Word: flatly
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Benjamin, a former investment banker, founded the New York Benevolence Council, a nonprofit group that assists disadvantaged New Yorkers. The self-described "centrist Republican" is pro-choice and anti-death penalty; he also favors a flat 17% income tax and tough sentences for criminals with the "three strikes" rule and "truth in sentencing" legislation to require convicts to serve at least 85% of their jail time. But this newcomer needs an upset to win where Clinton got 60% of the vote...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The pro-gun arguments...are as flaky as the arguments of the tiny few who still insist that the earth is flat...
Though defeated by Robert Matsui by a wide margin in the past two elections, Dinsmore hasn't given up his quest to make principle, not partisanship, the basis for political behavior. Those principles, he believes, dictate the need for a flat tax ("a type of wealth tax parallel to the property tax") and abolishing the deficit ("the unfair shifting to future generations the obligation to pay for programs that benefit current citizens"). A 59% Democratic registration in the Fifth makes it unlikely that this third time will be the charm for Dinsmore...
...nonsense Republican, Hobson has used his business experience to negotiate things like NAFTA protections for flat grass and broomcorn--farmed in his district--and lobby against the American Automobile Labeling Act for constituents who work at the local Honda factory...
Bruun, a 30-year-old superachiever, is loaded with ideas for growing the economy and limiting government. He believes in term limits, privatization and a 17% flat tax with substantial exemptions and deductions for charity. A fiscal conservative, he may be able to count on G.O.P. votes in Portland's exclusive section of Dunthorpe, but the working-class and middle-class neighborhoods in the rest of the district are staunchly Democratic. And though he vows to protect Medicare, his platform of budget cuts may rattle the strong senior-citizen vote that helped keep Democrat Ron Wyden in this seat...