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This is a ranking simply of the online schools with the most graduates in the field of Family, Consumer & Human Sciences. While there are no quality metrics included in the ranking, there are advantages to picking popular programs. A program with lots of graduates and current students usually means a program that has earned a good reputation in the field. It also indicates a school that may devote a lot of resources to that specific program.
In 2017 a total of 4,724 students from 54 different online schools graduated with a Family, Consumer & Human Sciences degree.
The average graduating class was about 87, with some programs graduating as few as 2, and some with as many as 352.
Review the list below to find those schools with the most popular programs in the field, based on the number of annual graduates.
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I hope you had a great Memorial Day holiday. We should be so proud. Nearly every town and village in Bureau County held Memorial Day services. I think that's a great testament to who we are. On behalf of the Bureau County Republican, thanks to everyone who helped honor our nation's veterans. I'd also like to pay a special tribute to the young people who participated in Memorial Day services. I am very proud of you.
What about this warmer weather? I just about started complaining last week about being hot, but then I remembered our winter. That shut me up very quickly.
You know summer is upon us, when the bugs return. If you know me, you also know I'm not a fan of bug or anything that skitters. I had a fairly violent argument with a May Bug the other night on my backyard deck. (OK, I know we call them June Bugs, but my Aunt Myrna said you can't call them June Bugs until it's June. Until then, they have to be called May Bugs. I have no idea if that is true or not, but it sounds good to me.)
Anyway, this May Bug was relentless as he bounced off my brick home a bazillion times — no worse for wear. Seeking the light on my backyard deck, which by the way is right next to my sliding glass door, it was obvious he was attempting to keep me from re-entering my home. It was around 11 p.m., and if any of my neighbors were outside, I'm sure they wondered what the shrieking was all about, but this bug was dive-bombing me like something from a World War II movie. There's more to the story, but you obviously get the idea. Welcome to summer!
Congratulations are in order to the graduates of Bureau Valley, Crossroads, DePue, LaMoille, Ohio and Princeton high schools. Check out our photos on Page 2. A lot of very happy graduates accepted their hard-earned diplomas this past weekend, and on behalf of the BCR, we applaud you and wish you the very best of luck on your continuing journey through life. And regardless of where you go, may you always remember your Bureau County roots.
There have been some great news stories in the BCR recently. There are always too many to mention every one, but here are a few that really caught my eye:
• Twenty-three LaMoille High School sophomores recently published their own book, "Same Book, Different Stories: Short Stories from the Class of 2016." Wow! What an exceptional accomplishment! And another round of applause to teacher Barb Zimmerman who orchestrated this six-month long project.
• Another great education story revolves around the middle school students at Malden Grade School, who have been working on a class-wide service learning project. The students, under the direction of teacher Barb Schlund, made quilt squares, which were sewn together to make blankets and delivered to area human and health service providers. Not only did the students get the opportunity to learn how to sew on a sewing machine, they also got an underlying lesson in benevolence.
• I don't know if you had the opportunity to ready Jessica Carlson's ag column on Saturday, but I have to tell you it was an exceptionally great piece of work. I've been writing columns for 20 years, and Jessica's column was clearly far beyond her seventh-grade years. Clever, well-written, engaging ... I don't mind admitting I got chills when I read it. Way to go, Jessica.
As the end of the school year rolls around, I hope you'll take the time to thank our area school teachers, who have given so much to so many. These folks help to shape our future. Bureau County has many retiring teachers and support staff this year. Your words of thanks and congratulations will mean a lot.
Have a safe week. Take time for you, and remember ... you are important to me and the BCR.


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I just want to tell the AJ community that the #1 Team on Emberstorm -
wintraded to rank1 with their boost teams-
http://eu.battle.net... Bombengürtelx/
Ryle deleted the 2. Team, which was full of paying customers to not make it that obvious!
Here is the german topic made by Silencxz, i just found some time and thought about translating it to English for the AJ Community!
There is the Ladder before the wintrade Action -->
Like everybody on blackrock knows that the feral/warrior teams are getting accountplayed by the #1 Team! So i was wondering why they was in arena with the boost team and their main team ? ->
Okay, they tryd to get #1 on the legit way but lost 3 Times, then they started to wintrade !!! As you can see on the following screens
http://postimage.org...h5zvzia8h/full/ 3 Wins? Who they play against ? just have a look
And again..... http://postimage.org...90tglw171/full/
And the third time... http://postimage.org...cn1fj7wi9/full/ -->out of arena...http://postimage.org...r3bnknxfb/full/
This was the last Wintrade Game with the 1.Boost Team and somehow the shaman logged in and out all the time, to manipulate the ques and have a 100% chance to meet each other i guess.
I did a lvl 1 character to not be obviously stalking with my main, half an hour later they've been in arena again, i wasn't able to find the 6. (shaman) because they switched him to not make it that obvius
And again that 3 in the business of wintrading , with a new name
Here is the Team:
" BUT WE KEEP ON GOING " ... http://postimage.org...hibvytwqd/full/
20 Minutes later the shaman from the first team joined the 2. Team ->>
The one boostteam which included PAYING CUSTOMERS JUST GOT DELETED!! : http://postimage.org...m3azl3h87/full/
Thats it, i really hope Blizzard is doing something against it and i would love to see the community keep on reporting that guys, just write an email to [email protected] with that screenshots and a small description!!
For fairplay!!!
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Paul Thurrot, everybody's favourite
Microsoft Apple Microsoft zealot, writes on his webpage: "It's funny. Apple calls Microsoft a copy-cat, and yet, I feel like I've seen some of these features somewhere before. Many of the features, however, are just sad. Is this really the best they had to show off right now?" El Reg agrees with him, saying: "On the basis of the evidence so far the sixth release of Mac OS X is, to put it bluntly, a point release." Update by ELQ: A related editorial by Wired.


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The Markham Centre Development Principles, created in 2002, set the standard.
Markham Centre will set a new standard for 'smart growth' that:
The City of Markham has made fundamental choices in its management of growth. While historically built through sequential expansions as growth demanded, a conscious decision was made that continuing the outward expansion would not provide for the protection of the rural and environmental lands and quality of life that Markham residents have come to expect. A fundamental decision was made to manage sustainable growth through limited outward expansion and inward growth into a Centre which would support intensive activity at a scale that will sustain rapid transit.
Markham Centre is centrally located and will embody new urbanism principles to deliver:


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Verlyn Klinkenborg And I Have The Same Favorite On-Ramp
by Josh K-sky on May.10, 2010, under Los Angeles
Verlyn Klinkenborg's latest editorial-page impressionistic L.A. vignette has some scratching heads, but the paean to Inscrutable L.A. deserves praise for limning the National on-ramp.
Not once, but twice, does Klinkenborg allude to what must be an obsession with L.A.'s most awesome freeway entrance
The iconic glimpses don't help me in my quest — not the sudden view of the Hollywood sign I get from the Hollywood Freeway, not the view of downtown almost floating in the sunset from Pasadena. Every now and then, I turn a corner and think that something essential is about to be revealed. The feeling intensifies all the way up Venice Boulevard into Culver City, and then I'm on National taking one of those curious hidden freeway entrances and suddenly the feeling vanishes.
If I had an extra lifetime to live, I'd live it here. I don't mean one lifetime lived, in the usual way. I mean a lifetime living within a block or two of the insurance shop on Venice Boulevard with the wrap-around neon facade. Another watching cars turn off National onto the 10. Another sitting by Santa, seeing who comes and goes. Perhaps then I could grasp what always escapes me here. Then I'd know whether it was worth looking for in the first place.
