Word: coded
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...Boskin argues that the 1986 law "sharply reduced incentives for investment, and we're paying a price for that in slower < growth." Liberals attack the current system as both unfair and unproductive. Robert Shapiro, a domestic-policy adviser to Democratic presidential front runner Bill Clinton, charges that "our tax code has been encrusted with layer upon layer of distortions of market signals . . . It undermines the productivity of the entire economy...
...consumption tax has never caught on politically, largely because it was considered too regressive, meaning that it was too favorable to the wealthy at the expense of other taxpayers. While that may be true for crude plans like Jerry Brown's, it is not immutable. A consumption code can be made as progressive as one wishes, by adding brackets (the 1977 Treasury plan proposed brackets of 10%, 28% and 40%) and generous exemptions (Hall-Rabushka would not tax the first $16,000 of income). A consumption tax also would tax gifts and inheritances like any other income, unlike current...
Unless the polls dictate different tactics -- or he just can't contain himself -- Bush will be the soul of propriety. The President will aid the negative strategy only in debate or when responding to a Clinton charge, but in either case, the code words will be unmistakable. "If he gets a question about some supposed insensitivity, he'll say, 'I don't need a lecture from Bill Clinton about personal responsibility,' " says Ailes. "Or if Clinton waffles during a debate," adds Bond, "I can hear the President saying, 'There he goes again, dodging another question...
Take, for example, welfare reform. When ever Duke mentions welfare reform, I hear liberals huffing about "code words." Well, perhaps, in Duke's mouth, "welfare reform" is a code phrase. He sure as hell didn't show too much compassion for Blacks or Hispanics or other poor people before...
...Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) admits that many welfare recipients are caught in a "cycle of dependency." In Thursday's Boston Globe, Ellen Goodman came out in support of using welfare reforms to discourage women on welfare from having children out of wedlock. Are they too using code words...