Rather than scare these taxpayers away, the IRS made these important changes to make its initiative more attractive to join.

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As his first initiative, he proposed sweeping changes to America's schools, including the annual testing of elementary-school pupils and the use of vouchers to help parents of children in bad public schools to pay for private or religious education.

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This year, seeking to retake the policy initiative, the ICI is pushing regulatory and legal changes it claims are in the interests of small investors.

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Pistole said the changes are in keeping with his "risk-based security" initiative and will permit airport screeners to focus on looking for bomb components, which present a greater threat to aircraft, instead of lesser threats.

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But the Microsoft-backed lobby group Initiative for a Competitive Marketplace (Icomp) was not convinced the changes went far enough.

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Moreover, in many ballot-friendly states, voters can offer up new constitutional amendments or state initiative petitions so that the voices of small businesses can be heard with future changes.

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Remarkably, our allies don't seem willing to make the needed structural changes--slashing suffocating taxes, blasting away at job-killing labor laws and reforming initiative-stifling welfare policies--to spark genuine growth.

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Brian Hooks, director of the Global Prosperity Initiative at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, advocates the kind of legal reform and changes in property rights pioneered by Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto--reforms that will eventually enable the world's poor to join formal financial systems.

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During the last two years of the Bush Administration and, without meaningful changes to date from the Obama Administration, the central tenet of the US cyber policy remains the Comprehensive National Cyber Initiative.

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