(Emphasis mine.)
To anyone still innocent of the on-ramp in question, this must look like an odd refrain for such a short column. It's not. The National on-ramp is wicked cool, Airwolf cool.
Your approach disorients you three times over: once, by virtue of being anywhere near the baffling Overland/National/Motor/Palms mess, where streets turn into one another and then back, confounding any sense of gridded stability; twice, because the on-ramp is actually on Manning, not National; thrice, because you are trying to get on the freeway going east, but you must drive west (technically northwest) alongside the westbound 10 to approach it.
It doesn't look like much — you're going up a hill into a residential area, and then —
boom! you're making a 90-degree turn on a flyover, crossing eight lanes of traffic and swooping down onto the 10 East.
Good call, Klink.


text: Based at the Presidio in San Francisco, Buffalo Soldiers were assigned to Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks where they patrolled the backcountry, built trails, stopped poaching, and otherwise served in the roles later assumed by National Park rangers. In observance of Black History Month, Ranger Frederik Penn will discuss the importance of the Buffalo Soldiers to the management of the National Parks and to the legacy of African Americans in the post-Civil War era. In this presentation, he will display historic photographs and explore this multi-layered and multi-faceted, yet seldom told, story.


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WikiToPdf was developed based on the work of coderanger and athomas. WikiToPdf combines the functionality of CombineWikiPlugin and PageToPdfPlugin on only one plugin and allows one to setup a template file used to generate the PDF file with a cover and a licence page, for example.
At the end of each wiki page there is a link named WikiToPdf and works like athomas PageToPdfPlugin plugin but takes into account the parameters on trac.ini (see bellow) and passes them to htmldoc.
Alternatively, it's possible to select one or more wiki pages and generate one single PDF file just like coderanger work with a cover and a licence from a template file. This feature also takes into account the parameters on trac.ini.
For now, only those users with WIKI_ADMIN permission can combine wiki pages on one single file. It's possible to define values to title, subtitle, file version and date that are used on the PDF file.
WikiToPdf also adds support to some wiki formatting that didn't work with CombineWikiPlugin neither PageToPdfPlugin:
- Tables (||Table||) - Images ([[Image(wiki:Page:image.png, 100%)]]) - Code blocks ({{{ code }}})
To use WikitoPdf plugin you need to install Htmldoc (http://www.htmldoc.org).
Combining wiki pages:
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[components] wikitopdf.* = enabled [wikitopdf] # base_dir is the Apache DocumentRoot, It is need to get PDF files with images. base_dir = /path/to/DocumentRoot # path to folder used to get a cover files. pathtocover = /path/to/cover [wikitopdf-admin] # HTMLDOC options. See the link above. size = A4 right = 1.5cm left = 1.5cm top = 1.5cm bottom = 1.5cm no-links = None toctitle = Summary numbered = None linkstyle = plain header = l footer = .r1 logoimage = /path/to/header-logo.png [wikitopdf-page] # HTMLDOC options. See the link above. size = A4 right = 1.5cm left = 1.5cm top = 1.5cm bottom = 1.5cm no-links = None linkstyle = plain header = l footer = .r1 logoimage = /path/to/header-logo.png
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - WizAnt tutoring Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in WizAnt tutoring Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General North America Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message AdelaJoined: 30 Jul 2006Posts: 40 Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 10:35 am Post subject: WizAnt tutoring Has anyone had experience with this online agency? Back to top ErdnussJoined: 12 Feb 2012Posts: 12 Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 9:37 pm Post subject: One of my friends have been using it for a few months now. It seems like a reliable system for bringing tutors and students together, but there are a few downsides: 1) Students must use the WyzAnt payment system, and direct payment is discouraged. For your first 5 lessons (I believe), WyzAnt takes about half of your pay, and about 15% for all subsequent lessons. 2) Students are able to leave feedback on their tutors, but only if they've paid through the online system. 3) If you live in a big urban area, then you'll likely find many people to tutor. Mid-sized cities and small towns will have few, if any, available listings. 4) In my friend's experience, a lot of the listings include students with learning disorders and other disabilities, so if you don't have training or work experience with this population, then it could be frustrating for you and the parents. Good luck Back to top myownwomanJoined: 26 Feb 2011Posts: 25Location: CA Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 11:27 pm Post subject: I am a proud tutor for Wyzant.com! I am currently tutoring a student in reading and writing. I set the hourly pay for myself and that's how much I am paid from the student. Application process to be a tutor on Wyzant.com: 1) Apply online (education and work experience) 2) Wait about 24-48 hours for approval to tutor 3) Once approved you will be given a username and password 4) Pass tests to be certified 5) Apply for tutoring jobs or have students contact you 6) Tutor away! I can see myself doing this for a long time. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General North America Forum All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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This Week In Island History
Week of June 14
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
100 years ago
From the Newport Journal, June 14, 1912
The Jamestown Club has opened for the season.
Hotel guests are arriving daily, but not as fast as would have been the case had the battleship fleet remained in the bay. Still, by the first of July, the hotels will be comfortably filled.
The weekly shoot of the Diamond Spring Rifle Club was won by Stubbs Friday evening. He also shot the high string and took the bronze bar for the best handicap score. Eleven men faced the target.
75 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, June 10, 1937
The Peckham Wrecking Company of Newport commenced this morning the work of razing the John Price Wetherill cottage on the Cliff Walk.
From the Newport Daily News, June 11, 1937
Repairs are being made to the Tefft "Castle" on Cole Street.
From the Newport Daily News, June 12, 1937
The 65-pound bass caught last season by Arthur S. Clarke has been mounted and is now being exhibited for a few days while awaiting the completion of a show case by the Ferry Company. It will be on display on the west ferry steamer.
50 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, June 11, 1962
Two field days were held at the Jamestown School last week for grades four through eight with Dale Brown, fifth- grade teacher, general chairman. From the Newport Daily News,
June 12, 1962
Town Solicitor Daniel J. Murray of Jamestown last night told the Town Council that he had written to the General Services Administration of the town's interest in acquiring both the Prospect Hill military reservation of 17.97 acres for recreational and monumental purposes, and the Hull Cove military reservation of 1.85 acres for a nuclear fallout shelter. The two reservations have been declared surplus property by the government.
Mackerel Cove beach will open officially on June 16 at 10 a.m.
The toll on the Jamestown Bridge for automobiles will drop from 65 cents to 60 cents on July 1. The toll reduction is the first since 1958 when the toll was lowered from 70 to 65 cents. The toll collectors will receive $2.25 an hour, a raise of 11 cents per hour for a 40-hour week.
Thirty-two eighth-grade Jamestown boys and girls received diplomas from Frederick C. Clarke Jr., chairman of the school board, at graduation exercises at the school last night.
Jamestown's tax rate remains at $18.10 per $1,000, as predicted by town officials.
25 years ago From the Newport Daily News,
June 11, 1987
The House Finance Committee voted 9-5 Wednesday to name the new bridge, "The Jamestown-Verrazzano Bridge." From the Newport Daily News,
June 13, 1987
After lengthy and eloquent debate on historical, ethnic and practical merits, the House voted convincingly to name the new span being built over Narragansett Bay the Jamestown-Verrazzano Bridge. State representatives voted 65-25 for the new hyphenated name Friday, after about an hour of heated argument that at times appeared to be a battle between the northern and southern halves of the state. From the Newport Daily News,
June 16, 1987
State transportation officials came to Jamestown Monday night seeking town support for the cross-island connector road alignment. They were met by a stony wall of discontent.
