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New York City Opera General Manager and Artistic Director George Steel is dramatically restructuring the opera compa...
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New York City Opera General Manager and Artistic Director George Steel is dramatically restructuring the opera company, which has caused strife with the musicians' union.
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It's a land steeped in superstition and for thousands of years Indians have revered the otherworldly and the fantastical.
But that's made them easy ...
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It's a land steeped in superstition and for thousands of years Indians have revered the otherworldly and the fantastical.
But that's made them easy targets for self-proclaimed gurus eager to make a quick rupee.
Right now, a million or so of these spiritual shysters are peddling their trade across the length and breadth of the subcontinent. They spruik miracle cures and perform seemingly impossible feats of magic, charging extravagantly for their dubious services.
They've always done a brisk business — that is, until the guru busters came along.
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MR. GREGORY: You talked about the State of the State and how you see New, New Jersey in the future. One of the things we've talked about at this ta...
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MR. GREGORY: You talked about the State of the State and how you see New, New Jersey in the future. One of the things we've talked about at this table before, remember the, the, the federal state tunnel project which you were opposed to, you said, "Look, we're broke in New Jersey." And now you're calling for a 10 percent cut in income tax, would cost the state $300 million a year over three years. Why can you afford that?
GOV. CHRISTIE: Well, because first of all the tunnel project was going to cost us an additional 8 billion, so we still don't have that money to do it. It was a bad plan. And what we see is happening now is the federal government, New York, New Jersey, are working together to come up with another plan that will be more equitably shared by all the parties, not 75 percent of, 70 percent of the cost being on New Jersey. But the reason we need to cut taxes is think about what I inherited, David. I came in. We had $13 billion in deficits. We had had 115 tax and fee increases in the eight years before I became governor. We were ranked in 50th tax climate in the country and the worst business environment in America. In two years, we've balanced those budgets and brought ourselves to balance without any tax increases through very difficult, aggressive cuts. And now what I'm saying is it's time for the people to get some of their money back. Done reasonably, 10 percent cut phased in over three years, so you could do it reasonably and not bust the budget.
Think about this, David, in New Jersey, the people of New Jersey are going to know for the next three years every year their taxes are going to go down. If I had told you that when I came here the first time, you would have told me I was nuts. But we did it because of hard work and sticking to our principles and working together with Democrats. I think we're going to be able to do it again.
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