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The Role Of Tax Policy In Federal Support For Higher Education, John B. Kirkwood, David Mundel
The Role Of Tax Policy In Federal Support For Higher Education, John B. Kirkwood, David Mundel
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The federal government has a wide range of instruments by which it can influence the nation's higher education system to produce socially desired outcomes. The challenge facing policymakers and planners is to maximize these socially desirable outcomes by selecting a desirable mix of programs and distributing among them scarce financial resources. This paper will attempt to (a) outline the bases for a policy development process that maximizes the desired program selection, and (b) identify possible roles of tax instruments in federal higher education policy.
The Right Deed For The Wrong Reason: A Reply To Mr. Robinson, George P. Fletcher
The Right Deed For The Wrong Reason: A Reply To Mr. Robinson, George P. Fletcher
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So far as there is a school of criminal theory in the United States, it is a school devoted to sifting and celebrating the purposes of the criminal law. Discussions in the literature are dominated by endless recitals of the deterrent, rehabilitative and retributive functions of criminal sanctions. The orthodox view is that all of these purposes are relevant and that any proposed rule of criminal law must be measured by its tendency to further one or all of these goals. If the issue is punishing negligence, for example, the standard mode of analysis is to ask whether punishing negligent …