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Levy an energy tax. This could be a twofer: it would not only help ease the budget deficit but could also reduce the trade gap by discouraging demand for imported oil. A tax of $5 per bbl. on annual U.S. imports of some 1.5 billion bbl. of foreign crude would raise approximately $7.5 billion in extra revenues. An alternative is a gasoline tax of 5 cents per gal. in addition to the current 9 cents federal levy, which would produce an extra $5 billion or so (1986 U.S. consumption: 112 billion gal.). Though energy taxes tend to be regressive, citizens...
...black and white. It's drawn with a magic marker. It has a lot of words. It contains few words pertaining to the election, save "Vote for me!" In short, the campaign poster looks crude compared to its flowery and poetic companions...
Miller explained that such Yard outbursts occurevery year, and Sunday night's battles, although"a little crude," were of no great concern...
...with similar victories, Robertson's local organizers were able to attract Iowans who had not been politically involved. A year ago, a crude instruction sheet called the "Christian Political Action List" advised new activists to "hide your strengths" and "pretend to be interested" in general party business. Much of the missionary work was done in evangelical churches, particularly those with Pentecostal practices.* Typical was Debi Nuhn, a teacher who had come 250 miles with her husband Tom and other members of the Word of Life Christian Church. Like Robertson, she said, members of her charismatic congregation were "born-again...
...chauvinistic in the worst "ugly-American" sense in its crude mockery of the ritual language of one of the Black minority religions discussed in my course. I urge you to contemplate the reaction of the Harvard community to an article written by a Black West Indian student which began with a contemptuous jeering at the beliefs of the Jewish or Catholic faiths...