Word: across-the-board
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Michigan Senator Spencer Abraham, however, protested that the idea was far too complicated. He was the most persistent and forceful advocate of the idea that finally won: a 15% across-the-board cut in income tax rates over six years. The idea was so simple that a button touting it could say simply 15%--whereas, Abraham scoffed, a button for the other plan would have to read AGI-FICA, and even that would need detailed explication...
...criticized both President Clinton and Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole, the former for his overall economic plan and the latter for failing to explain his plan, and his call for an across-the-board 15 percent tax cut, in more detail...
...point, a questioner invited Dole to lay out the specifics of his across-the-board 15 percent...
...They aggregate more than a billion dollars," said Weld, who supports the across-the-board tax cuts proposed by Republican presidential candidate Robert J. Dole. "I don't see why the government should have it instead...
...since Bob Dole announced his economic plan, he has been attacked for not being specific enough. But that's not fair. The Republican candidate has been quite specific about both the programs he would enlarge and the ones he is not willing to touch to pay for his across-the-board 15% income-tax cut. To Californians he promised more B-2s, and in New Mexico he assured Energy Department workers that they would be spared the downsizing he has planned for that agency. Last week he was at it again, offering an expanded version of the G.I. Bill...