...C. Chilton Pearson The Present Status of Tax Reform in North Carolina C. Chilton Pearson Wake Forest College That there is need for tax reform in North Carolina very few will deny. The existing system if system it can be called possesses few virtues.1 It is not elastic. For the ca­ pacity...

...Alexander Heard Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Tax Reform vs. Voluntaryism: The New Threat to Higher Education in America Alexander Heard This article was presented at the Graduation Exercises of Duke University on May 11, 1975. Alexander Heard is Chancellor of Vanderbilt...

... inequality, violence, displacement, and dispossession of territories, all within the context of the political regime’s chronic inability to respond to social demands. social uprising mobilizations neoliberal policies tax reform References Azzati S. . 2020 . Economías populares en la...

...Karim Makdisi This essay frames the early promise and energy of Lebanon’s October 2019 uprising, triggered by the government’s announcement of a series of regressive taxes. After fifteen years of civil war (1975–90) and three decades of postwar neoliberal policies, people rose up against...

... in the hereditary nobility, the fundamental laws of France had a peculiar habit of coinciding exactly with the class interest of the French nobility. The principal bone of contention between the king and his parlements in 1788 was tax reform. The government of France, the richest country in Europe, was near...

...), such as New York’s Empire State Development Corporation, are authorized to issue debt backed by tax dollars. There are tens of thousands of such entities across the United States, a “shadow government” not accountable to voters. PAs operate based on a corporate model in which overleveraged holdings are hidden...

... the establishment of a state budget system, and reorganization of the tax system. State services were extended and reforms enacted in many directions, including the administrative reform of the school system after a systematic survey and the highest appropria­ tions for public education to that time...

... for tax reform in North Carolina see Pearson s Present Status of Tax Reform , South Atlantic Quarterly, October, 1919. 290 The South Atlantic Quarterly Every one knows that valuation of the tangible property of corporations, both private and public service, was greater in proportion than that of farm...

... about the Negro in a political way? requires a longer examination. Progressive reformers appeared first on the municipal level; their attention was largely focused on breaking the control of the political machines, on effecting tax reforms, and on establishing a more wholesome relationship between...

... on Public Expenditures and Public Revenues and on Taxation and Tax Reform in the United States. The somewhat difficult chapter on Production and Distribution has been completely rewritten. Other minor changes and corrections have been made, and titles of recently published important works in economics...

... stimulated by the obscene proposal for a tax reform that would attack the middle class. Those who make up the different protest movements and social mobilizations are saying that something is wrong with the economic model in which wealth is highly concentrated, in which the expanded modes of accumulation...

... and conditions leading up to it, see Raper, C. L., North Carolina s Taxation Problem and its Solution , South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. XIV, No. I; Pearson, C. Chilton, The Present Status of Tax Reform in North Carolina , (/bid., Vol. XVIII, No. 4); and Francis Nash, Revaluation and Taxation in North Carolina...

... an American), John Cheever, Eliot, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, and others. He even considers President Carter s de­ sired tax reform of the so-called three-Martini lunch. Professor Edmunds fails, however, to take account of the Martini in works of lit­ erary criticism for example, Morse Peckham s...

... con­ verged with the needs and demands of the Chilean people. With respect to the critical problem of financing, the prospects for the Chilean undertaking are also generally bright. The tax reforms reportedly are resulting in substantial increases in govern­ mental revenues, making possible a rise...

... of NIRA, Congressional Record, 74th Cong., 1st Sess., pp. 9089-186 (12 June 1935); ibid., p. 11618 (23 July 1935); New York Times, 26 July 1935. Huey Long and Reform in the New Deal 267 the progressives demand for tax reform. He called his proposal a capital levy because it would confiscate fortunes...

... on tax reform now be­ fore us in North Carolina is that to segregate the sources of reve­ nue for the different units of government that the state should take to itself those sources which are more nearly state-wide (tax on corporations, inheritance, income, franchise, and license) and leave to the local...

... movies, divorce, or any matter involving human emotions. If the newspapers that I read are any indication, these warmly human public protagonists have been replaced by a colorless as­ sortment of stuffy academicians. These deal, not with the basic stuff that makes the human juices flow, but with tax...

... to combat illiteracy. Other sections of the program advocate tax reform which would place most of the burden of taxation upon the top income levels and a simplification of the now quite complicated electoral system. The PDC was originally a staunch supporter of the Cuban Revolution; however, many Christian...

... accomplish broad reforms without messy revolu­ tion or social upheaval. Seven hundred delegates, many of them Farmers Union members, attended the conclave. The pro­ gressive platform drawn up for discussion by Poe and company included tax reform, six-months schools, railway rate revision, child labor...

.../globaltrends/ . A G A I N S T the D A Y Farid Abud An Approach to the Argumentation in the Front Line s Discourse in Colombia At the beginning of 2021, the Colombian government of Iván Duque Márquez proposed reforms to tax public services and basic goods, increase private participation in the health...