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...control advocates were ecstatic last spring when the Maryland legislature passed one of the country's toughest bills limiting the manufacture and sale of cheap handguns. But even as Governor William Schaefer signed the new bill into law, the gun lobby was collecting the 33,000 signatures necessary to put it to a referendum next Tuesday. The result is the most expensive election campaign in Maryland history, a fight that pits the National Rifle Association against many of Maryland's leading politicians...
Still, his opponents are gaining ground. Last week a Washington Post poll indicated that 49% of probable voters favored the gun law, compared with 44% who opposed it. Following the N.R.A.'s recent success defeating a gun bill in Congress, a victory in Maryland would show that the powerful lobby can blow away gun control even when it gets past a legislature...
...Reaganesque fashion been convinced by his own rhetoric about "no new taxes." As a top Administration official puts it, "Suddenly, I see the concrete setting. Bush has begun to believe and accept that the economic expansion was driven by the tax cuts of 1981 and the tax-reform bill...
...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...
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