15 years ago
From the Jamestown Press,
June 12, 1997
A public work session on how best to use the second floor of the town-owned country club will be held Monday, June 16. Since the town bought the golf course in 1986, the country club's second floor has always been a restaurant, but none were successful until Chuck Masso, now the owner of Chopmist Charlie's, took over operation of the country club restaurant.
Town Council members elected May 7 got a tour of town facilities. (They learned of problems with town facilities: water in basement of town hall, lack of storage space, and a leaking roof at the library.)
10 years ago
From the Jamestown Press,
June 13, 2002
The Town Council Monday approved, with relatively minor changes, the latest update for the new Comprehensive Community Plan, but rejected proposed zoning for a public facility zone. The rejection leaves Lot 47, the controversial intended site for the town highway barn, as a rural-residential zoned property.
Commemoration ceremonies for completion of the Conanicut Battery restoration project are planned for Saturday, June 29.


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You can download this audiofile and use it to practise for the upcoming S1 Listening test.
You can listen to each question as often as you need to until you get the answer. On the day of the test, you will hear each question three times.
Your teacher should have given you a question sheet with answers.
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Obituary published Feb. 13, 2013 in The Mexico Ledger
Donald Raymond Meine, 59 of Mexico, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 at Audrain Medical Center.
Graveside services will be held at the City of Warrenton Cemetery at a later date.
Donald was born March 4, 1953 in Mexico, the son of Lester Harold Meine and Mary Lee McAllister.
He loved to ride bikes, take pictures and especially loved old cars.
Survivors include two sisters, Carol Palumbo and husband, August of Spanish Fort, Ala. and Patti Korsmeyer and husband, Mark of Parkville; one brother, David Meine of Blue Springs; and many nieces, nephews, aunts and uncles.
David was preceded in death by his father, Lester Harold Meine; his mother, Mary Lee Hinton; and his step-father, Blake Hinton.
Condolences at www.arnoldfh.com.


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19th St. Oakland Station
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Welcome to 19th St. Oakland
19th Street Station is in the heart of Uptown Oakland near the historic Paramount Theater on Broadway.
Latest News
Lines Serving this Station
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- Richmond Warm Springs/South Fremont
- Richmond Daly City/Millbrae
Real Time Departures
Next trains departing from 19th St. Oakland Station:
There's no parking at 19th Street Station. The closest station with parking is MacArthur Station.
Bike Racks: Yes
Bike racks are available at most BART stations. Please review the BART Bike Rules.
Bike Station: Yes
FREE secure bike parking is available at several BART stations. Visit the Bike Section for more Bike Station information.
Bike Lockers: 8 electronic bicycle lockers managed by City of Oakland. To gain access to these lockers, see bikelink.org. For more information, contact the City of Oakland at email@example.com or (510) 238-3983.
Connecting Transit Routes
19th St. Oakland City Center Station is served by AC Transit, the Free B Downtown Oakland Shuttle, and Greyhound.
The Greyhound bus terminal is located three blocks down 20th Street at San Pablo Avenue.
Need help planning a trip?
For a personalized trip plan with BART and connecting transit, call the BART Transit Information Center.
Connecting Transit Trip Planner
Elevator Locations / Accessible Path
Learn more about the accessible path for this station.
Learn more about planning activity at this station and throughout Alameda County.
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My nano-sumo bot project is still going. I've had a number of attempts at getting under the 1 cubic inch size barrier. And it looks a lot closer now. I just discovered some 402 sized SMD LED's from LUMEX. So I did a Atmega8 (MLF formfactor) PCB using 402 sized parts on it as well. It eeks out a little bit more space on the PCB. I still have a 603 sized component PCB just in case.
Now if I can only find some small rechargable Lithium-ion battery cells small enough to work. using non-rechargable cells sort of sucks as they are very expensive. I see tantalizing pictures, but no one selling them yet. Or at least selling in small quantities.


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Dr_Tony wrote:I usually try to avoid that shop, but it's hard when it's the closest one, ie walking distance. In Hamilton today they still had a stack of those BSOs, reduced of course. Plus large plasma or lcd tvs that they can't shift either. Did buy some of the socks on clearout, avoided the gloves though. They only had full fingered ones left and they look like something to go to the snow in, not ride a bike.
Last winter, the early morning rides were so cold with the moist, chilly air that I was wearing an old pair of SKI-GLOVES to keep my fingers warm. The rides at 11 am were not much warmer! I was also wearing a flying jacket and a scarf (should have got some leather goggles to complete the look!)


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Career Paths in Psychology: Where Your Degree Can Take You
Robert J. Sternberg
American Psychological Association, 2007 - Business & Economics - 376 pages
Career Paths in Psychology is a must-have resource for students contemplating a career in psychology, for psychologists considering switching between areas of psychology, and for professionals thinking of switching to psychology from another field. In this comprehensive anthology, authors selected for their distinction in their chosen careers offer their professional - and personal - perspectives on 19 different graduate-level careers in psychology. Few fields of study offer more career opportunities than does psychology, and readers will find thoughtful discussions, leavened with tips and insights gained from personal experience, on the full range, including (to name only a few) academia, clinical psychology, health and school psychology, clinical neuropsychology, and government service. Each chapter discusses the nature of the career, its advantages and disadvantages, how to prepare for it, typical activities, ranges of financial compensation, opportunities for employment, and the personal attributes needed for success in the career. ""Day in the life"" discussions give readers a glimpse into the prosaic realities, challenges, and rewards of each career that the lab or lecture hall rarely provides. Reprinted eight times since the publication of the first edition in 1997, ""Career Paths in Psychology"" is recognized as the ""go-to"" sourcebook for anyone seeking a candid portrait of different careers in this ever-changing field. The second edition has been expanded (discussions of five new careers added) and updated to reflect current trends and changes in the field.
