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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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 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: 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...