in 2008-2009 and 6.5% in 2009-2010.(HKIRD,2010). Back on 8 March, 2000, Mr, Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, who severed as Financial Secretary, fifth budget for the Finance Year 2000-2001 in Legislative Council of Hong Kong stated that it is an issue of broadening the tax base. 3 month later, HKSAR Government promulgate that a 16 members Advisory Committee on New Broad-Based Taxes Is formed, lead by Mr Moses Cheung. Mr Donald Tsang also announced that the Advisory Committee is to advise on several question
on free speech is directed at a specific generation of libertarians and alternative conservative voices, many of whom are…supporters of Donald Trump…they’re going after the social network’s most influential Trump supporters…” While vocal Trump supporters were being banned on Twitter, there did not seem to be an issue with death threats being posed toward Donald Trump and his supporters, seeing as composers of such tweets were not banned. This type of behavior, engaged in by social media platforms
Refugees. There are a large number of them, but what does that mean? Well, according to US Citizen and Immigration Services, refugees are, “people who have been persecuted or fear they will be persecuted on account of race, religion, nationality, and/or membership in a particular social group or political opinion.” (USCIS, 2015) In other words, they are pushed out of their country for fear of their lives. This then creates the issue of where they end up. According to the UN Refugee Agency, there
While I definitely think that it is up to the former White working class to dig themselves out, I 'm unsure that they 're the ones responsible for this mess. Loosing their jobs to outsourcing and loosing their sense of hope has led them to follow Donald Trump’s campaign because he sympathizes with them and promises them economic and social changes. These families have struggled with poverty, domestic violence, drugs, and unemployment. One of those families was J.D. Vance’s family. Vance grew up
Donald J. Trump’s tax returns, and his 3.7 billion net worth, was once the reason he was critiqued in the media. Once his political career commenced, the media satisfied the audience’s thirst to revise candidate Trump’s history of privilege and business skills (and how he got them), to such an extent that the election of 2016 was almost omnipresent. I reexamined the sociological aspects in Tremonti’s CBC session with David Cay Johnston. Johnston’s stance is that Trump is a no-good manager, and that
The Global music industry makes around $43.9 billion dollars a year. $12.5 billion of that is lost each year due to Piracy in the music industry and 70% of online users find nothing wrong with online piracy (“Music’s Last Decade: Sales Cut in Half”). Is it wrong? Is music piracy stealing? This topic is said to have inspired Charles W. Moore to illustrate these points in his essay. Charles W. Moore writes the essay “Is Music Piracy Stealing?” and tries to answer his own question. Moore starts off
Introduction All Creatures Great and Small was James Herriot’s first book to be published in the United States. In this book, the mature Herriot tells about his youthful self, when he graduated from veterinary school and began working in rural veterinary practice. The narrator like the reader is able to laugh at his naïveté of Herriot, as well as at the people who surround him, including Siegfried Farnon, and his brother, Tristan Farnon. This memoir of James Herriot flashes the simple and
Professor Mullen / Professor Rodin November 3, 2016 Part 1 The first issue that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton disagree on is abortion. Let us take a look at Mr. Trump’s position on this topic. He is quoted as saying, “Public funding of abortion providers is an insult to people of conscience at the least and an affront to good governance at best” (Trump). He believes that “life is the most fundamental right.” Donald Trump actively opposes Planned Parenthood and disapproves of using government funds
not agree with one another. I also will choose a candidate views I agree with and why. The three most popular issues that the politicians do not agree on is abortion, taxes, and immigration. Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton do not agree with one another on any of these. The first candidate, Donald Trump, wants to ban abortions at some point in pregnancy with exceptions for rape, incest, or life of the mother. He also wants to tax individuals differently depending on their income, and ship all
The Trump Effect Donald Trump’s meteoric political rise during the Presidential Election of 2016 put attention on the media and the way they covered the election and will forever change both politics and media going forward. The media was shown to be a bias, ratting chasing, and corrupt extension of the political parties. We will encompass the entire campaign from the June 2015 announcement that he was running, covering the primaries, then to the convention, along the path of the general campaign