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text: Flash update: trade compliance International Trade Alert Share this 31 MAR 2017 By: John Forrest Chloe Barker This week has seen two important developments in relation to the UK and EU legal and regulatory framework governing trade with Iran and Russia: The European Court of Justice (the ECJ) has clarified a number of points in relation to EU sanctions measures targeting Russia The UK Export Control Organisation (the ECO) has announced the withdrawal of the Iran List Russia In July 2014, the European Union adopted sanctions measures in response to Russia's actions to destabilise the situation in Ukraine. These measures impose restrictions on certain financial transactions, restrict the access of certain Russian entities to capital markets, restrict the export of certain sensitive goods and technologies to Russia and prohibit the provision of services for certain oil projects in Russia. This week the ECJ answered a number of questions in relation to these sanctions measures in the course of a judicial review challenging the validity of the measures brought by Rosneft (the Russian oil and gas company) against the UK Government and Financial Conduct Authority. One of the key challenges faced by companies navigating the restrictions introduced under the measures has been the lack of clarity as to what is and is not covered by the legislation and therefore what commercial activities in relation to Russia are and are not allowed. Guidance issued by the European Commission and the UK Government has assisted to an extent, but uncertainty has remained. The ECJ has said that the fact that some of the provisions of the measures may be subject to clarification, does not make them invalid for lack of certainty or prevent member states from imposing criminal penalties for breach of the measures. Full compliance with the measures therefore remains key to avoid criminal, or indeed wider reputational penalties, for being found to have acted in breach. The ECJ was also asked to consider whether the restrictions on the provision of certain so termed "financial assistance", should be interpreted as including the processing of payments by a bank or other financial institution. The court held that the term "financial assistance " does not include the processing of a payment by a bank or financial institution. Therefore, on a practical basis, per the ECJ judgment, a bank processing a payment in relation to the supply of so termed "Annex II" items (certain items that can be used in Russia's oil sector) to or for use in Russia, does not require a licence to authorise the processing of payments related to the supply of the items. This is position is contrary to prior guidance on this point issued by the European Commission. For completeness, the actual supply of any Annex II items does still require a licence. Read the full judgement of the Court. Iran The UK Government announced this week that the Iran List published by the ECO has been withdrawn following the suspension of some UK and EU sanctions measures under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (the JCPOA). The Iran List was compiled and published by the ECO to provide guidance for UK companies on Iranian entities that the ECO were concerned may use or divert products exported from the UK for a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) end use. EU and UK legislation (the EU Dual Use Regulation and the UK Export Control Order 2008 respectively) provide that an export licence is required to authorise an export if an exporter has been informed by the Government, is otherwise aware, or has grounds for suspecting, that goods which it intends to export may be intended in whole or in part for WMD purposes. This is known as an "end use" or "catch all" control and applies to all goods exported from the UK, not only goods normally subject to export controls. In announcing the withdrawal of the Iran List the ECO stated that the UK Government "fully supports expanding our trading relationship with Iran and encourages UK businesses to take advantage of the commercial opportunities that arise". Companies should be aware however that the end use control still applies both in relation to Iran and other third countries. Appropriate due diligence should therefore be undertaken and recorded in relation to the end use and end user of company products to manage the risk that the products may be diverted to a prohibited end user or for a prohibited end use. The ECO also off an end user advice service, which can be accessed via the ECO SPIRE export licensing system. See our earlier update including more details on the JCPOA, the sanctions measures that have been suspended and those which remain in force. As advised by the ECO, "It is important to take appropriate due diligence measures before engaging in any activity. Iran will remain a challenging place to do business so if in doubt exporters should seek legal advice". DLA Piper's Global Trade & Government Affairs team DLA Piper's Global Trade team is made up former regulators and compliance specialists, meaning we have a unique insight into compliance challenges and regulatory enforcement activity. We have extensive experience in advising and representing a wide range of global companies on trade related compliance issues, including export control regulations, sanctions compliance, transactions involving countries and entities subject to economic sanctions and trade embargoes and customs/import issues. Legal 500 2016 describes our highly rated team as "responsive, helpful and pragmatic". 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Exploring Solutions to Our Long-Term Fiscal Challenges
Statement of Robert L. Bixby
Executive Director, Concord Coalition
Co-Chairs Bowles and Simpson and members of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, thank you for inviting me to discuss solutions to the nation's long-term fiscal challenge. It is an important issue for the future health of the economy, generational equity, and the ability of all Americans to enjoy rising standards of living.
I am here representing The Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to strengthening the nation's long-term economic prospects through sound and sustainable fiscal policy. Concord's co-chairs are former senators, Warren B. Rudman (R-NH) and Bob Kerrey (D-NE). They, along with Concord's President former Commerce Secretary Peter G. Peterson and our nationwide membership, have consistently urged Washington policymakers to produce a credible plan for long-term fiscal sustainability.
In that regard, let me express The Concord Coalition's strong appreciation and support for your commitment to work in a bipartisan way on meaningful solutions. We hope it will set a positive example and result in recommendations that will be adopted by the Obama Administration and Congress.
At your request, my testimony today will address how the commission should approach its task, what should be targeted to reach the goal of balancing the budget excluding interest costs by 2015, and an illustrative plan for doing so. I will also discuss key aspects of the long-term challenge and potential strategies for dealing with it.
I. Overview
All Americans, regardless of political party or ideological perspective, want to leave a more prosperous, secure and compassionate nation to future generations. Yet, we are putting our nation's future at risk with an unsustainable fiscal policy that promises more debt than prosperity, a level of taxation that we would not tolerate for ourselves, and diminished prospects for families to enjoy a higher standard of living.
Beyond fiscal imbalance, today's budget policies threaten to place ever-tighter constraints on the ability of future generations to determine their own priorities or to meet challenges that cannot be foreseen. As the share of federal resources pledged to retirement and health care benefits grows, it will leave shrinking amounts for all other purposes. Generational fairness requires a major course correction.
The real choices require scaling back future health care and retirement promises, raising revenues to pay for them, or some combination of both. This is not a matter of ideology. It is basic math. Americans may have very different views about whether it would be better if the federal government were both taxing and spending at 18 percent of GDP or taxing and spending at 25 percent of GDP. No one, however, would advocate that the government tax at 18 percent of GDP and spend at 25 percent. This would certainly shatter the economy. Yet, this is the future we are now embarked upon.
While there is no quick fix, there are things we can begin doing now that will result in a much brighter picture for future generations. These do not include "slashing" entitlements or "killing the economy with tax increases." They do require that everything be on the table.
A sustainable deficit reduction effort will require all parties to compromise. Starkly partisan budget proposals may appeal to true believers and party loyalists, but a plan to reduce the deficit is unlikely to succeed over the long-term without sufficient political will to enforce it. A successful plan must be capable of resisting pressure to undo the tough choices it contains. The best way to ensure that a plan can stand up over time is to infuse it with broad bipartisan support from the beginning.
II. Approaching the task
The executive order creating this commission gives you two very ambitious tasks -- find a way to balance the budget excluding interest on the debt by 2015, and meaningfully improve the long-term fiscal outlook.
I have three general suggestions for how the commission should approach these tasks.
· Do not feel constrained by "political realities."
· Focus on solutions to the long-term structural imbalance even if the 2015 goal proves elusive.
· Do as much as you can within your limited resources to educate the public about the magnitude of the problem and engage them in the search for solutions.
Political realities
Political realities got us into this problem. It is all too easy to promise spending increases and tax cuts. By contrast, your fiscal goals require substantial spending cuts from projected levels, equivalent tax increases, or -- most likely -- a combination of both.
Neither party wants to be the first to propose such tough choices out of fear that the other side will attack them. Similarly, neither side wants to discuss possible compromises of their own priorities out of fear that the other side will take the concessions and run. Unfortunately, these fears are justified. Yet if the commission succumbs to these fears, you will not be able to produce meaningful solutions. What you need to do is "bend the curve" of political reality. The status quo won't do.
Long-term focus
While I agree with the 2015 goal as a substantive matter, I worry that it could become a distraction by, in effect, engaging the commission in work traditionally handled by the congressional budget committees. In my view, the commission's time would be better spent working on solutions to our long-term structural deficit. Achieving a specific five-year goal, while important, is something that should be done through the regular budget process. What the regular budget process doesn't do, however, is force attention on the long-term structural imbalance.
The value of this commission is that it provides a rare opportunity to break out of the "regular order," and look at those options that will have their greatest effect beyond the five-year window.
The President should be commended for establishing a five-year deficit reduction goal in his budget. Congress should work to achieve his goal, or even improve upon it, as Senator Conrad did in the Senate Budget Committee's budget resolution. For the commission, however, it would be far better to spend its limited time and political will on shoring up the unsustainable long-term outlook. Opportunities such as this don't come around very often.
Public engagement
Because the meaningful options are politically difficult, the active involvement of the American people is critical. Without greater understanding of the problem among the public, community leaders, business leaders and home state media, elected leaders are unlikely to break out of their comfortable partisan talking points -- and unlikely to agree on solutions.
