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...reflects his entrepreneurial impulses when it comes to the tax code. He teamed with McCain again to make the Internet a tax-free zone, and while he has voted against all of Bush's tax cuts, he proposes reducing the capital-gains tax to zero in key investment-driven industries; he offers other business tax incentives to reward companies that keep jobs in the country. His idea for a dividend-tax cut even before Bush proposed one is now a sensitive subject; his advisers say he will support it only if "it is done right...
...missile programs, for which the tubes were in fact destined, had continuing contracts from which to skim money. Kay concluded, "An analyst looks for rational explanations and usually finds them in the technical realm they're used to, but Iraq was almost like a parallel universe. The explanations were driven not by technical reasons but by the moral and personal depravity engendered by the regime. A rational person would look at it one way, and it would be completely wrong, because in this parallel universe there was a different set of rules...
...same conclusion. Rejecting common notions of the venerable fourth estate operating on people’s behalf to check government power, the White House views the media as a self-serving special interest. While there are certainly valid reasons to distrust the press—especially its contemporary profit-driven variations—the Bush White House seems to believe that an ideal press should serve as a mouthpiece for its pre-packaged sound bites, and that anything less is a profiteering scheme...
...avert the destabilization of the African continent; and creating independent financial institutions that reinvest and redistribute wealth throughout the Diaspora. Moreover, black elites must devote themselves to the education of black youth in order to provide an alternative voice to the onslaught of negativity unleashed by a profit-driven media...
...avert the destabilization of the African continent; and creating independent financial institutions that reinvest and redistribute wealth throughout the Diaspora. Moreover, black elites must devote themselves to the education of black youth in order to provide an alternative voice to the onslaught of negativity unleashed by a profit-driven media...