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India may extend export tax on parboiled rice to ease food inflation ahead of national elections. The government is considering keeping the tax at 20%. No immediate proposal to ban exports. Extension of the tax could keep world supply tight and raise prices. Measures to control food inflation include curbing exports, cracking down on hoarding, and providing subsidized rice to retail customers.

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It is absolutely imperative that we get our act together on this issue. were fighting for the future of the planet. >> this idea that science is just absolutely settled and if you dont believe its settled then youre somehow another neanderthal, that is so inappropriate. >> back now with end game and trying to break the political paralysis. carlos curbelo, you were the -- you wanted to introduce a carbon tax. you were at least trying to start the debate about a carbon tax, but as were watching wh...

>> it is absolutely imperative that we get our act together on this issue regarding the future of the planet. >> this idea that science is just absolutely settled and if you dont believe its settled then youre somehow another se then youre somehow a neanderthal. that is so inappropriate. >> back now with "end game" and trying to break the political paralysis. carlos, you wanted to introduce a carbon tax. but as were watching whats unfolding in france and the pushback there, is a carbon tax doabl...

Himself the master of "the art of the deal"? >> i think the president seems to want to deal on health care, any deal, he wants something on his desk, but many of us do want to present a deal not only to him, but to our leadership, 43 of us in the last few days put forward a bipartisan plan on health care that would stabilize the individual insurance market, that would provide for cost-sharing reduction payments and stabilization, and repeal of the vice tax, employer mandate. wed love to engage i...

>> let me play devils advocate. they say it cost $50 that,000 to treat -- $52,000 to treat uninsured gun victims. does it make sense to charge people who buy weapons and am mow to help cover that? >> just so people are -- just what they are craving, more taxes. they will find a way to tax everything at some point. the guns dont kill people, people kill people. a lot of people who get guns dont get them the way you describe. they get them illegally. they are not going to be taxed. criminal guns a...