In that regard, you may be interested in the experience of The Fiscal Wake-Up Tour, a joint public awareness initiative by The Concord Coalition, the Budgeting for National Priorities Project at The Brookings Institution, The Heritage Foundation, and The Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
For almost six years we have traveled the country explaining in plain terms why budget analysts of diverse perspectives are increasingly alarmed by the nation's long-term fiscal outlook. Our emphasis is on the key areas in which we have found consensus, such as:
· The overall dimensions of the problem
· The nature of the realistic trade-offs that must be confronted in finding solutions
· The adverse and inequitable consequences for future generations if we fail to make serious changes, sooner rather than later
Members of the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour do not necessarily agree on the ideal levels of spending, taxes and debt, but we do agree on the following key points:
· Current fiscal policy is unsustainable.
· There are no free lunch solutions, such as cutting waste, fraud, and abuse, or growing our way out of the problem.
· The best way to make the hard choices is through a bipartisan process with no preconditions.
· Public engagement and understanding is vital in finding solutions.
· This is not about numbers. It is a moral issue.
Our experience is that when audiences are told the facts, and shown that if they demand their "rights" to programs or policies it will have damaging economic effects to other groups or generations represented in the audience, they begin to accept the need for tradeoffs.
In addition to the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour, we have been working with Public Agenda and ViewPoint Learning on a project designed to provide insight into how attitudes evolve as people discuss difficult trade-offs with regard to long-term fiscal policy.
A report issued in September 2008 made the following observations:
· The public is strongly averse to big increases in the size of the national debt and, with the right kind of leadership, is prepared to accept sacrifices to avoid it.
· For most people, the overriding concern is not resistance to taxes but a profound lack of trust in government. People are willing to pay for what they want so long as they can be satisfied that government will spend the money wisely and for the purposes intended.
· Americans are willing to make changes in entitlements, but again on condition that trust and accountability exist.
· While there is continued strong support for defense spending, it is accompanied by the widespread perception that funds are misallocated and often wasted.
· Americans want to be engaged in addressing these issues and are frustrated by the lack of engagement that contributes to their mistrust of government.
These findings are consistent with the results of The Concord Coalition's Fiscal Stewardship Project -- which organized citizen advisory councils in cities across the country to develop solutions to the nation's fiscal challenges -- and the findings are consistent with the results from the National Town Meeting conducted in 60 cities on June 26, 2010 by the nonpartisan organization AmericaSpeaks.
III. The 2015 Goal
As noted above, I believe that the 2015 goal must be thought of as a checkpoint on the road to the longer-term goal of fiscal sustainability. It is important to view the 2015 goal in context. Options that may achieve this goal may do little to change the structural deficit, and yet some options that may meaningfully improve the structural deficit may do little to improve the outlook in 2015.
To the extent possible, the options you select to meet the 2015 goal should also be capable of producing savings beyond the five-year window. This would be aided, in part, by the reduction in projected interest costs that comes from near-term savings. However, even aggressive near-term savings would be overwhelmed by structural imbalances unless those imbalances are themselves addressed in the near term.
Social Security is a good example. For the most part, cost reductions in this program will need to be phased-in over many years to give people time to adjust their work and savings plans. It is hard to imagine any big savings from this program within the next five years. Immediate payroll tax increases would boost government revenues and improve the trust fund balance, but unless they were phased-in to meet benefit obligations the extra money would be spent on other programs. In effect, we would be using Social Security payroll taxes to reduce the deficit -- a result that would surely cause further confusion and resentment.
Illustrative Path
One can look at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) budget baseline and find an obvious path for tax and spending policy that gets us to the goal of primary budget balance by 2015 -- as revenues and spending, not counting interest, both equal 19.7 percent of GDP (leaving a 2.6 percent of GDP deficit). Given the current, dramatic levels of deficits, this would be a reasonable outcome.
The discretionary spending baseline from CBO is actually higher than that of the President's budget with its three-year freeze of non-security discretionary spending. It is also higher than the Senate Budget Committee's draft budget. All of these show spending falling to approximately a full percentage point of GDP below the average since 1980. Cutting discretionary spending further would be quite difficult, both because drastic cuts in short-term spending during a fragile economic recovery are unwise, and because there just isn't enough discretionary spending to make a big difference when looking at ways to reach the short-term budget goal while also attacking the long-term spending problem. As mentioned above, the mandatory spending programs are the long-term problem, and such cuts would have to be phased in and thus are not able to do major heavy lifting in the near-term.
That leaves us with tax policy. Sticking to the CBO current-law baseline on taxes, 19.7 percent of GDP, gets the budget deficit to the commission's target. Legislatively, that represents the easiest option, as policymakers simply need to do nothing and let current law play out.
However, that does not mean current law represents the most desirable policy path to achieve the baseline level of revenues. If reverting to the pre-2001 era tax policy (with its higher marginal tax rates) at the beginning of 2011 is deemed undesirable for political reasons, or out of economic concern for raising marginal tax rates during the early stages of economic recovery, tax policy could be reformed to achieve the same revenue levels without raising marginal tax rates.
The commission might find fertile common ground on steps to improve the tax code in ways that would increase efficiency and thus increase revenues. A thorough scrubbing of the system to identify preferences that serve no compelling use or that could be altered in a resetting of priorities is long overdue.
The fact that the commission's short-term goal is to achieve a lower deficit by 2015 and not sooner suggests a tax policy strategy that could acknowledge the concern of many economists about the dangers of "unwinding" our currently stimulative fiscal stance too quickly. The 2001 and 2003 tax cuts that President Obama has proposed to permanently extend could instead be extended only temporarily. If done for one or two years, this would be long enough not just to allow for a more solid economic recovery, but also long enough to develop a more fundamental reform of the federal tax system that could more efficiently achieve current-law revenue levels by 2015.
This would provide an opportunity to enact a tax policy that meets the commission's 2015 goal, while earning bipartisan support, while also building a tax system capable of remaining adequate and economically efficient over the longer term -- boosting our chances for economic growth and a more sustainable fiscal future.
IV. The Long-term Structural Deficit
Getting the short-term deficit under control is only the first step. Even with a near-term deficit reduction plan, fiscal policy would remain unsustainable over the long-term. The structural imbalance between future benefit promises for retirement and health care programs and the revenues projected to pay for them must be addressed head-on.Automatic spending growth
The primary sources of the nation's long-range fiscal strain are the rising costs of health care and retirement programs. Thus, the most effective long-range solutions would be those that constrain the growth of these programs. This will require difficult choices regarding who should receive benefits, what level of benefits can be provided, and how those benefits should be delivered.
Any strategy for fiscal sustainability will require reform of our two largest and most popular public programs: Social Security and Medicare. Moreover, the choices that are made in this regard should not be made in a vacuum. Social Security and Medicare tax the same people (mostly workers) to pay benefits to the same people (mostly retirees). What matters fiscally and economically is the combined total cost of these programs relative to what we are willing to pay for them and through what taxes, especially in relationship to the rest of our budgeting priorities.
Medicare, Medicaid, and Health Care
Reaching consensus on Medicare and Medicaid reform will be difficult given the recently bruising health care reform debate. The new reform law takes a first step in moving away from the pernicious fee-for-service system, by encouraging experimentation on ways to incentivize groups of providers to make the switch from reimbursement for quantity to reimbursement for quality. The demonstration projects for Accountable Care Organizations (ACO's) to encourage coordinated care, and the bundling of payments for episodes of care, are just some of the ideas that show promise. Ultimately, however, the recent reform legislation does not do enough to change the perverse incentives in the current system.
The commission could help to reinforce the need for building more cost control into government health care programs by recommending a budget for these programs with triggers to keep spending and taxes in line with targeted levels. The most efficient way to enforce this budget is to move more decisively away from fee-for-service reimbursement and toward capitated prepayment.
