Essays on Reforms.

Analysis of the Kasich Tax Reform Plan

ANALYSIS OF THE KASICH TAX REFORM PLAN 2 Summary of Governor John Kasich´s Tax Reform Plan

this in part by eliminating most tax deductions other than the mortgage interest deduction and the charitable contribution deduction. It also does this by reducing the number of personal income tax brackets from seven down to three. It also reduces marginal tax rates across the board. Kasich´s tax reform plan would reduce the top individual income tax rate gains and dividends from 23.8 percent to 15 percent, and completely eliminate the estate tax (which is currently at 40 percent). It would ...

1.0. Introduction China is regarded as one of the strongest economies around the globe. Especially, within past three decades, it has gained massive impression through its rapid economic growth. It is not very long ago when China’s GDP crossed the figure of 14% and overtook several of well reputed economies of the world (The World Bank, 2015). Basing on this tremendous performance, majority of economists and analysts did not haste to forecast it to be the world’s strongest economy by the end of 2025 an indication of which is also given in the diagram given in the ...

Presidential Candidate Tax policy Proposal.

Donald Trump is the current leading presidential polls candidate and has proposed changes in the tax policy. Central to his reform plan is the significant reduction in marginal taxes for individuals as well as businesses as stated by Trump (2015). The fiscal policy change will consequently increase the standard deduction sums to as much as four times over the current standards; subsequently, the policy will limit or revoke some of the tax expenditures. Other consequences of the policy include the repealing of personal and commercial alternative nominal tax rates as well as the estate and gift tax. Trump's policy ...

Background

Tanglin Polymers is a large supplier of petroleum products to different industrial customers. The company has a vast operational field with 30 production plants and refineries in China, Veitnam, Indonesia, Singapore, New Zealand, and Australia. In response to the issue of coordination with regard to purchasing order, the CEO MR. Patrick Ang decentralised the organisational structure through delegation. Manager of each unit was allowed to deal with all the business matters relating to its unit with full authority (The Case, n.d.). The CEO created a new position to handle purchasing procedure having identified issues with that. He hired an ...

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Industrialization and modernization are one of the factors that affect or influence the signs of the ageing process. Technological advances in the modern day world have also influenced the signs of the ageing process. Social transformations continue to be an important factor in the way people observe their cultures and practices in today’s world. Developed societies, regardless of their great accomplishment, have shaped a new set of frequent and unsettled problems which will provide the main force for additional societal transformation (Chirot, 2011). The Western culture that has been lately practiced in many places has led to the ...

The Colonization of foreign lands by whatever nation more often than not proves devastating to the colonized territory and people residing on it. The arrival of the British, a potent seafaring nation, on the Indian subcontinent marked an extensive period of exploitation that left the economy in a stagnant state. Starvation and poverty, illiteracy, agricultural decline, resource exploitation, wealth drain, trade inequity, infrastructural underdevelopment, feudalist land ownership, and the near-liquidation of artisans were among the outcomes of the Crown rule. However, this is not to say that positive outcomes were nonexistent, as the globalized nature of the sea empire ...

Medical practitioners have on various occasions have been facing challenges as far as making crucial decisions concerning patient visitation. A good example is a situation whereby a certain patient is terminally ill and has contagious disease which is a threat to other human beings or when a patient is hostile and there is possibility of attacking visitors. In most cases, hostile and patient with chronic illness such as Ebola and swine flu scare are usually placed in quarantine under close care. As such, the physician is usually under crossroads in deciding whether to allow visitation or not to such ...

Businesses are mostly affected by various problems. The SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002) is a crucial legislation that was passed in the United States to protect businesses, general public and stakeholders from fraudulent practices and accounting errors. It is worth noting that the U.S SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) is mandated to administer the act, which entails publishing the rules and setting compliance. The SOX has become a major tool in the business and financial operations in the United States. In fact, SOX is streamlined to protect business operations and prevent fraudulent activities. The SOX was enacted because of ...

