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Introduction to Humanities Needs New Aims

Bush's Advisory Panel Considers Tax Reforms

 

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Nothing Special About Special Fees

Fair Taxation Necessary for Equality

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Stanford's General Fees System Needs Fixing

 

 

Introduction to Humanities Needs New Aims

Fair Taxation Necessary for Equality

Every freshman is familiar with Stanford’s Introduction to the Humanities Program, more commonly referred to as IHUM. Taken by the vast majority of freshmen to satisfy the Area 1 General Educational Requirement (GER), IHUM occupies a central role in campus academic life. IHUM, along with the Program in Writing and Rhetoric, is one of the only course sequences common to nearly the whole student body.
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Considering the mire of bureaucracy regarding federal income tax and its collection, I am pleasantly surprised by the realistic options being dis-cussed. On July 31, President Bush’s Advisory Panel on Tax Reform will include in their recommendations to policymakers: a revision of the federal graded income tax, a flat income tax, a consumption tax, and various combi-nations of these.
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Bush's Advisory Panel Considers Tax Reforms

Nothing Special About Special Fees

San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center held the sixth meeting of the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform on Thursday, March 31, 2005. The specific focus of this meeting - the Panel’s sixth - was to examine the U.S. tax system as it relates to international affairs.
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It’s the start of the quarter, and a Stanford student is already procras-tinating his problem sets in favor of surfing the net. What website does he browse - thefacebook.com, amazon.com or refund.stanford.edu? Last year, the ASSU made much of the massive increase in refund requests, and reportedly was forced to make stu-dent groups bear part of the burden of these requests to avoid bankrupting the special fee system.
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