The commission could also prod members of Congress into expanding the scope of the newly created Medicare commission, or Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). Currently, most physician payments, which are made based on the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula, are exempt from IPAB review and were left untouched by health care reform. This needs to change if we ever hope to reduce the volume and complexity of physician services in order to lower health care costs.
Given the obvious difficulties Congress has had in "fixing" the SGR -- a problem that has severe repercussions for both the President's commission's short term budget goal, and long-term fiscal focus -- it would make sense to pair some permanent (and necessarily costly) fix of the physician payment formula with an agreement to have the IPAB able to recommend and encourage the same type of move away from fee-for-service for physicians that it can for the rest of the health care provider population.
Ultimately, these efforts to reform the large government health care programs will take time and a willingness to continuously revisit and re-envision health care reform. They will also depend in large part on the ability for the government reforms to lead the way towards a more rational and efficient private health care system.
Social Security
Because controlling health benefit spending will be so difficult and to some degree, slow, it is all the more urgent to save what we can in Social Security. Everyone knows what needs to be done, but no one wants to do it. Because the options are well known and have been debated for years, Social Security has gone from being the "third rail of American politics" to the "low hanging fruit." The commission could have a powerful effect by making an obvious recommendation to phase-in benefit reductions and increase dedicated revenues.
The need for Social Security reform is increasingly apparent as the Baby Boomers have begun to receive retirement benefits. No longer can it be argued that excess cash flows from the Social Security payroll tax are making a positive contribution to the federal budget. This year, for the first time since 1983, it is expected that the program will pay out more than it takes in.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that annual Social Security cash deficits will persist through 2013. Small surpluses will then reappear for a couple of years before turning into permanent and growing deficits by 2016. Over the coming 10-year budget window, Social Security will run a cumulative cash deficit of $223 billion, according to the CBO projections.
The emergence of cash flow deficits means that Social Security will need to begin redeeming the special U.S. Treasury bonds that make up its trust fund account.
That, in turn, will put pressure on the rest of the budget because the only choices available will be to cut other spending, raise taxes, or borrow the money (i.e., increase the deficit). What was once considered to be a "long-term" problem has moved to the present. And the longer one looks into the future, the larger the financing challenge becomes. According to the most recent Social Security Trustees report (2009) the annual cash deficit will reach 1.4 percent of GDP by 2035 before leveling off.
Fiscal considerations aside, there is also the issue of public trust in government. The public is increasingly frustrated with the inability or unwillingness of elected leaders to work together on solutions to known problems. Financial markets are also keeping a sharp eye on Washington's ability to manage its deteriorating fiscal condition.
Reaching bipartisan consensus on a plan to shore up Social Security would send a positive signal to both the public and the financial markets. It would say to the public that politicians can work together to solve important problems, and it would say to financial markets that Washington is not paralyzed in the face of mounting debt.
A responsible reform plan must start with cost-saving measures that close Social Security's long-term cash deficit. Several benefit reduction strategies are possible. If the aim of reform is to address Social Security's financing problem at its source -- rising costs -- either adjusting the program for increasing longevity or constraining the growing value of its scheduled monthly benefits are the two most logical solutions. Options that The Concord Coalition has written about favorably include raising the so-called "normal" retirement age and shifting from wage-indexing to price-indexing for calculating new benefits. The most reasonable strategies stress gradualism and fair warning.
Raising taxes is certainly a substantive option, and one that is more fiscally responsible than unlimited borrowing, but choosing to raise future taxes to meet current law costs is similar to borrowing in that it places a claim on the expected earnings of today's children -- in effect confiscating their economic progress. If future generations want to sustain these higher costs it should be their choice, not the consequence of the current generation's refusal to plan responsibly for a known problem.
In Concord's view, payroll tax increases should only be considered within the context of a comprehensive plan that lowers long-term costs. Higher revenues today will do nothing to lessen Social Security's future burden without a mechanism to ensure that the extra money is translated into higher savings and a larger future economy rather than higher spending on current government programs.
In any event, reform options should not focus on trust fund solvency (or "actuarial balance"), but on the projected gap between benefits and dedicated revenues. Trust-fund accounting gives a highly misleading picture of Social Security's impact on the budget and the economy. It counts as assets trillions of dollars of contributions that have never been saved, while failing to count as liabilities trillions of dollars of benefits earned on those contributions but payable beyond the Trustees' time horizon.
What matters fiscally and economically is Social Security's cash balance. Reforms that focus just on actuarial balance may achieve temporary "solvency" but quickly leave the program "insolvent," as new years of large deficits are added to the 75-year average and trust fund surpluses are subtracted. That, in fact, is what happened in the case of the 1983 reforms. By 1985, the trustees estimated that the program was solvent for just 64 years, not 75, and 10 years later solvency was projected for just 35 years. That projection is now down to 28 years (from 2009).
As an example, consider the effect of raising the payroll tax by 2.2 percentage points, from 12.4 percent of taxable payroll to 14.6 percent. In the context of actuarial balance this reform would "fix" the problem. And yet, according to estimates by Social Security's chief actuary, this reform would only add 7 years of cash surpluses and close just 50 percent of the gap in the 75th year.
Meanwhile, nothing would prevent the government from simply spending the new revenues. For the 2.2 percent "solution" to work in something other than an accounting sense, the new money would have to be saved. That means politicians would have to allow the program's extra interest-earning assets to accumulate unspent for decades – a proposition that seems highly unlikely and in any event cannot be guaranteed.
Low taxes encourage economic growth by providing incentives for work, saving and investment. Tax policy, however, should not be considered in isolation. If taxes fall too far below spending for too long, the resulting deficits will eventually cancel out whatever positive effect there may be from low taxes. In the final analysis, revenues must be sufficient to pay for the cost of government. Debt is not a painless alternative to taxation.
The tax burden is ultimately determined by the government's spending commitments and not the other way around. Spending restraint is, of course, the key to maintaining a sustainable fiscal policy and allowing future generations more of a choice in setting their own priorities. But experience has demonstrated that attempting to reduce spending simply by cutting taxes, or "starving the beast," is a failed strategy. While reforms should be enacted that would substantially reduce the long-term growth in federal spending, it is unlikely that any realistic array of reforms will allow an aging society to hold spending to today's level.
The best fiscal policy is one that aims to prevent total spending, taxes or debt from reaching levels that could reduce economic growth and future standards of living. In that regard, The Concord Coalition believes that tax cuts scheduled to expire should not be permanently extended absent a plan for long-term fiscal sustainability.
As mentioned above, committing to only a temporary extension of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts would reduce tax policy's contribution to the currently unsustainable budget outlook. Ideally, a requirement of revenue neutrality relative to the revenue levels under current law, combined with temporary tax cut extensions, would encourage and allow time for fundamental tax reform. Such reform would necessarily include a substantial amount of base broadening to reduce the myriad number of so-called "tax expenditures" that now cost the federal budget more than $1 trillion per year. They are called "tax expenditures" because there is often little to distinguish these tax breaks from spending programs. The credits, deductions and exclusions they provide are, for the most part, disguised federal subsidies designed to encourage certain behavior.
Many economists argue that it would be more efficient and transparent to provide these subsidies directly by writing a check rather than indirectly by funneling them through the tax code. In doing so, their policy rationale and cost would also be subject to more scrutiny since their current "auto pilot" status places them outside of annual review in a way similar to our current mandatory spending programs.
One of the most important and costly tax expenditures the commission should consider tackling is the exclusion of employer-provided health insurance. At a cost of around $250 billion per year, it is actually the single largest tax expenditure in the federal budget. Eliminating or sharply reducing the tax preference for employer-provided health care is widely viewed as one of the most efficient tax policy changes we could make to the federal tax system. It would substantially broaden the tax base and make the tax system more neutral with respect to different forms of income. It would also be a "progressive" tax policy change because currently, the exclusion is more valuable to people in higher tax brackets. Finally, this change has had bipartisan backing in the past.
