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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. |
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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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. |
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. |
