In Canada, the total costs associated with paying personal income taxes (including the time Canadians spend preparing and filing taxes, and the cost of tax software and accounting services) amount to upwards of $3.9 billion a year, says Niels Veldhuis of the Fraser Institute. However, if Canada adopted a flat
Leaders of the G-8 nations are gathered this week in Tokyo, Japan, to root out the culprits in a food crisis that has moved hundreds of millions from subsistence to starvation. In fact, they only have themselves to blame, says Adam Lerrick, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
The
The United Kingdom's National Health Service is being sued for tens of millions of pounds in damages over bugs picked up in hospitals, says the Manchester Guardian:
Almost £7.5 million (about U.S. $14.8 million) has already been paid out to more than 100 victims of the superbug MRSA and the Clostridium-difficile
Robert Mugabe has kept his embattled regime in Zimbabwe afloat on a sea of paper money. Now he’ll have to try to do it without the paper, says the Wall Street Journal.
The Munich-based company, Giesecke & Devrient, that has supplied Zimbabwe with the special blank sheets to print its increasingly
If you are a woman of childbearing age in a developing country, there's a good chance your government will pay you to reproduce at the currently desirable rate, says Kerry Howley of Reason.
For example:
Russian women who have a second child receive a lump sum of 250,000 rubles (about U.S. $9,200).
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