But perhaps most significantly, reducing the employer-provided health exclusion would have two effects that would work synergistically toward the commission's central goal of achieving fiscal sustainability over the longer term. First, it would reduce the distortion in consumer health care prices and the tax preference's encouragement of excessive demand for health care that leads to higher overall health care system costs. Second, because the cost of the full exclusion is one that grows over time with health costs, reducing or eliminating the exclusion would mean that a tax reform package that starts out revenue neutral relative to current law in 2015 would likely be revenue gaining relative to current law in the years beyond 2015. So this particular tax policy change would be consistent with tax reform, health reform, and fiscal sustainability goals.
There are other ways to broaden the existing income tax base that would likely improve the efficiency of the tax system. The annual collection of "tax extenders" is long overdue for a closer look. While most of them have a laudable purpose, such as encouraging investments in new technologies or in economically distressed areas, Congress has not taken the time to examine whether they have been successful enough to justify raising taxes elsewhere or cutting other spending programs. None of them should be renewed without careful scrutiny and a clear justification.
Eliminating other itemized deductions, converting some deductions into credits, or capping deductions as the President proposed in his budget, could also accomplish the goal of raising revenue without substantial negative impacts on either economic growth or progressivity.
Besides making the existing income tax base broader and more efficient, fundamental and sustainable tax reform may require adopting additional tax bases. Over the years, many tax policy experts, both liberal- and conservative-leaning, have advocated for environmentally-motivated tax policy (such as a carbon tax or auctioned carbon permits system) or a value added tax (VAT) as additional sources of federal revenue that are considered relatively efficient taxes provided they are implemented in their broadest, purest forms with few exemptions. In fact, the advantage of coming up with these taxes is that they are more likely to be simple and broad (and hence efficient) because of our "starting from scratch."
V. Budget process
While budget rules alone will never be able to solve the nation's fiscal problems, enforcement mechanisms can bring greater accountability to the budget process and help provide Members of Congress with the political cover to make tough choices.
Any recommendations you make should be accompanied by a strong enforcement process to ensure that the assumed savings remain on track. The Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (BEA) provides a good example of how process reforms can work with substantive goals to achieve results. This law combined policy changes to the pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) concept for entitlement and tax law, with caps on discretionary spending, which were enforced through sequestration. This year's renewal of statutory PAYGO will help in enforcing changes to entitlement and tax laws, but there is no current process to enforce savings from discretionary programs. In Concord's view, statutory caps, along with sequestration, should be included with your recommendations for discretionary spending.
As noted, the renewal of PAYGO is a positive step. However, it falls short of addressing the central long-term budget challenge, which is constraining the cost of existing entitlement programs. PAYGO requires Congress to offset the cost of new programs or expansions of existing programs. It does not apply to current-law benefits.
In fact, there is nothing in the budget process that requires Congress to review the current-law budget outlook beyond the next ten years, much less take corrective action. The current budget process encourages short-term thinking by focusing on a five or 10-year budget window . Yet, as analysts from all sides generally agree, our truly unsustainable fiscal problem stems from commitments that extend far into the future. A five or 10-year budget window may have been adequate back when most federal spending was appropriated annually. It is insufficient when most of the budget consists of entitlement programs rising on autopilot. It's time to include the long term in the budget process.
You could take a major step in improving the transparency of our future obligations and encourage actions to deal with them by recommending that future budget resolution set targets and estimates of entitlement and tax policy proposals stretching out for at least 40 years.
Congress should establish long-term targets for revenues and outlays by major spending category as part of the annual budget resolution. It should note how major legislative proposals assumed in the resolution would affect these targets and how the targets differ, if at all, from current law as projected by the CBO. Separate targets could be established, as a share of GDP at five-year intervals through 2040, for total revenues, defense spending, domestic discretionary spending, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, other entitlements, and net interest. If the targets differ from current-law projections, CBO could be required to issue a report with an illustrative menu of reform options capable of generating the proposed savings.
For enforcement purposes, triggers could be added that would either trim spending down to the targeted level or raise revenues. A version of this idea was proposed in the "Taking Back Our Fiscal Future" paper which I co-signed along with 15 other colleagues, including commission member Alice Rivlin.
VI. Conclusion
Daunting as the long-term projections are, there is nothing inevitable about a fiscal crisis. The problems we face -- essentially a structural imbalance between what government promises and what it collects in taxes to pay for those promises -- is one that can be cured in a timely way if we begin to address it now. In other words, the solution is in our own hands.
There is no better time to begin such an effort than now. Known dangers should be acknowledged in advance of a crisis and dealt with in a straightforward manner. By all means, we should debate the options and trade-offs. But we must act. Economic growth alone will not be enough to close the gap. Moreover, the sooner action is taken, the more gradual the remedies can be. The political system can adjust to unexpected good news. More problematic are the potentially harsh adjustments of deferring action on bad news projections that prove correct.
Concord's founding Co-Chair former Senator Paul Tsongas (D-MA) said, "The bond between parent and child is nature's strongest. Providing for the well-being of the young is how every generation of Americans undertook their stewardship."
Our time to act as generational stewards is now.


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|July 21, 2012, 06:33 PM
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Sig P-290 Light Primer Strikes HELP!!
I just purchased a Sig P-290 for CCW. I really like this little pistol when it fires. Which brings me to the problem. I am getting light primer strikes. The pistol will not fire more times than it will fire. I am using the TULAMMO and have never had a problem with it in any of my other pistols. I tried some in my Kahr just to see if maybe I got a bad batch of ammo, and they all fired just fine. Anyone have any idea what could be causing this problem? I really don't want to send it to Sig, but I will if I have to. Maybe some of you guys can guide me in the right direction so I won't have to send it off. If I can get it to shoot it will make a nice little ccw pistol. The few times it did fire the trigger was smooth, and it is very accurate for such a small pistol. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
|July 21, 2012, 07:31 PM
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Did you buy the gun new? Have you tried another kind of ammo. sounds like your main spring may be weak or you have something slowing down the firing pin.
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|July 21, 2012, 07:42 PM
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No I bought it slightly used, I wouldn't even have known it was used if my local gun store owner didn't tell me. I mean it has very little use, I haven't seen any wear anywhere you would normally see on an auto. I haven't tried any other ammo yet, I didn't think that would be an issue, but maybe so. But I think it being a Sig it should shoot anything kind of 9mm. I haven't even taken it apart yet, anything I should look for?
|July 21, 2012, 09:19 PM
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First thing I would try is some other ammo. Federal is known for having reasonably soft primers, so try running Federal factory ammo through the gun.
If you still have malfunctions, then it's time to look inside the gun. First, I'd look for any dirt that might be either slowing the firing pin or restricting full movement of same.
Next after that comes issues of weak springs, and for that, you'd have to inquire of Sig what their specs are for their springs.
|July 23, 2012, 09:48 PM
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Thanks for all the help guys. I think I have it figured out. Turn's out it seems to have been the TULAMMO ammo. Although I have used it in my other pistols I have never had a problem with it. Anyway today I bought some Federal 115 gr FMJ. Fired 100 rounds flawlessly. I also shot some other old mixed rounds I had laying around, and they too did fine so for now it looks like it was the TULAMMO. I will shoot some more this weekend and get a least another 100 rounds or more down range before I start carrying it. Again thanks for all the help.
|August 9, 2012, 10:25 PM
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This is a known issue with the P290. So much so that they redesigned it as the 290RS (restrike)
Mine was back to the factory 5 times in 2 months and they finally replaced the gun, then it too started having light strikes recently. If it happens again send it back to Sig
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The chancellor of Winston-Salem State University said Friday that the university will revise a new policy that limits unscheduled protests and demonstrations to one area of campus.
