Governors Jindal, McCrory and Heineman cite the growing evidence that states with low or no income taxes have done better economically in recent decades compared to states with income-tax rates of 10% or more.

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One consequence is that precious dollars are pumped into research aimed at a cure or prevention while almost no resources are available to help learn how to better care for people who already have dementia or for training or other assistance for their caregivers.

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Consumers are free to shop elsewhere, or to play games that have no similar requirement made by companies who they believe offer better security.

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Professionalization of a teaching profession that merely focuses on getting better PISA test scores or more efficient teaching of a common core curriculum will do no better than what we have now, and probably worse.

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But every society has a poor storm that wretches suffer in, and the attitude is always the same: either that the wretches, already dehumanized by their suffering, deserve no pity or that the oppressed, overwhelmed by injustice, will have to wait for a better world.

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Perhaps lessons have been learned, and the next time a president warns the American people that we have no choice but to invade another country or risk our doom, the press will do a better job of being skeptical, thoughtful and rigorous than it did 10 years ago.

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"No longer should we allow investment managers to have a better tax rate than teachers or doctors or firefighters, " said a leading advocate of the change, Montana Democratic Sen.

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