Word: budgeted
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ARMS CONTROL: Calls for research and deployment of SDI. CENTRAL AMERICA: Favors military and economic aid to the contras, and opposes the Arias peace plan. DEFICIT: Favors a balanced budget amendment. Will consider cutting some domestic programs while freezing spending on all programs, except low-income programs. TAXES: Will not raise taxes. Favors an oil import tax, with cost reductions for home heating oil. TRADE: Is against Gephardt amendment, but agrees that some action must be taken against nations that practice unfair trade...
ARMS CONTROL: Favors resasech and deployment of SDI. CENTRAL AMERICA: Favors military and economic aid to the contras, and opposes Arias peace plan. DEFICIT: Against the balanced budget amendment. Favors a domestic spending freeze, except for Social Security programs. EDUCATION: Proposes a private incentive program to improve education rather than increase federal funding. TAXES: Will not increase taxes, suggests cutting the proposed Social Security tax increase set for 1989. TRADE: Opposes Gephardt amendment. Sponsored bill for a reciprocal free-trade zone between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico...
ARMS CONTROL: Favors research and deployment of SDI. CENTRAL AMERICA: Favors sending military and economic aid to the contras, and supports the Arias peace plan. DEFICIT: Will reduce waste in the defense department and eliminate the Department of Education. Favors Gramm-Rudman balanced budget amendment. EDUCATION: Would implement the use of education vouchers, and calls for increases in programs to attack illiteracy. TAXES: Will not raise income taxes, but will raise taxes on alcohol and tobacco. TRADE: Favors free trade, opposes Gephardt amendment, but concedes that some action must be taken against unfair trade practices...
ARMS CONTROL: Supports limited researchon SDI, but not deployment. Against nucleartesting and calls for cuts in superfluous nuclearweapons. CENTRAL AMERICA: Against contraaid, supports Arias peace plan. DEFICIT:Will raise taxes to reduce budget deficit. Opposesbalanced budget amendment. EDUCATION:Favors federal grants to school districts forimproving science, math and foreign languageeducation, and grants to business for instructionin technology. TAXES: Will raise taxes onfamilies earning more than $200,000, increaseliquor and tobacco taxes, and supports a$10-per-barrel oil import tax. TRADE:Against all protectionist policies, calls fortightening sanctions against nations that violatefree trade practices...
...when it comes to government spending, Simon is not afraid to call for defense cuts and more social programs. His program is straight from another era, when government provided for all strata of citizenry. His one troubling position--in favor of a balanced budget amendment--is hardly motivated by the platitudinous and knee-jerk reasons given by the other candidates who favor the amendment. Correctly, Simon observes that unbalanced budgets raise interest rates and in that way facilitate one of the largest income transfers--from poor to rich--supported by the Reagan administration. Even if the legislation would curtail important...