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...from now with another appeal to sacrifice. Less than 48 hours after hitting up Americans for $246 billion in new taxes over four years, Clinton was already discussing the idea of a national sales tax as if it were a not too distant possibility. "I did not mean to float a trial balloon," Clinton said Friday, as the issue threatened to engulf his campaign to push his first round of tax proposals. Meanwhile in Washington, Clinton's Budget Director, Leon Panetta, brought up the likelihood of new taxes on guns, alcohol and tobacco. "It's a bit too early...
...Reich float the $15 billion figure, but it didn't make a splash. Upped it to $30b, and now they pay attention. Good. The key is that growth be remembered as Clinton growth...
Aides to Clinton emphasize that he has not reached a decision on any of these new levies. As press secretary Dee Dee Myers observed of Clinton in a PBS documentary broadcast last week, "He likes to float things out there to see what the reaction is." These trial balloons are sure to draw heavy fire, but some are sure to survive, according to several sources familiar with the deliberations...
...apart, of each patch of sky. After developing the film in the observatory darkroom, he turns the negatives over to Carolyn, who scans each set of two under her stereo microscope. If anything has moved against the background of fixed stars during the 40-min. interval, it appears to float in the eyepiece. If so, it is an asteroid or comet and might someday present a threat...
...told us about a saxophone player in Kansas City named Charlie Parker or a bass player in Minneapolis named Oscar Pettiford." Dizzy brought them all together to play at a fabled Harlem joint called Minton's, where, after the regular sessions, strange scrambled rhythms and impossible harmonies would float toward the dawn. It was, indeed...