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...conditions, including a pension plan that matches five percent of worker contributions for every employee and payment of 60 percent of each worker’s healthcare premiums. Worst of all, businesses’ foreign divisions will have to pay the U.S. corporate tax rate, instead of their host countries?? rates. At 35 percent, our corporate tax rate is the second highest in the developed world, so companies would suffer a tax increase. And no, they don’t deserve one. In 2005, the National Bureau of Economic Research found that when U.S. companies take on more...
Inspired by Paul Farmer—a Harvard Medical School professor and co-founder of Partners in Health, a non-profit that brings medical care to third-world countries??Leiby said he is taking classes and researching with the Botswana-Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative for HIV Research and Education...
...time out-of-country extended and I traveled to France, Spain, and Morocco, I realized just how extraordinary the United States of America is. Freedom House, an NGO that analyzes countries?? comparative levels of freedom globally, correctly describes the USA as “free”—as a country in which citizens enjoy many political rights and civil liberties. We elect our own government. We have freedom of assembly, press, and speech. (We even, for the most part, have working toilets...
...While some foreign countries?? citizens enjoy a level of freedom similar to that in the United States, many are not so well-off. France and Spain are also, according to Freedom House, “free” countries, but Morocco is only “partly free” and China is “not free.” In Morocco, I learned that bars and coffee shops were “for men only” and that, as a woman, it was safer never to walk into one. I met Taiwanese women in Beijing...
...that do not demand emissions limits on developing countries (like China) and that would result in harm to the U.S. economy. Both points are flawed. While it is important that developing countries are, in the future, subject to the same rigid emissions caps currently imposed upon developed nations, developed countries??the countries that historically have “caused” global warming—cannot afford to postpone action. If the U.S., a rich country with advanced green technology, does not make a commitment to reduce emissions, how can we ask developing countries with fewer resources...