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Impressionantes os dados fornecidos, a propósito da tragédia de Nova Orleães, neste artigo de Nicholas D. Kristof no New York Times, sobre a pobreza e as carências sanitárias nos Estados Unidos.
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- Cain's Stimulating '9-9-9' Tax Reform
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- A New Spending Record
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- The Buffett Alternative Tax
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- The Debt Ceiling And The Pursuit Of Happiness
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"O furacão da pobreza"
Impressionantes os dados fornecidos, a propósito da tragédia de Nova Orleães, neste artigo de Nicholas D. Kristof no New York Times, sobre a pobreza e as carências sanitárias nos Estados Unidos.
«Hurricane Katrina also underscores a much larger problem: the growing number of Americans trapped in a never-ending cyclone of poverty. (...)Na verdade, uma vergonha mais própria de países do 3º mundo...
The U.S. Census Bureau reported a few days ago that the poverty rate rose again last year, with 1.1 million more Americans living in poverty in 2004 than a year earlier. After declining sharply under Bill Clinton, the number of poor people has now risen 17 percent under Mr. Bush.
If it's shameful that we have bloated corpses on New Orleans streets, it's even more disgraceful that the infant mortality rate in America's capital is twice as high as in China's capital. That's right - the number of babies who died before their first birthdays amounted to 11.5 per thousand live births in 2002 in Washington, compared with 4.6 in Beijing.
Indeed, according to the United Nations Development Program, an African-American baby in Washington has less chance of surviving its first year than a baby born in urban parts of the state of Kerala in India.
Under Mr. Bush, the national infant mortality rate has risen for the first time since 1958. The U.S. ranks 43rd in the world in infant mortality, according to the C.I.A.'s World Factbook; if we could reach the level of Singapore, ranked No. 1, we would save 18,900 children's lives each year.
Nationally, 29 percent of children had no health insurance at some point in the last 12 months, and many get neither checkups nor vaccinations. On immunizations, the U.S. ranks 84th for measles and 89th for polio.
(...) That's the larger hurricane of poverty that shames our land.»
- The Buffett Ruse
Editorial do WSJ Obama's ploy means the highest capital gains tax rate since 1978 Remember the moment in 2008 when Charlie Gibson of ABC News asked Senator Barack Obama why he would support raising the capital gains tax even though "revenues from...
- Cain's Stimulating '9-9-9' Tax Reform
By ARTHUR B. LAFFER, WSJ It used to be that the sole purpose of the tax code was to raise the necessary funds to run government. But in today's world the tax mandate has many more facets. These include income redistribution, encouraging favored industries,...
- A New Spending Record
Editorial do WSJ Maybe it's a sign of the tumultuous times, but the federal government recently wrapped up its biggest spending year, and its second biggest annual budget deficit, and almost nobody noticed. Is it rude to mention this? The Congressional...
- The Buffett Alternative Tax
Editorial do WSJ Washington has repeated nearly every economic policy mistake of the 1930s in recent years, so why not repeat one of the bigger blunders of the 1960s too? We refer to President Obama's proposal yesterday for a new "Buffett Rule" to...
- The Debt Ceiling And The Pursuit Of Happiness
By ARTHUR C. BROOKS, WSJ The battle over the debt ceiling is only the latest skirmish in what promises to be an ongoing, exhausting war over budget issues. Americans can be forgiven for seeing the whole business as petty, selfish and tiresome. Conservatives...