Word: buchananism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forbes is pushing a pure flat tax, with a rate of 17% and the elimination of all deductions, but that is proving too severe for most of the rest of the field. G.O.P. candidates Phil Gramm and Pat Buchanan back the general idea but say the mortgage-interest and charitable-donation deductions are too popular to end. Dole and Lamar Alexander have been cagier about how flat and how free of exceptions their plans would be. Forbes sneers at his rivals, "They are responding to a poll rather than to conviction." But their views show a respect for recent history...
...between people who believe that you have finite resources and how are we going to divide the pie, and people who believe that the way to ameliorate poverty is to create wealth and that you can create models for more dynamic growth. If that's correct, then would Patrick Buchanan fit in the opponents' camp, or would he fit in your camp...
Gingrich: I don't know. I don't want to read anything into what Buchanan has said. What I can tell you is, I think your description of the debate is only a partial statement. First of all, the core problem is culture, it's not redistributionism; second, that decentralized charities that have a sense of spirit and passion are vital; third, that bureaucracies that are anonymous are devastating; fourth, that you have to have incentives at the micro level for individuals; and that fifth, you want to maximize the creation of wealth and the acquisition of wealth rather than...
...nightmares of depravity" whenever he visits the state. And it helps explain why Dole's new 30-second television ad, which promises tax cuts worth "$330 million for Iowa families," touts a "conservative agenda for change." Last week Dole burnished his conservative credentials by signing up Marlene Elwell, a Buchanan organizer, as his Iowa field director...
...lavished $1.1 million to spread his message, more than double the combined media expenditures of his rivals. A few weeks ago, neither the Gramm nor Dole camps believed Forbes could turn out significant numbers of supporters at the time-consuming caucuses. Now they are not so sure. As Pat Buchanan told TIME, "[Forbes] is softening up Dole, he's draining off Gramm, and he's driven poor Lamar into the nether reaches...