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After arriving in the wake of a recession that Clinton had convinced voters was still going on, Rubin pushed through a politically risky fiscal policy that helped produce two terms of low long-term interest rates, miniscule unemployment, and booming economic growth that filled government coffers higher than they?d...
But some of them are getting itchy. The same day, Kent Conrad and John Kerry (he of the 2004 presidential ambitions) raised the possibility of a cut in the payroll taxes that pay for Medicare and Social Security (tied, of course, to a rollback of the future phases of Bush...
Just ask President Bush. Or the municipal leaders of Webster, N.Y. In March the tiny village (pop. 2,500) just south of Lake Ontario placed ads in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times offering to sell 2 million gal. a day of "crystal clear well water." That...
A study commissioned by Philip Morris in the Czech Republic found that a cigarette-smoking public, far from being a drag on public funds, was actually a boon to government coffers - to the tune of 5.815 billion Czech korunas, or about $147 million.
It's a problem hidden by war and ignorance. There is still no national policy on AIDS, though the government promises one by the end of the year. The National AIDS Control Programme, which has existed since 1987, barely functioned even before the war and today has just seven staff...