In an effort to find out, the Pew Charitable Trusts asked my Tax Policy Center colleagues Eric Toder, Jim Nunns and Joe Rosenberg to set up something of a cage match: In the blue trunks, a broad-based VAT (think 9-9-9 only much less complicated).
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Boxing has been popular in south Wales for well over a century, providing a string of champions ranging from Jimmy Wilde and Peerless Jim Driscoll to Howard Winstone, Johnny Owen and Joe Calzaghe.
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In 1954, 24 boxers became the first inductees into the Boxing Hall of Fame, including Henry Armstrong, Gentleman Jim Corbett, Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson, Joe Louis and John L. Sullivan.
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Owen's tragic tale forms part of a rich story of Welsh boxing in the USA that has featured the likes of Jim Driscoll, Freddie Welsh, Jimmy Wilde, Frank Moody, Tommy Farr, and, more recently, Joe Calzaghe.
Now called the DRIVE Act, this legislation is expected to be resubmitted this Thursday by such leading lights as Senators Joe Lieberman, Sam Brownback, Evan Bayh and Norm Coleman and Representatives Eliot Engel, Jim Saxton, Mike Ross and Jack Kingston.
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