Health care reforms aim to address the inadequacies and inequities in the current health care systems and to organize a more effective and efficient way of improving the access and delivery of health care services to the public. The debate on the issues involving the health care reforms have been going on for decades. There were many issues raised and the current health care system has several implications to public health that raise more questions and debatable concerns in terms of prioritizing the health care programs that the public needs the most. There are different elements that can affect ...

Introduction

Civil uprising in Syria has become an international humanitarian crisis. Five years after the Syrian Arab Spring, armed conflict rages on without any indication of abatement. While a solution amenable to the conflicting parties is elusive, understanding the underlying causes and the consequences of the continuing conflict is important to determining a solution.

How did it begin?

Syria’s formation as a nation state created a volatile political environment. Syria has been governed by an authoritarian regime. Syria’s government from 1970 to 2000 was a dictatorship by Hafez al-Assad, from the Alawite minority sect. It was through the armed forces that government ...

Upon reading fellow student, Amanda’s reflection, I think that it really is a bit odd for American business executives to be the ones who were in charge of creating school reform. School is a business in some aspects, but with public schools as a sector of state government, it is not really up to business executives to determine what an ideal school should look like. Traditional educators should have been the ones to formulate these decisions. I am in agreement that the government creates policies which control education and that they really do not know what goes on ...

Chapter 2

LITERATURE REVIEW This chapter is comprised of the review of relevant theoretical and evidence-based literature. The review begins with a discussion of the literature on Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) theory, Motivational Theory (MT), and Constructivist Theory to establish the conceptual framework. Each theory is discussed in the context of pedagogical practice. The review continues with the discussion of the literature on technology and social media in general, as well as on the technology, social media and learning in particular. The review then concludes with the review of the research literature on using Twitter in EFL teaching with learning in ...

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Abstract There is many court cases that are heard by the court system on a daily basis. Some of these court cases are either being heard for the first time, or being appealed to a higher power of court. The laws are made to be followed, and obeyed in the country. The United States Constitution was honored to be upheld for the citizens, and for the professional authority of our nation. In some cases the courts will have to decide if laws were upheld, and rights were not violated in the state and local government as well. In the ...

Health care costs are increasing throughout the world (Stabile et al., 2013). US spend more on health more than any of its European peers. For instance, in 2013, US spent 17.1% of its total GDP on health care while France and Germany spent only 11.7% and 11.3% respectively, of their total GDP on health (World Bank, 2015). Despite this massive expenditure health, the Europeans receive better health care quality than the Americans. There is a correlation between health care spending and quality of care provided (Stabile et al., 2013). Therefore, reforms in the health care spending might be associated ...

John Roberts was nominated for a position on the U.S.A. Court of Appeals in January 2003 and soon confirmed by the voting majority. His activities are considered to be very influential on the system of justice in general. During two years of him on the position Roberts wrote more than 49, most of which were quite significant and only 2 of them were unanimous. On 2005 John Roberts was nominated to fill the vacancy of the Chief Justice. Since that time the impact of his decisions dramatically increased. That is why it is important to conduct thorough research of ...

Within any environment where politics is involved, numbers are the key. In this case, the nurses knew they had the power of numbers and all they needed to do was to work towards a common goal and achieve a similar objective as well as incorporate some more numbers within their decision making group. This was then anchored with the fact that the team had within it a high level of experience and professionalism and thus the decision should solely be based on the patient outcomes that may be accrued from the change in unit which is what entails their ...

Internal and External Issue of Brazil

Introduction The dynamics of the world politics are changing with the passage of time. The nations are experiencing a changing paradigm shift in its internal and external problems. The governments are trying their best to develop different kinds of policies compatible with the needs of the modern era. The living standards of the people are getting affected due to perilous economic issues. Consequently, it is becoming hard to compete even if the government is providing basic necessities for their masses. The analysts have started questioning the credibility of the important government institutions which are directly or indirectly involved in ...

Business, Law, Politics and Ethics

Part one: Corporate Acquisitions and Multinational Corporations The Supreme Court of the United States stopped the planned merger between Chrysler and FIAT following the declining performance of the former. President Barack Obama was accused of overstepping his mandate when he authorized federal bailout for the automaker (Aspenleaf Productions, 2011). There are fears that the merger would have far reaching implications on people because it would protect or take away their wealth. Question one: The groups that would benefit from the planned selling of Chrysler are the directors of the acquiring company. Upon the completion of the merger, the retirees ...

