Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smokers know this fact; they most likely repeat it even as they light up another one. But as dangerous as the health hazards are, they fail to convince. And that is why Larry White's new book, Merchants of Death: The American Tobacco Industry is so useful. White's argument is joined at a moral level, arguing not only that that smoking is bad for you, but that smoking is bad for everyone, because it props up a tobacco industry which is ruthless in its pursuit of power...
Even when Dukakis finally gave his lukewarm endorsement of liberal principles, he had to qualify it--I might be a liberal, he said, but I can balance budgets. That argument reinforces the idea that liberals are sappy but warmhearted people incapable of competent fiscal management--an unusual accusation to shy away from in light of the Reagan-Bush administration's incredible fiscal irresponsibility over the past eight years...
...showed him answering questions from avariety of people and then summarizing hiscampaign argument that Bush stands only for thewealthy. He said his rival's call for a reductionin the capital gains tax would benefit the rich atthe expense of everyone else and said, "Look inthe mirror and ask yourself, 'Is George Bush onyour side?' I want to give every American a chanceto build a better life...
Oddly enough, the one policy issue on which Bush displays genuine passion -- slicing the capital-gains tax to 15% -- would refute the argument behind tax reform: earned and unearned income should be treated equally. But then Bush never believed the free-market gospel that tax preferences distort the economy; one of the few times the Vice President took an activist role in the White House was to preserve oil-industry write-offs in the 1985 reform bill. And Bush promises oilmen new tax breaks if elected...
...shouted and pointed fingers, demonstrators outside the studio waved placards reading FREE CANADA, TRADE MULRONEY. Turner, driving his argument home, declared, "We built a country east and west and north. We built it on an infrastructure that deliberately resisted the continental pressure of the United States. For 120 years we've done it. With one signature of a pen, you've reversed that. It will reduce us, I am sure, to an economic colony of the United States...