Donald Reaves said that the new policy wasn't intended to limit free speech at WSSU.
But it has caught the attention of a national civil-liberties watchdog group that has successfully helped challenge free-speech zones at public universities across the country.
The Foundation for Individual Rights for Education, or FIRE, sent a letter to WSSU on Friday criticizing the university's policy for being too restrictive and suggesting that it may violate the First Amendment.
WSSU's policy limits unscheduled protests to the breezeway of the Thompson Center, which houses the university's cafeterias. Groups would be able to assemble in areas typically used for public activities if they schedule them with the university. The university would need to be notified at least three business days before the activity.
The policy promises not to restrict the content of any protest, demonstration, speech or program and applies to students, faculty, staff and off-campus groups.
FIRE is a watchdog agency that supports students and faculty who challenge potential First Amendment violations at universities, said Samantha Harris, the group's director of legal and public advocacy. The group does not file lawsuits against the universities.
Courts have ruled that schools are allowed to restrict the time, manner and place of free speech, but not its content. In 2005, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that free-speech zones are allowed under certain circumstances. North Carolina is in the 4th Circuit's jurisdiction. Courts have tended to treat students and other people affiliated with a university differently than people who are not.
The problem is that many schools' policies are too broad, Harris said, and that's what she thinks is wrong with WSSU's.
"Obviously, if you have people loudly demonstrating outside of classrooms during business hours, that would undermine the university's educational mission," she said. "But to the extent that it applies to green space, parks … those sorts of traditionally public spaces need to be open to free speech."
WSSU didn't intend to limit free speech, Reaves said. It wanted to give students places where the university had resources to accommodate them.
"It's really about space utilization," he said. "And so if people are going to construe it to mean that it is a denial of free speech, then they should simply stand by because we are going back to edit it. We intend on revising the policy … and making the campus as open as possible."
"If you look at the Winston-Salem campus, there aren't a lot of places where someone might assemble," Reaves said.
"Listen, as far as I'm concerned, all parklike areas are open," Reaves said. "Those areas are not restricted. Despite what the policy says."
"As an attorney with expertise in constitutional law, I cannot understand precisely where assembly is permitted on WSSU's campus; how, then, are WSSU students supposed to figure it out?" Harris wrote.
FIRE became involved in a free-speech-zone issue in 2005 at UNC Greensboro. There, a group of students were brought up on honor-court charges for protesting the university's two free-speech zones. The protest was held in front of the library, which was not a free-speech zone.
UNCG did away with its zones in March 2006. The university still has guidelines for public assemblies, but no longer restricts unscheduled gatherings to those two spots on campus. And people who are not students or affiliated with the university must have a written invitation from a university group to conduct an outdoor gathering on campus.
UNCG was re-considering the zones before the demonstration, said Lucien "Skip" Capone, the college's attorney.
FIRE learned about WSSU's new policy by reading a Winston-Salem Journal story, Harris said. Typically, the group finds out about free-speech zones through students.
That happened at Colorado State University last year, when FIRE sent university officials a letter that, in part, complained about a policy that designated an area near the university's student center as the "primary" place for free speech on campus. The university's attorney said that students could demonstrate in other areas of campus, and policy changes reflected that, Colorado Springs Gazette reported.
"The university said this was not our intention and clarified the policy," Harris said. "It was not a hostile process. And that's exactly the kind of outcome we are hoping for here."
Schools: Winston-Salem State University


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By Frederick Meekins
August 23, 2002
On "The Simpson's", the wife of Springfield's resident clergyman Reverend Lovejoy is known to rally support for initiatives of questionable logic by injecting herself into a scene and intoning in a shrill voice, "Think of the children." While this recurring gag has provided a sense of comedy throughout the run of this classic series, it's humor, unfortunately, is derived from the often ludicrous nature of contemporary political discourse.
Over the past several months, Americans have watched in abject horror the spate of grizzly child abductions and murders. Yet before the nation could finish mourning, voices rushed forward suggesting we dramatically alter our way of life to prevent these kinds of tragedies.
Instead of emphasizing what parents can do to protect their children like not befriending vagrants as in the cases of Elizabeth Smart and Cassandra Williamson or the dangers of married women propositioning equally kinky men in bars, some would rather use these incidents to promote the pet causes of the New World Order.
Considerable Evangelical eschatological speculation centers around the so-called "Mark of the Beast". Of it, Revelation 13:16-17 tells us, "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads; And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
Bible scholars and religious futurists conjecture that this passage foretells of a global political system so all-encompassing that its rulers catalog every single human being and track every economic transaction. In exercising such a degree of control, this regime hopes to take the place of God in the process.
It is normally assumed that the totalitarian computer surveillance system needed to carry out this task will suddenly be imposed during the Tribulation, of which Matthew 24:21-22 says, "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should be no flesh saved: but for the elect's sake, those days shall be shortened."
While the system will take on its most spiritually damning form during that particular historical period, there is nothing in Scripture indicating that the groundwork for this system couldn't be set into motion beforehand.
Events of this magnitude seldom occur overnight. As with the attack on the World Trade Center, these machinations are set into motion years before, regardless of whether the masses are too distracted by media debauchery to realize it.
It has been emphasized that at this time participation in these computer monitoring programs is completely voluntary. However, just because the technology is not compulsory today does not mean it won't be tomorrow or that it won't be enforced through sanctions slightly less binding than law but somewhat more coercive than uninhibited economic exchange.
Seems the minions of the New World Order now intend to wrap themselves in the assuring garments of child safety. At first, these chips will be a novelty providing those who install them in their children an additional peace of mind. But as they grow in popularity, those who refuse to participate on the grounds of religious conviction or civil liberties concerns will be seen with the same contempt and derision now reserved for those who don't own microwave ovens or telephone answering machines.
Eventually, parents refusing to electronically brand their progeny will in all likelihood be sanctioned as negligent or unfit. Those in the public questioning the wisdom of this strategy will be labeled as supporters of child abduction, molestation, and just about every other brand of abhorrent violence on the books.
While Evangelical Christians might find common cause with Libertarians in standing up to this issue, their usual establishmentarian Conservative allies will likely be of little help. Frankly, Sean Hannity has come out as one of the most enthusiastic supporters of the technology I have ever seen, gushing on his Fox News Channel program of his eagerness to invest in the company developing these nightmarish location and identification devices. And anyone thinking Ollie North will stand up for the Constitution are in for a rude awakening in light of a Sydney Morning Herald story implicating him as a key architect in the elaborate web of presidential executive orders that could one day set aside America's constitutional guarantees in favor of an arbitrary military dictatorship.
Benjamin Franklin once said those who favor security over liberty deserve neither liberty nor security. While all of us grieve over the ghastly child abductions grabbing the headlines, we must also be as careful of solutions as evil in nature as these horrifying crimes these peddlers of indenturehood are claiming to prevent.
© 2002 Frederick Meekins- All Rights Reserved
Frederick Meekins is a student in the distance education program of Trinity Theological Seminiary pursuing an MA in Apologetics and Philosophy. He has published commentaries on websites such as WorthyNews.Com, The Freedom of Religion Coalition of Maryland, and the Christian Portal Homepage and in newspapers such as the Prince George's Journal.


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