high‚ interest rates were high and the national spirit was low.” Reagan’s Economic Recovery Tax Act was the first major legislation passed in his first term as the President of the United States. It was passed in 1981 and is also known as ERTA. This law lowered income tax rates and allowed for the expensing of depreciable assets. The tax act also greatly helped small businesses and individuals. They benefited from special tax treatment‚ accelerated capital recovery‚ and being allowed to merge. ERTA
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Some may be nonconformist toward the way the government runs in some countries. They may be nonconformist because they see it as a way of protest. They may want the government to change certain laws‚ lower taxes‚ raise salary‚ or even demand for a new president if they feel the president is not doing the best it can do. For example‚ in Mexico‚ 43 Normalist students went missing during the month of September of 2014. Their families‚ desperate to
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Voter turnout isn’t great; many Americans just simply don’t vote. I choose the topic on American voter turnout during the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections because former president Obama and current president Trump ran a completely different campaign. I wanted to research how this may have affected the peoples votes or the lake of. During my research I looked at the background of American voter turnout‚ both of the elections as a whole like who voted and what made them vote that way‚ the battleground
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safe as possible but effective as well. “The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimated that 732‚000 American children were saved from death and 322 million cases of childhood illnesses were prevented between 1994 and 2014 due to vaccination” (Pros and Cons‚ 2016). Some vaccinations have completely eradicated fatal and contagious diseases such as polio and smallpox. By being vaccinated children are less likely to develop certain diseases and illnesses that could be potentially fatal or debilitating
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WARN act and its pros and cons The WARN Act is a law that formulated to cater for mass layoffs of employees. This law will provide a protective shield to various employees and their individual families by notification to the employees before the closure of the plants they are working in within a 60 day period (Ford et al‚ 2000). This law majorly applies to companies with a high number of employees and in this case the company that is about to undergo closure has 73 employees. The pros of the WARN Act
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“Buying green‚ saving green‚ acting green‚” is the new mantra hummed by numerous amounts of people in the world today. Becoming environmentally conscious has grown to a state where everyone shames those who leave a light on when they leave a room or when they leave the tap on a second too long when brushing their teeth. Can abiding by these rules solve our never ending issue of climate change? An overwhelming no can arise from that. Green consumers these small acts are enough to reach their goal
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Prior to 1787 the states were fairly new‚ power wasn’t evenly distributed between the people the state and the national government. This was the reason the delegates decided to come together‚ to review the articles confederation in order to acquire a stronger national government. The article of confederation provided the states with an abundant amount of power and not a sufficient amount to the nation government. Hence why states often ignored congress and worried only about the good of their state
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Brandi Miller Ashton University INF: 103 Mark Revels November 8‚ 2010 The Pros and Cons of the Social Web 2.0 1. What is Web 2.0? a) Where did it start from? b) Sharing information? c) Who can share this info? 2. What are the good things about social-web? a) Easier communication Advertising b) Great way to learn c) People connected together by common interests 3. What are the cons of using the social-web? a) No Privacy b) Cyber bulling c) Identity theft
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And might it not be well at the same time to provide by law for the enforcement of that clause in the Constitution which guarantees that "the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States"? 9 I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules; and while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress
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THE PROS AND CONS OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE Nuclear energy is a powerful source of energy compared to other conventional fuels. All crude oil based fuels derive their energy from oxidation‚ which is a change in the energy levels of electrons outside the nucleus. However‚ nuclear energy derives power from changes in the nuclear energy levels of the atomic nucleus! Tremendous energy lies locked up inside a radioactive nucleus and nuclear fission is a way of tapping this energy. Nuclear power plants derive
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