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- A．Flat Tax
Income tax is a direct tax which is levied on the income of private individuals．There are various income tax systems that exist．ranging frOm a flat tax to an extensive progressive tax systern．
A flat tax，also cal led a proportional tax，is a system that taxes．Usual ly the flat tax is proposed to k ick in at a certain income level，or to exempt income below that level，so that the lowest-income members of society don’t need to pay income tax．
Proposed flat taxes usually allow little or no exemption of earned income besides the bottom-level exemption．
Advocates of a flat tax claim that it will end unfair discrimination．They also argue that flat taxes are easier(and cheaper)to administer and comply with than complex，graduated taxes．Most political parties that advocate the introduction of a flat tax are on the right of the pol itical spectrum． - B．Progressive Tax
A progressive tax，or graduated tax，is a tax that is larger as a percentage o
[单项选择]President Obama signed a legislation to provide twenty-six billion dollars to the States for education and healthcare. The measures include ten billion dollars for education and sixteen billion for Medicaid, the joint state-federal government medical program for the poor. The legislation will help one hundred and sixty thousand teachers and one hundred and fifty thousand police and public service workers keep their jobs. Thus, the measures are good news for them.
The House of Representatives has approved the bill. House members had already begun a six-week holiday when the Senate approved the measure last week. Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, took the rare step of calling House lawmakers back to Washington to vote on the bill and send it to President Obama without delay. It is obvious that the House of Representatives are also very concerned with the progress.
President Obama has stressed the importance of education for all Americans. He said this is necessary for the cou
A. They were trying to prevent the measures to be effected.
B. They were on holidays.
C. They were having an argument with the Senate members.
D. Not mentioned.
[单项选择]President Obama cast his efforts to overhaul America’s health care system in moral terms in a conference call with liberal religious organizations late Wednesday afternoon, saying "these struggles always boil down to a contest between hope and fear."
"Throughout our history, whenever We’ve sought to change this country for the better, whenever we’ve sought to promote justice, there have always been those who wanted to preserve the status quo," Mr. Obama said, specifically mentioning the efforts of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to enact Social Security and John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson to start Medicare.
"I believe that nobody in America should be denied basic health care because he or she lacks health insurance, and no one in America should be pushed to the edge of financial ruin because an insurance company denies them coverage or drops their coverage or charges fees they can’t afford for care that they desperately need," he also said.
The call was sponsor
A. cast his efforts in moral terms
B. compare himself to Lyndon Baines Johnson
C. show the similarities between Lyndon Baines Johnson’s and his efforts
D. support his claim that every reform meets objections in the beginning
[填空题]As President Obama and his critics prepare for the climactic battle over healthcare, they face a seeming paradox: Millions of Americans say the system they depend on for everything from routine flu shots to life-saving heart surgery is broken and needs fixing. Yet most Americans also say they’re pretty satisfied with their healthcare. The explanation for the apparent contradiction— and a big reason healthcare has turned into such an incendiary fight—is that it’s not one crisis, it’s a bundle of crises. And, since most people are fairly healthy most of the time, problems can go largely unnoticed until calamity strikes.
Medical costs are spiraling up much faster than inflation or personal income, for instance, but the impact is cushioned for a majority of Americans because they still have job-related insurance. While employers are shifting more and more of the premiums’ cost onto workers, the increases are gradual and lumped in with other payroll deductions. For many, it’s only af
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Senator Barack Obama likes to joke that the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination has been going on so long, babies have been born, and they’ re already walking and talking. That’s nothing. The battle between the sciences and the humanities has been going on for so long, its early participants have stopped walking and talking, because they’re already dead.
It’s been some 50 years since the physicist-turned-novelist C. P. Snow delivered his famous "Two Cultures" lecture at the University of Cambridge, in which he decried the "gulf of mutual incomprehension", the "hostility and dislike" that divided the world’s "natural scientists", its chemists, engineers, physicists and biologists, from its "literary intellectuals", a group that, by Snow’s reckoning, included pretty much everyone who wasn’t a scientist. His critique set off a frenzy of desperation that continues to this
A. is ambitious enough to create new discipline
B. will gain popularity for Binghamton University
C. can bridge the gap between sciences and human
D. is a combination of sciences and arts
