The Vietnam War was raging. America was torn apart by the conflict. My only option seemed to be to take to the streets and join in the protest against this horrible assault against my Vietnamese brothers and sisters so many miles away. I did not want to increase the hatred and anger that already abounded, as people took sides and quarreled their beliefs. I wanted the killing to stop. I wanted the hatred to stop. I wanted peace.At the moment the photographer, Marc Riboud, captured this 17 year old hippie, my flower was extended in a prayer for peace. I could never have imagined the life my photo would take on, extending my message of peace around world. I could never have imagined how that moment would forever document my role as a symbol of love. I could never have imagined how my life would forever be dedicated to my role as a peacemaker. For in the blink of an eye, the click of a camera, the flash of a shutter, I became forever committed to my role as a dedicated peace pilgrim who lived for the good of humanity. Please come with me on my journey from suffering law breaker, to committed peace maker. It is a journey we can take together.
The Vietnam War was raging.
Amnesties are widely used in society to rehabilitate past sinners, to collect resources, such as library books, that would otherwise be unrecoverable, and to make enforcement easier by reducing the ranks of delinquents. Over the past four years, tax amnesties have emerged as a major instrument of state revenue policy. Twenty states conducted amnesties. Record collections were made by New York ($360 million) and Illinois (income tax amnesty dollars 3.4% of collections). Amnesties took in dollars that would probably have escaped otherwise, and tax rolls were bolstered. Tax amnesties also have costs, however. They may anger honest taxpayers, diminish the legitimacy of the tax system by pardoning past evasion, and decrease compliance by making future amnesties seem more likely. Shou1.d the federal government, aswirl in tax reform and suffering from an estimated $100 billion tax evasion problem, now offer an amnesty of its own? What type of federal program would most likely be offered? What would it be likely to accomplish? State tax amnesties have generally bean coupled with enhanced enforcement efforts, a feature intended to preserve the legitimacy of the tan system. The amnesty/enforcement combination twists the penalty schedule, lowering it non raising it later, in that way encouraging prompt payment. With no past sins to hide, future compliance also becomes less costly, hence more probable. Any federal amnesty, we predict, would be accompanied by a strengthening of enforcement. After reviewing the state experience, we speculatively estimate that a federal amnesty/enforcement to annual revenues on the order of $10 billion
Have amnesty programs affected compliance? Any analysis must deal with
worlds that never existed, since there is no control group of states that have
significantly bolstered enforcement without offering amnesty, or offered
amnesties without ...
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