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...individuals with an adjusted gross income of $150,000 or more a year and for families earning at least $200,000. Clinton also wants to slap a 10% surtax on income of $1 million or more. And to help curb runaway executive pay, the President-elect may try to bar companies from deducting more than $1 million of an officer's compensation from corporate taxes, which was Disney's biggest worry. Clinton plans to use the money to offset a middle-class tax cut and finance such programs as infrastructure rebuilding and job training...
...making a killing keeping it that way." Kaplan knows the territory; during the Carter years, he was Walter Mondale's chief speechwriter. Having observed the problem at close range, Kaplan believes his engaging "entertainment" could "draw a little blood" in an era that has seen MTV and Arsenio help elect a President. "I'd like to keep the public's anger alive," says Kaplan. "This is obviously the time to get serious about campaign reform, which everyone in Washington claims to want. Maybe the film can help...
...maybe Bill Clinton can help too. Campaign reform is one of the five priorities enunciated by the President-elect following his victory. "There is a good reason public confidence in public officials is so low," Clinton has said. "It ought to be, because of the dominance of special interests over the political process and especially over the campaign-finance process. That's why I strongly support campaign-finance reform." Clinton is concerned as well because of Ross Perot. "Let's face it," says a Clinton aide, "the 20 million people who voted for Perot are the swing voters from...
...also endorsed a $1,000 limit on political-action- committ ee contributions, the same ceiling as currently exists for individual contributions. Those Clinton staff members charged with fleshing out his views hope for progress within the hallowed 100 days of F.D.R.-style action promised by the President-elect, but they have already encountered trouble. "For 12 years," says a Clinton adviser, "divided government prevented reform, and Democrats and Republicans piously blamed each other for the deadlock. The very good reform bill that passed last year made it out of the Congress only because the Democrats knew the President would veto...
...YULETIDE FLURRY OF CHEERY STATISTICS has done nothing to shake Bill Clinton's focus on the U.S. economy as his top priority. The President-elect's first major appointments, expected this week, will be his economic team. Clinton's choice for Treasury Secretary, aides say, is Lloyd Bentsen, the Senate Finance Committee chairman. The senior Senator from Texas, who was nominated for Vice President in 1988, is seen as having the stature and experience to steer Clinton's economic plan through Congress. Investment banker Roger Altman, a Treasury official in the Carter Administration, is said to be the leading contender...