Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A. Go back and do a lot of research on the campaign. Go back and check. You know, Dukakis got on me on ((the Administration's surcharge for)) catastrophic illness, claiming that was a tax. I said, "I don't think it was a tax." That might be a helpful...
The personable Boskin was one of the main architects of Bush's flexible- freeze plan for cutting the budget deficit without raising taxes. To make ^ the freeze work, the Bush team would have to limit increases on most domestic spending to the inflation rate and at the same time boost...
Yet a Bush "victory" in retreating from no new taxes would cheat the electorate of a fundamental choice. In a democracy, the central questions are who pays and who gets. How a government taxes depends on its rulers' political philosophy. Had new revenues been required in a Democratic Administration, Michael...
A native of Columbus, Duffy, 30, graduated from Oberlin College in 1980, then went to work as a military-affairs reporter in Washington. Five years later, he signed on with TIME, reporting first on the Pentagon, then moving to Capitol Hill before joining the campaign trail last year to cover...
Brown is able to speak in both black and white. At the Democratic Convention, after he and Paul Brountas settled most of the disputes between Jackson and Michael Dukakis, the four men gathered for a breakfast summit. One issue defied resolution: the nature of the "partnership" that Jackson was demanding...