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...defang government, Gingrich would defund it. He and his party are insisting on $245 billion in tax cuts as a centerpiece of their effort. But is this great tax reduction flowing back into the pockets of all Americans? No. The tax reductions were, in part, a sop to the G.O.P. moralists who bemoan the dissolution of the family. The "family" tax cuts were aimed at people raising children, but not at all people raising children. The credits are worthless to the families in which a third of American children live, because those families don't earn enough to pay income...
Nevertheless, Oser added that "the Senate vote to defund Americorps will reduce the opportunities of Harvard students to work in grassroots service projects and receive financial support for their work...
...made it hard for children to believe in the tooth fairy. And Cass Ballenger, a North Carolina plastic-packaging manufacturer, says labyrinthine EPA rules have cost his business more than $1 million. Now, in the name of regulatory reform, DeLay, Norwood and Ballenger are attempting to de-fang and defund their old bureaucratic nemeses. Yet a closer look at their tales reveals that in terms of accuracy, they are more suited to the campfire than Congress...
...this comes on top of another effort to cut off the revenue flow to the enemies of the revolution. For months now, liberal lobbyists and nonprofit organizations have been charging that the Republicans are trying to "defund the left" by challenging the tax-exempt status of organizations that both receive tax subsidies and lobby Congress. Such reform might be thought to hit conservative groups like the N.R.A. just as hard as Planned Parenthood and the Sierra Club, but conservative groups actually tend to rely more on private donations and are not so dependent on government funds as liberal groups...
...pollution issue looks like an easy win for the Republicans, it's not a clean sweep. As the debate develops in weeks to come, the soft spots in their arguments are likely to become more apparent. For a party committed to free-market principles -- and which also wants to defund public television and end government oversight of the airwaves -- a problem is that pop culture represents the free market at its freest, meaning most able to make a profitable pitch to the grosser appetites. Some of the most violent American films, like the Stallone-Willis-Schwarzenegger action pictures, are also...