None of that is likely to matter to those who see Mr. Wurzelbacher as a symbol of the entrepreneurial spirit they hope to foster with tax cuts, but even Mr. Wurzelbacher said he was shocked by all the attention.
While the president unctuously swore to "get rid of the mob," his administration slashed the budgets of the F.B.I., D.E.A. and S.E.C. while fostering huge tax cuts for corporations and the already wealthy.
Alternative energy projects can be fostered with tax breaks for industry and households but they will take a generation to scale up to a meaningful percentage of energy generation.
Even liberal economists acknowledge that high rates discourage work, saving and investment, while fostering wasteful tax dodges.
That they foster it with tax breaks, as they do in America, is daft".
That they foster it with tax breaks, as they do in America, is daft" ("The trouble with the housing market", March 24th).
Foster's pre-tax profit on its global wine business declined 7.3% to 363.9 million Australian dollars for the year ended June.
12 March 2013: bedroom tax for foster carers and armed forces.
The governor has proposed using about half of the surplus for tax credits, foster care and daycare programs for the poor.
