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...Crimson eventually managed to hike its overall shooting percentage up to .564 (22 for 39), but the players could take little consolation in the improvement after the wrenching 5-point loss...
...addition, many believe that, in all likelihood, Clinton's tax hike will force them to hire fewer employees in the future. Only the most die-hard Keynesian still believes we can tax and spend our way to economic prosperity. Nonetheless, Clinton seems to fall into this category as even his health care plan involves higher taxes...
...Where he is right is that the past 12 years were great for the rich and not so great for the working man. But President Clinton had that in mind in the way he attacked the deficit. Economically, a much higher energy tax and a much lower income tax hike would have made more sense. But that would have been tough on the middle class. So Clinton chose to skew the tax hike almost entirely the other way. For the typical working man or woman, the only hike was on gasoline: about $30 a year. But for those lucky enough...
With 63 percent of New Jersey's vote counted,Whitman led 51 percent to 48 percent. Florio's$2.8 billion 1990 tax hike was the paramount issuein that contest, viewed as a test of whetherpoliticians could overcome public anger by sellingtaxes as tough but sometimes necessary medicine...