Question 1

What kinds of games and forms of subculture are most influential and widespread in East Asia (China, Korea, & Japan)? The kinds of games that are most widespread in East Asia (China, Korea and Japan) are the online games. Even though they received resistance from the authorities of the three East Asian countries, they have experienced outstanding success in the East Asian region. Whereas various online games in the globe sell across the world and thus try to discount their cultural source, online games in the East Asia tend to be culturally specific. This cultural specificity not only results ...

It is a natural corollary of criminal justice that if there is a crime, inevitably there will be a punishment. The idea of punishing a person for a crime is thought to be necessary for a number of reasons including retribution for the victim, deterrence to potential criminals, incapacitation of the convict, and rehabilitation of a convict in the hopes that he will refuse to commit the crime again. Punishment is usually imposed through a sentence or an official decree by a court allowing the state to take action against an individual found to be guilty (LII, n.d.). Since ...

INTRODUCTION

Many methods of crime control and prevention have been adopted throughout America to deter and reduce crime. Many of these methods have been unsuccessful. However, there is one method that would be more effective than any of those attempted to date. Selective incapacitation is a proactive method of crime control that directly targets those who are responsible for the majority of crime in America. Regardless of the criticism this method produces, in removing the highest risk individuals from the street, selective incapacitation will triumph over other methods of crime control.

DEFINING SELECTIVE INCAPACITATION

Selective incapacitation is a proactive method of crime deterrence ...

I. Title Page II. Introduction. The numerous research conducted in the sphere of childhood obesity proves that the problem is so serious, that it cannot be either ignored, nor solved just partially . Therefore, the complex Childhood Nutrition Reform is needed. The given research will be dealing with the identification of the key factors that cause childhood obesity and measures to be taken to incur a real impact on society in terms of changing the eating habits. III. BODY

Background

The scope of the problem of child obesity and the importance of taking the issue seriously. We explore how childhood obesity ...

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“The sufferings of the Helots among the Spartans, were somewhat severe, it is true, but to say that theirs, were as severe as ours among the Americans, I do most strenuously deny” –“David Walker’s Appeal” in Let Nobody Turn Us Around, p. 28. The above statement, which was written by David Walker in his Appeal in Four Articles, attempts not only outline the atrocity of slavery in America, but also mentions the fact that the type slavery practiced by the America is worse than even that practiced by the Spartans. Walker goes on to ...

Corporal punishment is considered inflicting of physical pain upon a prisoner as a punishment for violation of a prison rule or regulation. Such forms of conduct include, but are not limited to whipping, cold shower, electrical shocking devices and suspension from cell bars by handcuffs. The use of solitary imprisonment as a system of punishing violations of prison discipline is not included within corporal punishment definition. Most states have no statutes that specifically forbid the use of corporal punishment. Other states, however, prohibit corporal punishment in detention facilities by the statue. The use of corporal punishment to reinforce prison ...

Conventional explanations for development policy failure are legion: weak property-rights regimes; a paucity of natural resources; deficient funding levels for education, culture, and religion; and, recently, geography. Yet throughout much of modern history of development policy, policy makers have largely ignored the varying contexts in which development reforms succeed or fail. Instead, the predominate view has been to prescribe a laundry list of proposals, the so-called Washington Consensus, as the best course of action for igniting economic growth in developing countries. It is no surprise then that much bad development policy has arisen from the neglect of the country-specific ...

Introduction

The dynamic changes in the health sector since the inception of the health reform's implementation are crystal clear as Gruber and Newquist (2011) note. Many organizations in the present US have networks with other organizations, not only within the health system but the entire economy as a whole. Within the healthcare context, organizational linkages serve very crucial purposes, if hierarchy and policies put in place are observed. Top of the list is the ease of patient referrals. This is usually done in a vertical manner, from organizations with resource constraints to those with plenty. The merging of health systems ...

