Progressive taxation is not the sole solution to extreme economic inequality in the US, but it can mitigate its effects.

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But this is domestic policy of extreme importance, and it is a solution rather than an unsolvable problem in a faraway land.

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My idea does sound a bit absurd, but it is just an extreme and very direct attempt at a solution, because this really is a huge crisis and something drastic does need to be done.

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Although such realignments are fairly common in Sri Lanka, the current epidemic of political manoeuvring renders the immediate prospects for stability, or for progress towards a negotiated solution to the civil conflict, unpromising in the extreme.

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Northumberland Estates said it was working hard to find a long-term solution but said there was little it could do "in the face of such very extreme weather conditions until the culvert can be cleared".

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