Word: cut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush says the deficit is already declining, and will continue to be brought under control with modest measures. He proposes a cut in the capital gains tax, and a flexible freeze, under which he says total government spending can increase, but only at the rate of inflation...
Dukakis favors improved drug education and a meeting of Western Hemisphere political leaders to discuss the drug problem. He also said he would cut off foreign aid to Governments that refuse to cooperate on drug policy...
...referendum would have our elected representatives censure Israel for its actions rather than using American influence to bring both sides of the conflict together in negotiations. Calling for a complete cut-off of American aid to Israel is a blackmail tactic not befitting of reasoned foreign policy. Referenda should be for constructive purposes, not for partisan manipulation. It would be more productive for us to call on Israel to change its methods and start pushing for peace, than to cut off all effective ties with...
This is a law protecting the workers. If it did not exist, construction companies could submit lower bids on projects by cutting their employees' wages. Construction costs, except for labor, are fixed, so the only way to cut overall costs is to pay lower wages. Repealing the law would create larger profits for contractors but cut the earnings of their employees. It is the public works equivalent to cutting the minimum wage requirement, a return to days when labor had no government protection against abuse from self-interested employers...
...doesn't have values, who condones permissiveness, who's outside the mainstream. That's a perversion. Am I a liberal in the tradition of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman and John Kennedy? Yes, I am. I'm also a man who balanced budgets and cut taxes and put five times as many drug pushers in jail as my predecessor...