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...promising a fat tax cut in an election year, but he was caught flat-footed when the Clinton White House shot his plan full of holes the day before he announced it. Soldiering on, Dole announced today that his economic master plan will "downsize" the IRS, while making taxes "fairer, flatter and simpler." The plan may include sweeping capital gains tax exemptions for small business owners. While Dole himself is not ready to put a figure on a possible tax cut, his top aides say a plan to deliver a $600 billion cut over six years is under "serious consideration...
...political body during their primary bout, Steve Forbes went to Washington last week to join the great Republican transfusion. He was there to help Dole devise an appealing economic message, beyond the vague verbal parsley in his speeches about abolishing the irs and replacing it with "a flatter, fairer, simpler" income tax. Though Republicans know well from experience the appeal of tax reform, Dole runs a risk by adopting the supply-side theories he has long disparaged and swelling a deficit he has fought, often courageously, to contain...
...life sign hangers at Senator Arlen Specter's (R-Pen.) speech last spring and with the walkout at Charles Murray's bell curve harangue last fall) the ideal of free speech was undercut. Approximately 30 students walked out two minutes after Simpson's speech had begun. Protests are fairer and more effective when free speech is maintained...
...increases on the wealthy; that would sound too much like the old, liberal solutions Dionne wants to avoid. They Only Look Dead makes one feel good about the idea of government; but it is paying for government that drives people into the arms of the Republican Party. A fairer society can't be fudged into existence with warm, fuzzy phrases about "Progressivism" until the nation makes a genuine commitment to paying...
...current tax code a "7 million-word mess" and endorsed a flat tax, while leaving out specifics on what percentage should be taxed and what, if any, deductions should be preserved. Instead, the plan's centerpiece is "The Tax Test:" twelve principles to guide the creation of a fairer, flatter and simpler tax code. Gingrich told reporters the proposal constitutes the beginning of "a very, very bold and very different new debate." Kemp challenged Clinton to appoint a bipartisan, blue ribbon commission to draft the sepcifics. But while well-intentioned, Kemp's commission is rooted in politics, notes TIME...