Word: sharing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...more taxes and therefore deserve more relief--and to some extent, this argument is valid. If the distribution of taxes across income groups were perfectly fair, the best way to cut taxes would be to preserve the distribution of burdens by reducing everyone's rates by the same share. In absolute dollar terms, most of the benefits from this change would go to the wealthy, both because their tax rates fall more and because they have more income. However, assuming that the system is already progressive, these unequal benefits would be justified...
Fineberg wasn't always so put together. Like any college student, he had his share of hijinks...
...none of these seems plausible, then perhaps the presidential race provides the answer. At the second presidential debate in Winston-Salem, N. C. Texas Gov. George W. Bush answered a question on whether the U.S. should share some of its wealth with poorer countries by saying, "we ought to be forgiving Third World debt under certain conditions." It remains unclear whether this statement reflects Bush's sincere concern for developing countries or merely an attempt to match the compassion of Vice President Al Gore '69. Gore has been a strong supporter of the White House's debt relief plan...
...point in the congressional leadership's approach to the issue. Now it is time for both the House and the Senate to act. We strongly urge them to take this issue seriously and save America the embarrassment of being the only major industrial country not willing to pay its share in the largest global debt relief effort to date...
...They've been sweating at AT&T for a while. Since hitting $60 a share in April, the nation's largest long-distance and cable television provider has been a widows-and-orphans stock, but in the wrong way: It's killing investors. Falling prices in the retail long-distance game has pushed the shares as low as $21 since, and on Monday, with the stock at $27, AT&T's board met to consider a capitulation plan. Split the company in four, with a stock for each division, and let investors reward or shun each on its own merits...