Proposal for Change Paper” - Drug & Alcohol Abuse Introduction

There are quite a number of problems that usage of drugs have on the well being of teenagers. The main concern is addiction of drugs whereby the affected parties end up having problems coordinating their mental stabilities. From the foregoing, it is imperative that effective measures be taken to address this issue since the future of the nation is primarily dependent on them. As such, it is important that these groups of individuals be educated on the effects of addiction and how to live a purposeful life.

Going by the current statistics, it is evident that indeed there is ...

Insanity Defense

Introduction One of the central issues of nowadays in the sphere of criminal law is insanity defense or so-called mental disorder defense, which is thought to be the basis for a person to be acquitted, or, namely, not be liable for an action. It is also characterized as ‘probably the most controversial criminal law doctrine, which, when used successfully, being a rare example in American law, gives a defendant, who has clearly committed the crime, even one as heinous as murder, is deemed not guilty and may not be punished It is noted that ‘mental illness has always played ...

The paper intends to discuss the role of pop-art in the evolution of American culture after the Cold War, particularly. Music has played a significant role in accompanying the cultural evolution during the period of American wars. The Cold War has influenced the American Society dominantly because of the rising issues of antagonist values between the USA and the Soviet Union. The Cold War was particularly aimed at targeting the military engagement in the communist expansionism that was intervened in the form of Vietnam and Korean Wars by the Americans. More specifically, it was Cold War that has impacted ...

Response to Ahlam

I agree with your opinion that numerous challenges confront education reform processes. Therefore, policymakers need to adopt diverse strategies while teachers and communities must also play a crucial part in the reform processes to address some of the challenges in the education sector. Primarily, the reforms should be teacher friendly, and their ideas and reservations ought to be taken into consideration. Moreover, the community also plays an important role in the implementation of changes in the education system. Therefore, attempting reforms without incorporating ideas from the affected communities is impractical (Mcbeath, Reyes, and Ehrlander, 2008). Moreover, with the increase ...

America’s peaceful borders have been necessitated by two remarkable trends that have occurred over the past thirty years. These include sweeping democratization and the spread of integration agreements. The military and the governments of the day have played their different roles successfully. The military have been on the lookout for any peace disturbance potentiality from outside the country while the democratically elected governments have ensued prevalence in all hemispheres of the country. As a result, countries have managed their borders peacefully without the need for military interventions (Johns Hopkins University Press 1). Through investment and trade preferences, the ...

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Gender equality in today’s era is the most important objective for development. Smart economics is represented by the gender equality. Greater the gender equality, greater are the chances of improved productivity, development outcomes for the coming generation are improved and institutions look more representative. This study aims to understand the Declining Sex Ratio in India, What are the reasons for declining child sex ratio, the gender gap and the need for policy reforms that should be taken to improve this Sex Ratio in India. Sex ratio is defined as the number of females against 1000 males. The result ...

For years, government transactions and contracts have been kept from public who may wish to review where their taxes go and how their elected officials act in their behalf. However, with the creation of the internet, classified government information is slowly leaking to the public and sites such as WikiLeaks reveal a darker picture of known government decisions that remains controversial even at the present time. Arguments from supporters and opposition of WikiLeaks have grown throughout the years, posing a question as to whether or not WikiLeaks is beneficial or detrimental to the public. Although some may see WikiLeaks ...

1. Identify each cause of action that is pursued and the plaintiff and defendant to the lawsuit The general procedure of the case will involve investigating the concepts of the case and applying the legal scholarship to the facts that are demonstrated. The specified facts that will allow the families in the case to bring a case against the hospital include a major lack of consideration regarding the potential hazards that were made evident in the report filed by the Joint Commission. The failure of the hospital to develop solutions to these problems resulted in various medical issues This ...

The health care sector in the U.S has had predominant influences from the improvement of technology. This is one of the major reasons that has led to more involvement in the medical science field which is directly associated with the education of the health care practitioners. The health care system need to improve has been rising due to various goals and strains that have faced the American people. They include the need to check the costs of health care that are soaring, improve the quality of health care and cater to the increasing number of Americans in need of ...

