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...Lesson Learned Joe Klein, in his "No Pain? No Gain For Either Candidate" column [Oct. 18], bemoaned the candidates' lack of honesty about tax policy during the presidential debates. But remember the 1984 debate between Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale, when the latter infamously predicted that the next President, whoever he might be, would definitely raise taxes? At the same time, Reagan said he would not increase taxes. Two things happened after that: Mondale lost 49 out of 50 states, and Reagan raised taxes. Want honesty in debates? Forget about it! Doug Weiskopf Cincinnati...
...Staff writer J. Patrick Coyne can be reached at coyne@fas.harvard.edu. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...
Disclaimer: This column didn’t start out as a liberal polemic, but that’s what it became...
Thanks to the unfortunate exigencies of newspaper deadlines, this column is a time capsule written in the blistering anxiety of pre-election agitation and flung into a dangerous and uncertain post-election future. But I already feel safe drawing at least one conclusion from this nasty and brutish if not-so-short presidential campaign: It has incontrovertibly demonstrated the impotence of our current campaign finance legislation...
Sasha Post ’05 is a social studies concentrator in Adams House. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays...