No Republican, not even Ron Paul, is going beyond the status quo to insist that top marginal tax rates must be cut by at least a third (ideally scrapping the current income-tax system altogether and replacing it with a pro-growth, low-single-rate tax system that does not punish saving, investing and entrepreneurial risk-taking as the current progressive income tax does).

FORBES: Memo To The President: We Can't Tax, Spend And Print Our Way To Prosperity

On a single screen the system allows traders to monitor the market, their current positions and other indicators.

FORBES: Guerrillas on Wall Street

The danger to the regime, therefore, is not that all of the inchoate anti-Putin forces will engage in a temporary alliance of convenience (such a group will prove almost impossible to manage) but that a single group will present a coherent, specific, and structured alternative to the current system that is embraced by a plurality of the population.

FORBES: Richard Sakwa's Outstanding Analysis of the Putin System's Past, Present, and Future

Its job is to recommend a single proportional alternative to Britain's current first-past-the-post electoral system, with voters asked to choose in a referendum between that alternative and the status quo.

ECONOMIST: Politics

In the longer term - the government plans to introduce of "universal benefit" - which would replace the current system of Jobseekers Allowance, income support and employment support allowance with a single benefit to try and simplify the system.

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They argue that too many votes are effectively wasted under the current system, with elections decided by a small number of voters in a handful of seats where no single party has a large majority.

BBC: Q&A: Alternative vote referendum