Soda Tax The Policy: In February 2013‚ Senator Bill Monning‚ D-Carmel‚ proposed the soda tax that would charge a 1-cent-per ounce tax on sweetened beverages‚ such as sodas. This is described to be as part of an effort to help fight child obesity through improving nutrition and fitness programs. History: One of the biggest epidemics facing Americans right now is obesity. One can argue that soda and other sugary drinks are the biggest contributor because of all the “empty calories
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REFLECTION PAPER (Corruption in the Philippine Navy Procurement System by: LT Antonio F. Trillanes IV) Additional cost for specific purposes… Hidden Agenda…. Hidden Desires… Self Interest…. The fruit of greediness… Ignorance of power… Killer of the progress in ones living… CORRUPTION! An uphill battle for economic growth and prosperity... An obstacle to the social and economic development… What is mainly the reason why a trusted person pushes to be corrupt? Many were
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The disconnect between members of Congress and the American public is no secret. As a somewhat cynical person‚ I was not sure how I would react to being part of the political establishment myself. In winter term‚ I wrote a research paper on the American public’s trust in government. During my research‚ I found that the American public trusted Congress in percentages often in the single digits. Writing that paper‚ I grew increasingly worried that I would become even more disillusioned with American
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CHAPTER 1: MEANING‚ NATURE AND SCOPE OF PUBLIC FINANCE Def: Public Finance is the field of economics that studies government activities and the alternative means of financing government expenditures. Our focus in this course is on the microeconomic functions of government‚ the way government affects the allocation of resources and the distribution of income. THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK The Appropriation Act gives the Government of Belize the authority to collect revenue and incur expenditure within
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How has New Public management (NPM) affected the public services? To what extent has its impact been beneficial? The development of ‘new public management’ (hereafter NPM) over the past 20 years is one of the most striking international trends in public administration. It is important to mention that the rise of NPM is linked with other four megatrends in that period‚ namely: - Attempts to slow down government growth and spending (Dunsire and Hood 1989 cited in Hood 1991‚ p.3);
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cause the dissonance. Leon Festinger became aware of cognitive dissonance and made a theory to demonstrate it. He also hypothesized two ways to reduce cognitive dissonance‚ and for some people it helps them regain psychological balance. Therefore‚ interest in cognitive dissonance has increased‚ due to the rising research in different fields including in education‚ because it affects a lot of students and their learning. You
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AP U.S. Government: Chapter 9 and 10 Chapter 9: Interest Groups * K Street – where much political life occurs; a row of office buildings where nearly 7‚000 organizations are represented in Washington * The U.S. has many more organizations represented in its capital than other countries. These are interest groups (lobbies) who participate in politics. * Explaining Proliferation * Three reasons why interest groups are so common in this country * Cleavage in society * Divisions
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Introduction Public policy‚ in general‚ refers to a broad ranging issue which may deal with a wide variety of substantive areas such as education‚ health‚ housing and others. Harold Dwight Lasswell‚ an American political scientist‚ has made a great contribution to the study of policy-making‚ declaring policy as a process – “a set of phenomena organised in time and led by a number of specific and self-induced mechanisms” (1951). The key emphasis of public policy has been set on the part played by
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Essays for Public Economics Please send ONE essay by mail to bernasconi@unive.it by Saturday‚ March‚ 2nd (midnight) Please note that HG refers to the textbook: Hindriks‚ Jean and Gareth D. Myles‚ 2006‚ Intermediate Public Economics‚ MIT Press. In order to write the essay‚ I expect that you read ALL the material marked with *‚ regardless whether the material is under one particular essay. This because in order to write good essays I expect that you have a general knowledge of all the material covered in *
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THE POWER OF PUBLIC SPEAKING BY WAN HIZAM BIN WAN HASSAN Speaking in Public An English proverb says “talk is cheap!” But nowadays a good talk “can be very expensive” indeed. There are people who travels between cities town to town‚ delivering speeches as a form of entertainment or information to paying audiences. Example: Oprah Winfrey – The Oprah Show David Letterman – Late Night with Letterman (50K per speech) Do you know who „them‟? A few are
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