“Arab Spring” in 2011 was meant for overthrowing the corrupt and incapable governments in many of the Middle Eastern countries such as Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, and Egypt (Ibn Abī al-Ḍiyāf and Brown 59). The anarchic rule of the king/president was taken over by democracy in these countries perpetually, as a result of the constitutional reforms. The constitutional changes were meant to implement democracy as the major political system in the Arab world. The question arises as to what interest did the Arab governments had in constitutional reforms and what did the public want? Revising the constitutional text ...

Immigration is a contentious topic in the United States today. Even now, the Presidential Debates are full of discussion of immigration and the suggestion of immigration reform; in the last months of his presidency, President Obama seems intent on discussing and passing new immigration reform legislation as well. Immigration is a difficult topic in the United States because the country has literally been built on the backs of immigrants; however, there is also a long history of xenophobic thought and nationalistic sentiment in the United States as a whole. The history of immigration is even more contentious in places ...

____________ University In recent times, Americans have experienced an increase in health care cost which has made it difficult for many citizens to gain access to medical care. Furthermore, the recession has raised the number of Americans who do not have access to health care because they are uninsured due to the reduction in their benefits or the loss of their jobs. Experts predicted that the number of uninsured citizens will continue to increase if there is not a solution in place that would help struggling Americans. As a result, America would face an economic crisis if there was ...

Tax reform proposal analysis – Hillary Clinton

Each candidate in this year’s presidential election has a big vision for the United States regarding revenue which would lead to the growth of the American economy. One of the issues at hand that each of them is tackling is the tax issue. Hillary Clinton is one of the most vibrant candidates in the presidential election. According to Hillary, her tax proposal is set to grow America economically. First on her proposal is the increase in tax on home and business income due to some policies that are set to be enacted, the plan aims at enacting what ...

Part1

Critics have questioned the authenticity of medical-related to industries support towards reforms in healthcare reforms. One might argue that these industries have decided to forgo profits in the future to gain in regarding public relations rather than support the efforts being made towards providing healthcare services access to all. According to Brody (283), a conflict of interest can be seen clearly by examining the reaction of medical professionals to these reforms. Professional medical organizations have made no promises towards reducing medical costs. Ironically, some physicians have offered to support the reforms on the condition that their income is not ...

The rule of law can mean different things because it is an ambiguous term. This is the first index and it is believed to be the legal principle which the law must govern a certain country as opposed by being governed by the arbitrary decisions of a person’s government official(Ferguson 81). Tunisia has a rich legal system to cater for the rule of law. They are among the first countries to have a constitution which governs them. Due to this, many in this country have ended up following constitution as various amendments have been factored in to ...

Decembrist occurred on date 26 of the year 1825, and its main aim was to protest the reign of Tsar Nicholas, who took the throne after his father death (Nowak, Andrzej, and Jaime 77). The successor was to be Constantine, who was Alexander's elder brother but instead he declined the role in public. Many officers did not believe that he could decline; this made his younger brother, Nicholas, to step forward. He was not popular, and this made officers take action. One of the main causes of Decembrist revolt was that early in the reign of Alexander 1, he ...

Abstract

With the increased competition in the airline industry, especially in the low fare segment, Ryanair, the initiator if this segment in Europe, is faced with various pressures, coming from its competitors, external environment or industry trends. While the company has the resources to manage the challenges of the 21st century, which tops with the necessity to become a global brand, it also requires a sound strategy. This report starts with analysing the internal and external environment of Ryanair, in order to identify the strategic directions that it can pursue in its globalization approach and it further proposes a global ...

Health policy analysis was focused on the examination of Medicaid health policy – the Patients Protection and Affordable Care Act – PPACA, known also by the name “Obamacare”. The policy expands the coverage, holds insurance companies accountable, lowers health care costs, and provides more quality of health care for low-income families and individuals. Coverage prevision is being expanded. The relevant evidence and quality concerning the effectiveness of healthcare services is crucial to policy question related to clinical care and practice (Medicaid.gov, n.d.). Methods will change with different approaches such as prevention; diagnosis, treatments and monitoring a clinical condition with improving the ...

