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...part, Dole has tried to allay conservatives' doubts about his convictions with lunges this spring to the right on gun control and his attack on Hollywood. He reminds the fervent budget cutters that back in 1985 he engineered the only across-the-board cut of federal programs (including a freeze on Social Security) that the Senate has ever passed-only to be undercut by Ronald Reagan. Last week Dole tried to push through one of his pet projects: easing regulations on business, a measure that is designed to appeal to conservative hard-liners. But when it comes to meat inspections...
...corporate earnings and executive salaries have soared. He claims both parties are too willing to "bow down to a gold calf" of free trade, sacrificing "American jobs on the altars of transnational corporations." He wants to repeal NAFTA and GATT, end foreign aid within five years, and slap across-the-board tariffs on Japanese and Chinese goods...
Opponents argue that the scheme would introduce bad incentives into the system by tempting high earners to conceal income. What some of them would prefer to see is a gradual, across-the-board reduction of benefits. One way that could be accomplished is by ending the special protection against inflation granted to Social Security pensions, which are increased every year to offset the full amount of inflation. Cost of living adjustments in most private pensions and in workers' wages are limited to part, if any, of the annual increase in prices. Why should Social Security pensioners alone be fully protected...
...Republican's proposed cuts in socialspending in Congress may threaten residents. IfWashington announces across-the-board spendingcuts, the park upgrades might be threatened,according to Reale...
...Republican leadership has promised across-the-board cuts to every program except Social Security and defense. We must ask why on earth these politicians feel compelled to throw money at fighter planes and protect this country's oldest generation while leaving its youngest hamstrung and hog-tied...