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Governments throughoutbeyondonvia the world have little trouble finding new forms of taxation. Incomesalarywagepay taxes, taxes on inheritance and capital gains are inmuchallno  common. Nobody, however, has neveroncerecentlyever suggested that there should be a tax on men. Nobody, that is, until now. In her new book, Men Are Not Cost-Effective, American psychologist June Stephenson proposes just that. Men, she claims, makedocausespend disproportionate costs to society. The basisgroundrationaleproof for this claim, according to Stephenson, is that men are responsible for almost all crimes in America. About 90 per cent of all prison partnersinmatesaccomplicesbuddies and murderers are men, and men commit 74 per cent of white-collar crimes such as insider-dealing and fraud. Stephenson estimates that crime currently costs America approximately $300 billion a year. According toAsInUnder the present tax system, she says, women pay more than fair share of these costs. Men, she argues, should have been askedhave askedbe askedask to pay the bill for their actions by being taxed more heavily. It is an interesting argument. It is also veryanquitethe incomplete one, The Economist points out and asks:’But why pick on crime? (…) After all, it is only one example of a social cost.’

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2. You  needn’t have toldmust have toldshould have toldought to tell me that you didn’t want to go.
3. I wish I  have donedidwould dohad done  it earlier. Now I have to do it in a hurry.
4. If Sam  acceptedhad accepteddid accepthas accepted  the job, he wouldn’t have financial problems now.
5. I wish you  will stopcould stopwould stopstop shouting. The baby is sleeping.
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10. Sam regrets  tellingto tellto have toldnot to have told Kate what he saw behind the curtains at the theatre. Now she is scared to death.