Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ARMS CONTROL: In favor of research, butnot deployment of SDI. Calls for a 50 precentreduction of strategic weapons. CENTRALAMERICA: Opposes any aid to the contras.Supports Arias peace plan. DEFICIT: Willreduce the deficit by up to $40 billion per yearby freezing military spending and imposing an oilimport fee. EDUCATION: Says federalgovernment should give matching funds to parentswho invest money in accounts specifically fortheir children's education. TAXES: Favors a$5-a-barrel oil import fee, against raising taxes.TRADE: Sponsored legislation that allowsthe U.S. government to place tarrifs on theproducts of any nation that fails to provide fairtrade opportunities...
ARMS CONTROL: Supports SDI research butopposes deployment. Against nuclear testing andchemical weapons. CENTRAL AMERICA: Opposesmilitary aid to the contras but supportshumanitarian aid. Supports Arias plan.DEFICIT: In favor of a balanced budgetamendment. Will not cut defense spending, but willcut unnecessary programs and waste in the defensedepartment. Would impose a progressive tax as alast resort. EDUCATION: Calls for morestudent loans and a longer school year. Saysfederal government should fund at least 10 percentof national education expenditures. TAXES:Would support luxury tax and increase tax oninherited stock. May consider an import tax.TRADE: Opposes Gephardt amendment. Againstprotectionist policies except in extreme cases ofunfair practices...
ARMS CONTROL: Opposes SDI. Will cut allnuclear testing and withdraw a third of all U.S.troops based in Europe. CENTRAL AMERICA:Opposes aid to the contras and favors the Ariaspeace plan. DEFICIT: Would raise taxes onthe wealthy and cut defense spending. Suggestsforming an American investment bank that wouldborrow from private pension funds to financepublic programs. EDUCATION: Would combatilliteracy and improve standard of education byincreasing federal funding by $10 billion dollars.TAXES: Will keep the 38.5 percent incometax bracket and implement an oil import tax andexcise tax on luxury goods. Would severely limitdeductions for business meals and entertainment.TRADE: Favors the Gephardt amendment, butacknowleges...
ARMS CONTROL: Opposes SDI. CENTRALAMERICA: Against aid to the contras, supportsthe Arias and Contadora peace plans.DEFICIT: Supports a balanced budgetamendment. Would cut defense spending and lowerthe unemployment and interest rates to reduce thebudget. EDUCATION: Seeks to attackilliteracy, first, by increasing beginningsalaries for grade school teachers. TAXES:Would raise taxes for individuals earning morethan $100,000 a year. Calls for a $5-per-barreloil-import fee and luxury taxes on alcohol andtobacco. TRADE: Opposes the Gephardtamendment. Sponsored legislation that would punishspecific industries that practice unfair trade...
...farm policy, Simon offers a coherent aid plan, without giving away the store, as the winner in Iowa, Gephardt, had no trouble doing. And unlike Dukakis, Simon's plans for America extend past the Eastern shore, and its endive-garnished hors d'oeuvres...