Word: across-the-board
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...surplus that seemed to go as far as the eye could see suddenly made tax cuts a stump speech staple again. "It's your money," Bush used to say - and soon the targeted vs. across-the-board debate reared its head as a partisan issue. But in the fight for the swing voters who had slowly learned to love fiscal discipline, tax cuts were not high on their presidential to-do list. Perhaps the best that could be said of Bush's $1.3-trillion-dollar baby is that it didn't cost him the election...
...These are the post-Clinton political seas into which George W. Bush will launch the $1.3 trillion across-the-board tax cut that was first conceived by the Bushites to sink Steve Forbes in New Hampshire. It's a tough sell. Voters would take a tax cut - who doesn't want more money? - but the size scares them. Republicans have always depended on tax cuts, but know that the size makes them vulnerable to getting out-empathized by Democrats. And Democrats know that Bill Clinton gave small, feel-good targeted tax cuts a very good name...
...Bush obviously figures the best immunization against a spring contraction is to give plenty of reminders that it'll be a problem he inherited from Clinton. And a little gloom and doom is the best sales pitch in years for big across-the-board tax cuts, which haven't been popular since Ross Perot made fiscal responsibility cool again. So Bush has little reason for public optimism...
...likely to work. He can't bring back the tech sector to its former glory, and neither can Bush, but a few interest-rate cuts might juice up the Dow and put some money back in the system for business borrowers. For Bush, the prospect of a big across-the-board tax cut is more attractive than it's been in years, but he'd better make sure it's fiscally sound enough get a few kind words from Greenspan, who got the inflation-hawk bond markets behind deficit reduction by calling Clinton's first budget "credible" and "serious." Bush...
Brinton said the inclusive nature of the Republican platforms resulted in an across-the-board appeal to many individuals outside of as well as within the party. Many of the candidates appealed to a wider audience in their bid for office...