Corporate Income Taxation
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A 3 page paper discussing the relative merits of corporate income taxation, both in its current form in the US and as it would be were the US to adopt a value-added tax (VAT) approach. The VAT is not compatible with other tax structures, and depending on the output of the specific organization, it ultimately rests with those least able to pay it when the corporation raises prices to pay its taxes. This is true regardless of tax structure, and it is a point that legislators must bear in mind when searching for additional funds for pubic services. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: KStaxCorp.rtf

Correcting Negative Externalities
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A 4 page paper defining externalities and how they lead to market failure, then discussing three approaches (regulation, cost-benefit analysis, adopting sustainability measures) to correcting negative externalities. Negative externalities are "spill-over" qualities or items that carry social costs. When producers fail to acknowledge those social costs, the costs are there just the same. Milliken is one company that gives potential negative externalities the attention they deserve. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: KSpubAdmExtern.rtf

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Proposition 82
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A 22 page paper providing full cost-benefit analysis of the effects of Proposition 82 which will require free universal preschool for all of California's 4-year-old children. Discount factors used are 3 and 4 percent; teachers are given a raise only once and no other costs increase over the 30-year life of the program. The project becomes positive after the first decade. Bibliography lists 23 sources.
Filename: KScbaCAprop82-2.rtf

Costs of Government Interference in Small Business
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A 7 page paper discussing some of the myriad regulations with with private companies must comply. There are many areas in which government regulation is oppressive for private corporations, but minimum wage and payroll tax issues are common to all. Though underlying intentions may be admirable, legislators and administrators need to evaluate their actions with greater care so that private companies are better able to compete in today's changing economy. The paper also discusses environmental regulations. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: KSgovtRegs.wps

Critical Essay, Review, Analysis, and Revision
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This 7 page report presents a critical essay written on the topic that “Workers at the bottom of the economic ladder are paid enough.” An initial essay is presented and then criticized in terms of its overall argument and pseudo reasoning/fallacies. Then, the essay is revisited and suggestions are made of how it should be revised to better state the author’s argument and overall point of view. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: BWcrites.wps

Curbing Drug Use in North Idaho
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This 3 page paper explores the drug problem in the region and makes a proposal. The proposal is to use drug testing in schools. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: SA646Ido.rtf

David Rusk/ "Cities Without Suburbs"
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A 5 page research paper that examines David Rusk's book on urban politics, Cities Without Suburbs. The writer offers a summation of Rusk's argument that urban problems can be aided by consolidating city and county governments. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: 99drusk.wps

Decreasing Infant Mortality by Decreasing Low-Birth Weight Infants from Teenage Mothers
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This 5 page paper provides an overview of a public health view on the issue of infant mortality rates in teen mothers and the impacts of a new policy perspective. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: MHinfmoUS.rtf

Defense Budget Cuts in 2003 and Future Plans
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This 6 page paper provides an overview of the Defense Budget Cuts in 2003 with particular attention to the building of the Raptor. Should a less costly version be built? This is the crux of the issue in this analysis that compares the F-22 to the F-35 designs. Annotated bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: SA314cut.rtf

Determining Social Welfare Policy in Accordance with National Goals
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A 7 page paper exploring in economic terms whether social welfare functions are either realistic or relevant expressions of collective goals. The paper briefly addresses the origins of nations’ collective goals typical in Western thought and presents compassion as an admirable national trait, but also points out that those advocating proposed social programs frequently fail to assess those programs’ full economic implications. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: Welfgoal.wps

Differences Between Public and Private Administration
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This 5 page paper compares and contrasts private and public administration. Public and private organizations and their cultures are discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: SA344pp.rtf

Disaster Preparedness: Hurricanes
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A 6 page discussion of the role of emergency managers in hurricane preparation and response. Emphasizes the need for pre-planning and details the importance of evacuation and the provision of adequate shelter and supplies for those who do not evacuate. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: PPhurrcn.rtf

Downs' Life Cycle of Bureaus
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A 4 page summary of Anthony Downs' account of the life cycle of bureaus. The paper progresses from genesis of the bureau to its cessation of function, which likely will occur long after its usefulness has ended. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: KSpubAdmBur.rtf

Duties to be Paid on Petrol
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This 5 page report discusses a situation in which Great Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown who has repeatedly allowed the duties on petrol in the UK to remain in place. Brown likes to “present himself as the model of stern budgetary rectitude” but in the face of fuel issues, he may have to change his determined stance. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: BWpetrol.rtf