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Take all the dollar bills you collect and buy donuts for the police officers so they'll have something better to do with their time. Now that's the way to run a city. Sarah J. Schaffer
...increase Loker's popularity, Dining Services launched a successful public relations campaign, including a sweepstakes and the free coffee cups on Opening Day. Students can also collect stamps for free food items. College students being as easily coaxed by offers of prizes as they are, the campaign served to raise Loker's visibility on campus...
...that's true, the flat tax would collect less money than the current system, at least in the short term. Robert Hall, a conservative Stanford University economist, who with his colleague Alvin Rabushka literally wrote the book on the subject (The Flat Tax, 1985), estimates that Forbes' scheme would widen the federal deficit by $182 billion a year--just when a majority of voters in both parties say they want a balanced budget before new tax cuts. Forbes, a believer in the quasi-theology called supply-side economics, assumes that tax cuts, even when financed by federal borrowing, will generate...
...addition, he faulted "new members of the Congressional majority, [who] while billing themselves as reformers, collect on average more than $60,000 from Washington-based political action committees in just the first six months in office...
...head in the field on gun control. "Being a conservative doesn't mean you have to lose your common sense," the 30-second, televised spot informs Iowa voters. The Indiana senator, who says he believes in Americans' rights to own a gun "for self-protection, to hunt and to collect," stresses that he was the only member of Congress running for the nomination to have opposed the 1994 assault weapons ban vetoed by President Clinton. The ad concludes: "There is no right to sweep a playground with an assault weapon...