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...TAXES] Promises a 15% cut in federal income taxes. Favors a "flatter, simpler" tax system, a 50% cut in the capital-gains tax, a child tax credit similar to Clinton's and a constitutional amendment requiring a three-fifths vote in Congress to raise taxes...
Enzi won the G.O.P. primary by a narrow 2,000-vote margin. His conservative platform includes a "simpler, flatter" tax system and more state control of federal lands. Enzi hopes to profit from the endorsement of popular retiring Senator Alan Simpson and a solid state tradition of Republican representation...
...this is the lean, fat-free 1990s, and superpremium ice-cream sales have been flatter than Nebraska, which makes Ben & Jerry's just another company with a management problem. So forget all the sugary explanations heard since CEO Robert Holland said on Sept. 27 that he would resign. The party line: Holland accomplished his mission, solving production problems and launching critical expansions into new products and countries; now the company needs a CEO with greater marketing skills...
...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." A universal 15 percent cut, to roll...
...Dole's 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...