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...plan as "a waste of a golden opportunity," are leaning in favor of using the projected surplus to bulk up Social Security and Medicare. Only when those programs are secured, and the debt is paid down, they say, can Congress offer such a considerable cut. They also say the GOP plan unfairly favors the well-off, and claim that their plan will direct money to low- and middle-income taxpayers. These are old arguments, says Baumohl, and there won't be an easy resolution, at least not before the November election. "The Republicans see themselves with the political advantage," says...
...Census Bureau had suggested a way to avoid this undercount, using statistical techniques to determine a more accurate estimate of the total population. Unfortunately, these techniques (known as "statistical sampling") were banned last year by a GOP Congress concerned that the minorities and inner-city voters who comprise a disproportionate number of the undercounted would elect Democrats and that more accurate numbers would threaten Republican seats. (The same Congress later attempted to include the census as an "emergency" appropriation, presumably because no one could have predicted that the year 2000 would come exactly ten years after 1990.) The Supreme Court...
Farewell, Steve Forbes, we hardly knew ye.... Or, at least, we hardly knew ye as a social conservative. The multimillionaire publisher was reported Wednesday to be quitting the race for the GOP presidential nomination after a disappointing third-place finish in the tiny Delaware primary, which he won in '96 campaigning as a flat-taxman. Governor George W. Bush handily won the primary with 51 percent - and jokingly proclaimed the event, like Senator John McCain's New Hampshire upset, worthy of the front page of the weekly news magazines (forgetting, perhaps, that he'd previously garnered his own share...
...While Bush may be counting on collecting much of Forbes' conservative vote, it may not be that simple an equation: Although much of Forbes' support comes from social conservatives and those seeking lower taxes (both likely to back Bush), he also carried a contingent of people voting against the GOP establishment, a group likely to back McCain. As for Forbes' future, if his last repositioning is anything to go by, there'll be no surprise if he returns in 2004 - as a champion of campaign-finance reform...
...Still, the budget issue sure to inspire the heaviest cross-party sparring is tax cuts. Clinton proposed $150 billion over 10 years, including $45 billion to reduce the marriage penalty. The GOP has scaled back last year's failed $780 billion tax cut proposal, but still wants a considerably larger cut than Clinton proposed. The Republicans are facing an ugly dilemma: If they offer too large a cut, they look imprudent next to Clinton's anti-debt stance, but if they offer too small a package, they make the trillion-dollar cut favored by GOP presidential front-runner George...