I would like to add one more practical reform to those mentioned by Russell Kirk ( Dec. 16 ).

There are other countries where, with skillful diplomacy, we may be able by our aid to give encouragement to those groups in government which would like to press forward with economic and social reform measures to promote growth.

They would become tagged as men not interested in being purely real estate `` professionals '' but agitators for some kind of `` cause '' or `` reform '', and this was no longer to be a `` pro ''.

For Joseph and his supports of Imperial reform, besides encouraging any first buddings of pan-national pride that would unite his multi-lingual and ethnic subjects under one common language ; they also hoped to save a considerable amount of money in the process.

In part this position was also necessary, as otherwise there would have been no means to elicit or initiate reform of the church.

The president asserted that free trade would gradually open China to democratic reform.

They would begin to substantially increase both the numbers and the training standards of the cavalry in their employ, just as nearly a thousand years earlier the first Iranians to reach the Iranian Plateau forced the Assyrians to a similar reform.

In the Agreement of the People, 1649, they asked for: a more representative and accountable parliament, to meet every two years ; a reform of law so it would be available to, and fair to all ; and religious toleration.

In 2011, British Prime Minister David Cameron informed the British House of Commons that his proposals to reform the rules governing royal succession, a change which would require the approval of all Commonwealth realms, were to be discussed at the 28 – 30 October CHOGM in Perth.

This has led to calls to reform the Senate ; however, such a move would entail constitutional changes.

Hughes, however, would be unsuccessful in achieving one of his main goals as governor: primary voting reform.

The DPP supported reform of the Constitution that would make it official that Taiwan's national government represented only the people of Taiwan and made no claims to territory in mainland China or Mongolia.

At a summit in Aleppo, Syria, in 1997, the World Council of Churches ( WCC ) proposed a reform in the calculation of Easter which would have replaced the present divergent practices of calculating Easter with modern scientific knowledge taking into account actual astronomical instances of the spring equinox and full moon based on the meridian of Jerusalem, while also following the Council of Nicea position of Easter being on the Sunday following the full moon.

For instance, New Zealand's landmark reform in 1989, during which schools were granted substantial autonomy, funding was devolved to schools, and parents were given a free choice of which school their children would attend, led to moderate improvements in most schools.

Although new members joined the ID group from Greece and the Netherlands, it was unclear as to whether the ID group would reform in the new parliament.

Some proponents of spelling reform view homophones as undesirable and would prefer that they were eliminated.

While in her early works Daly expressed a desire to reform Christianity from the inside, she would later come to the same point as several other feminists, that Christianity is not able to enact the necessary changes as it is.

A section of the conservatives had always been against democracy ; others had approved parliamentarianism since the revolutionary reform of 1906, but after the crisis of 1917 and the outbreak of the 1918 war, had concluded that empowering the common people would not work.

The Mugwumps, including such men as Carl Schurz and Henry Ward Beecher, were more concerned with morality than with party, and felt Cleveland was a kindred soul who would promote civil service reform and fight for efficiency in government.

They attempted to pass land reform legislation that would redistribute the major patrician landholdings among the plebeians, in addition to other reform measures.

As part of a wider reform of social provision it was originally thought that the focus would be as much about the prevention of ill-health as it was about curing disease.

Frustration with abolitionism, spiritualism, and labor reform caused Lum to embrace anarchism and radicalize workers, as he came to believe that revolution would inevitably involve a violent struggle between the working class and the employing class.

The Young Turk revolution brought these movements to the front, hoping that the reform of Ottoman Empire would lead to broader reforms.

When we `` forced '' individuals to assume the corporate structure by means of taxes and other legal statutes, we adopted what I would term `` pseudo-capitalism '' and so took a major step toward socialism.

If it were not for judicial development of certain exceptions, this section would prohibit a suit for refund by an acquiring corporation for taxes paid by a transferor corporation, even though the reorganization meets the requirements of section 381(a).

If the transferor has substantial assets other than the claim, it seems reasonable to assume no corporation would be willing to acquire all of its properties in the dim hope of collecting a claim for refund of taxes.

One, by Sen. Louis Crump of San Saba, would aid more than 17,000 retailers who pay a group of miscellaneous excise taxes by eliminating the requirement that each return be notarized.

-- State representatives decided Thursday against taking a poll on what kind of taxes Texans would prefer to pay.

-- President Kennedy today proposed a mammoth new medical care program whereby social security taxes on 70 million American workers would be raised to pay the hospital and some other medical bills of 14.2 million Americans over 65 who are covered by social security or railroad retirement programs.

It would be financed by boosting the social security payroll tax by as much as $37 a year for each of the workers now paying such taxes.

These would be paid for out of general, not payroll, taxes.

The mid-term elections in 1862 brought the Republicans severe losses due to sharp disfavor with the administration over its failure to deliver a speedy end to the war, as well as rising inflation, new high taxes, rumors of corruption, the suspension of habeas corpus, the military draft law, and fears that freed slaves would undermine the labor market.

Clinton's advisers pressured him to raise taxes on the theory that a smaller federal budget deficit would reduce bond interest rates.

Disraeli proposed to reduce taxes on malt and tea ( indirect taxation ); additional revenue would come from an increase in the house tax.

Other Serb-dominated communities in eastern Croatia announced that they would also join SAO Krajina and ceased paying taxes to the Zagreb government.

This led the Ottoman government to agree to an arrangement whereby the different nahiyes ( districts ) of the Chouf would be granted in iltizam (" fiscal concession ") to one of the region's amirs, or leading chiefs, leaving the maintenance of law and order and the collection of its taxes in the area in the hands of the appointed amir.

If the gentry refused to collect the King's taxes, the Crown would lack any practical means with which to compel them.

Many assumed the Estates-General would approve future taxes, and Enlightenment ideals were relatively rare.

Additionally, income taxes could be eliminated because the state would receive income to finance public services through owning such resources and enterprises.

" One of his major promises to the peasantry and other groups was that there would be no new taxes.

Without the oppression of the state, Labadie believed, humans would choose to harmonize with " the great natural laws ... without robbing fellows through interest, profit, rent and taxes.

He excluded Patrick Henry's plan to compel citizens to pay taxes that would go to a congregation of their choice.

Increasing business and income taxes, Nehru envisaged a mixed economy in which the government would manage strategic industries such as mining, electricity and heavy industries, serving public interest and a check to private enterprise.

It was usual at the time for the king to collect taxes in silver, which was then re-minted into new coins ; these coins would then be put in barrels and sent to royal castles around the country, to be used to hire mercenaries or to meet other costs.

The Ottomans attempted to create peace by dividing Mt Lebanon into a Christian district and a Druze district, but this would merely create geographic powerbases for the warring parties, and it plunged the region back into civil conflict which included not only the sectarian warfare but a Maronite revolt against the Feudal class, which ended in 1858 with the overthrow of the old feudal system of taxes and levies.

Tax reductions likewise, as rational consumers would predict that taxes would have to increase later to balance public finances.