Word: dukakises
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Dukakis announced last week that he would not seek reelection in 1990, a move observers say will make it necessary for him to aggressively defend the policies of the last six years. The governor has decided that a tax increase is necessary to preserve his administration's social programs, State...
While in last week's address Dukakis lambasted his fiscal critics as "gutless wonders" and denied that further spending cuts were needed to reduce the state's $636 million budget shortfall, he hinted that new taxes would soon be proposed.
Since Dukakis returned to Massachusetts after his defeat in the November presidential elections, he has been considering spending cuts, which many legislative leaders have called for, and the political risk of requesting a tax increase.
But former Boston City Councillor Lawrence S. DiCara '71, a Dukakis ally, says the increase shows that Dukakis is placing what is politically prudent.
Bush's blue-blood ancestry and his Yale education certainly don't qualify him for that praise. And though Gov. Michael S. Dukakis is hardly a farm-boy himself, he comes closer than Bush to matching the class aspirations of most rural Southern voters. Yet they went for Bush in...