...
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The Alien And Sedition Acts
Number of Words: 1730 / Number of Pages: 7
... Constitution made no mention of territorial control. In essence, Hamilton wished to use the implied powers to build a strong and authoritative central government.
In 1789, the Minister to France Thomas Jefferson, to Francis Hopkinson of Pennsylvania, protesting that "I am not of the party of the federalists. But I am much farther from that of the anitfederalists." However, the situation was so sensitive that he could not help but chose a side. In 1795, Jefferson wrote to a congressman from Virginia, William Giles, that he "held "t honorable to take a firm and decided part." The group he sided with, the ...
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