Word: cuttingly
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What the Bush plan adds is another penalty for failure, one based on private-school vouchers. Under the plan, schools that receive Title 1 money from Washington would be given three years to meet standards. If they failed, Bush would cut up their Title 1 money and give it directly to parents in the form of $1,500 vouchers that could be spent on tutoring or tuition at another public, private or parochial school. The idea is to liberate kids and shame schools into shaping up. But it also contradicts the rest of Bush's proposal, since private schools abide...
...testing kills classroom creativity by forcing them to teach for the tests alone. And education wonks see other problems with the Bush plan. If Gore throws money at the problem without demanding accountability, Bush demands accountability without throwing enough money. As Gore argued last week, Bush's proposed tax cut is so expensive--between $1.3 trillion and $2.1 trillion over 10 years, depending on whose analysis you believe--that it would exceed the projected surplus, leaving nothing for anything else. Blithely ignoring that problem, Bush proposes a five-year, $5.5 billion spending increase for education, but most of it would...
...chunk of his $70 million on public-opinion surveys. Aren't polls simply an expression of the will of the people? Last week the Republicans in Congress, having read a few polls that showed Americans want their leaders to be fiscally prudent, reversed field and put forth a tax cut smaller than Bush's. But Bush dug in further on his $483 billion tax cut, insisting he was standing on principle but sounding like a guy who's got his back up. He made some pleasant noises about New York Governor George Pataki's gun-control plan, which follows...
...always best, though. The higher short-term rate may translate into a lower tax bill if gains are modest and the cost basis is high. Consider two stocks: one goes from $10 to $110 in 12 months; the other, from $90 to $110 in six months. You cut your tech exposure by $110 selling either. But the long-term winner triggers $20 in federal tax, based on a 20% capital-gains rate. The other triggers just $7.92 in federal tax, based on the top short-term rate...
...Sell short. If you can't part with your tech darlings, cut your exposure by shorting the NASDAQ 100 or buying a put option on the index. When you short the index, you borrow a basket of shares and sell, hoping to replace them at a lower price and profit from the decline. A put option gives you the right to sell at a predetermined price, protecting you from a steep drop...