Introduction

Patient safety is undoubtedly linked to health care quality; patient safety may even be considered as the cornerstone of health care quality. That statement alone, makes the ethical and legal concepts that are required of health care organizations in the delivery of high quality health care highly important when talking about patient safety. Quality health care is an umbrella term that encompasses many aspects. Moreover, many also consider patient safety as indistinguishable from quality health care. Nevertheless, a quality health care has indicators such as safety, effectiveness, patient centeredness, time, efficiency and equity. The focus of this paper will ...

Democratic revolutions like the Arab Spring has toppled down political regimes abusing their authority for personal gains creating nepotic cults that leave people impoverished. Contrary to expectations, a series of revolutionary movement mostly failed to reach the intended target. It is not that all uprisings were to no avail altogether. Tunisia had better resources than countries like Egypt to reform the country. Overall, the shortage of wealth, the presence of specific US interests in the region, a pro-military electoral mentality, and the dominance of political parties have halted the democratic progress in North Africa and the Middle East in ...

Introduction and Background Information

Identification procedures, line ups and show ups form some of the most important and fundamental elements of criminal procedure that help in the investigation of crime and bringing to justice to those suspected to have committed an offence. An identification procedure normally involves the identification parade or line ups whereby a victim or witnessed the commission of a crime is allowed to single-handedly pick out the individual they allegedly saw at the scene of the crime or in the actual act. On the other hand, show ups enable witnesses of crime commission to decide whether one is a perpetrator ...

Introduction

In America, Federalism came into practice when some states rejected the thought of a unitary government. Due to the large size of the country, the founding fathers allowed states to form powerful governments. State governments are used as a training ground or political labs for policing, where new ideas can be implemented and evaluated (El Camino College N.pag). In Federalism practicing states such as Florida, state government possesses the power of providing safety and public health, regulate interstate commerce, form government and conduct elections. However, Washington still carries the power of printing money, declaring war, establishing an army and ...

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Sweden is the largest country in the Northern Europe and is situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula. It has the lowest income inequality rate in the world. It shares boarders with Germany, Denmark, Russia, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia and Estonia. The country is predominantly agricultural, and it is notable for its wide forest resource when compared to other European nations. As Schack-Nielsen points out, “around 4% of Sweden’s workforce relies on primary sector” and around 6% of total land is used for agricultural purposes (Schack-Nielsen 34). Sweden has 21 counties and 25 provinces, and these divisions serve ...

Civil Liberties and Social Responsibility

In 2002, as reported by The New York Times, the Bush administration approved a presidential bill giving the National Security Agency (NSA) the power to track, listen to, and intercept without a warrant the local and international communications (e.g. emails, phone calls) of a vast number of American citizens. Sooner or later, the scheme expanded to involve a certain extent of 'internal controls' (ACLU, 2015, para 2), yet there was no mention of mandating warrants specified under the foreign intelligence surveillance laws. This surveillance program has penetrated and invaded almost all of the communications technologies and networks that the ...

In considering the potential contribution of linguistic anthropology to the ongoing reform of Native American education it is evident that there are various sources of information that demonstrate the need for major reform in specific categories of education. This can be applied in order to develop better practices for educating not only Native American students but students of various differing ethnicities. In developing these pedagogical reforms there are particular categories of education that should be focused on. In consulting on a tribes in a generic sense, the differing types of educational reforms that can be recommended on the basis ...

Social Issues in the Films “Anna Karenina” and “The First Grader”

“Anna Karenina” is considered to be a great historical novel written by Russian world renowned novelist Lev Tolstoy. It is also a film directed by Joe Wright. It serves up all the important issues intertwined with tasty, thrilling, salacious and tantalizing gossip. It is a story with varied affairs, complete with sex, heartbreak and eventually, suicide-by-train (Anna Karenina). Having written the novel during the 1870s, there were lots of political and societal changes in Russia. The novel occurs against the backdrop of liberal reforms represented by Emperor Alexander II in the 1860s. These reforms involved prompt growth and development ...

