Fair tax reform brings new unfairness and new reform
A columnist critiques the 1968 and proposed S.336 marriage tax reforms. The piece argues haste creates unintended inequities, using sample households with $30 000 incomes to show how changes affect married and single filers. It warns reform may simply recreate past inequities and cites legal notions of income and fairness.
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Time now to build another ark
Marilyn C. Sippy argues that extinction trends threaten half a billion species by 2000 and warns that losing genetic diversity endangers ecosystems. She cites Endangered Species Act history, current court cases, and the need for long term planning and ecological balance.
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