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...almost three times as costly as Gore's and heaps most of its benefits onto wealthy Americans. Bush offers a couple of middle-class goodies--doubling the existing $500-per-child tax credit and reducing the marriage penalty--but since the thrust of his plan is an across-the-board cut, the wealthy folks who pay the bulk of the taxes would enjoy the greatest gains (the top tax bracket would drop from 39.6% to 33%). Bush would also repeal the estate tax, which in addition to providing needed relief to family farmers and small-business owners would deliver...
...from Florida's voucher law, signed by Governor Jeb Bush but now under court challenge. The initiative would not target low-income families or subpar schools. "If it were for just one type of person, it would mean more bureaucracy," he says. Draper's polls show that an across-the-board voucher has more chance of passage. Indeed, Bishop Charles Blake, of the West Angeles Church of God in Christ, where Draper met with pastors, endorses the measure, which would be a boon to his 230-pupil Christian academy. But the Rev. Cecil Murray of the First African Methodist Church...
...highlight, again and again, the booming economy and skyrocketing surpluses and insist he's got wiser ways to spend the dough than Bush. Safer ways to save Social Security and Medicare. A better, targeted tax cut - targeted being the operative word, as opposed to Bush insistence on an across-the-board that helps rich folks too - which Gore upped to $500 billion after hearing about extra surplus dough coming down the fiscal pipe. Gore's even going to try to sell an enviro-business angle to woo corporate donors, in which cleaning the planet can be good business...
Even the University was concerned that students were too circumscribed by their loan debt, contributing to across-the-board increases in financial...
...court's ruling is misleading because it implies the city ordinance sidesteps any normative judgement on the content of the expression. In reality, the ban is an across-the-board affront to basic free speech principles. If nude dancing at adult establishments did indeed lead to higher crime rates or severe property devaluation, the city could have used a number of non-speech related means to control the effects. Certain zoning laws might allow for more efficient law enforcement and could limit the extent to which the surrounding property is devalued. Instead, as Justice Stevens wrote, "the City of Erie...