Question 1

No, under the current legal framework on healthcare, physicians practicing in a group practice in primary care setting do not have the right to choose what types of patients they can treat in terms of health insurance and disease conditions. According to Sekhri (2000), the managed healthcare system under the Act only gives patients the option of choosing the type of insurance, whether private or public payer but not physicians. Fodeman (n.d) argues that, the new law on health, the Affordable Care Act is likely to interfere with the doctors’ autonomy and flexibility in making decisions on which insurance ...

In the United States today, health care spending currently comprises over $2.7 trillion dollars and this accounts for nearly 17 percent of GDP .(Gruber 2011) To contextualize this statistic, in the manufacturing sector, GDP was close to $1.8 trillion and in real estate, $1.9 trillion in 2011.(Gruber 2011) The health care sector is one of the biggest sectors of the United States Economy. As the baby boom generation continues to retire, these numbers are expected to accelerate. Health care spending today also comprises a huge fraction of federal and state spending, and these numbers are anticipated to grow ...

Health policy combines action, plans and decisions to achieve certain health care improvements. The goals of the health care policies are referred by the World Health organization as a vision for the future, building consensus, informing people and outlining the priorities for the short and medium term. Many historical policies have been implemented in the United States, but still the health care expenses are rising from year to year and had in the last year 2015 reached 17.5% of GDP (United States Census Bureau, n.d.). The paper will examine one of the most important health policies Medicaid. The social ...

Introduction

GST is one of the most controversial laws in Australia. Despite the fact that this tax is one of the major sources of Australian treasury, many critics contend the idea that it has a regressive nature. To be more specific, they argue that this tax has larger impact on lower income earners, suggesting that in comparison with those, who earn larger incomes, this tax consumes proportionally larger share of income. The proponents of the GST in their turn rebuffed by claiming that in order to furnish adequate reimbursements for these categories of people, the government of Australia introduced a ...

The Latin American countries have for a long time waged war against imperialism and neo-colonialism by the developed countries. In the heart of neo-colonialism is capitalist imperialism that is characterized by predatory activities of countries that seek to reap big from the less developed country’s resources. Despite the fact that Canada does not regard itself as a capitalistic nation, its large-scale involvement in mining investments in Latin America gives quite a different picture. The mining industry has always been frowned upon and although it is one of the most lucrative businesses, its eventual effect on the population and ...

Change of Business Entity

Introduction Starting a business as a sole proprietor has its advantages and disadvantages and with development, it is normal for entrepreneurs to consider converting to other business types that have better terms. Some of the primary benefits of this sort of business include; the owner has full control of the company operations, can sell or transfer ownership, and does not incur tax whatsoever. Furthermore, the entrepreneurs spend less on acquiring the legal documents as compared to the other types of business. However, entrepreneurs operating in sole proprietorship are held responsible for any business debt or liability unlike the other ...

1. The Chinese Communist Party was founded to resolve problems of wealth inequality and to address the shortcomings of capitalism in China. However, it currently faces some of the same problems that its predecessors faced in terms of poverty, unemployment, wealth inequality, and providing services to its people. Why is this and in what ways (if any) is the CCP still pursuing socialists goals and employing socialists means? The Chinese Communist Party has had significant changes over the years, particularly while Deng Xiaoping's was the leader. This party is considered a communist party. Leader Hu Jintao, in 2006, described ...

On January 21, 2010 the Supreme Court ruled in the Citizens United vs FEC case

in a 5-4 decision in favor of Citizens United. The decision effectively eliminated the ban on corporate spending in elections. It ruled that campaign donations and campaign spending constitute free speech and that corporations are people (Barnes). The Citizens

United ruling also stipulated that people can contribute up to $5,200 per candidate per

election cycle ($2,600 each for both the primary and the general election) and make unlimited contributions to single-candidate super PACs on top of that.(Levy 1).

Speech Now vs FEC

Two months after the Citiznes United vs FEC 5-4 SCOTUS decision, a unanimous nine- judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decided in Speech Now vs

FEC that Congress could not place limits on donations given to organizations that make

expenditures independent ...