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How to Achieve a Simple and Fair Tax System
By: Anthony P. Archie
11.30.2005
SACRAMENTO, CA - Earlier this month, the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform recommended two plans touted as making the tax code more simple and fair. Though the plans rework the tax brackets and tinker with deductions, neither would institute the most simple and fair system of all: a flat tax.
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Court Ruling Updates Grand Theft Education
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
11.16.2005
SACRAMENTO, CA - Last week the Third District Court of Appeals here issued a little noticed and poorly reported ruling that updated a chronicle of waste and corruption in California's Department of Education (CDE). The CDE, which administers more than 40 percent of California's budget, maintains some curious practices on the issue of accountability.
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Literary Notes: An Exploitation Update
The Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
11.15.2005
The Contrarian turns to a strange event that occurred just before this year's Nobel Prize for Literature winner was announced. Knut Ahnlund, a member of the Nobel committee, abruptly resigned. He did not depart over this year's winner, British playwright Harold Pinter. Mr. Ahnlund resigned over last year's winner, Elfriede Jelinek.
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30-Second Lies
Capital Ideas
By: Xiaochin Claire Yan
11.7.2005
SACRAMENTO, CA - Election season is the season for dishonest campaigning on the part of the special interests who want to keep Californians misinformed and scared. That's why California voters have been bombarded with 30-second commercials claiming that Governor Schwarzenegger's record on education can't be trusted. According to these propaganda pieces, he has "cut'' spending by $4 billion, refused to pay back a $2 billion loan, and is now grabbing power to enact more cuts.
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How Proposition 76 Protects Education Funding
11.2.2005
SACRAMENTO, CA - Opponents of Proposition 76 claim that education funding will significantly decline if the measure passes on November 8. Though Prop 76 does make changes in education funding, it does not prevent the annual increases in education spending. The measure even encourages spending above the Prop 98 limit.
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