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...year's Civil Rights Act, which Buchanan calls an unjust quota bill. Buchanan rails against illegal immigrants, who he claims are draining taxpayer dollars. He wants to slash the size of the Federal Government, freeze government regulations for two years and roll back half of Congress's recent pay hike. He also wants to clamp term limits on "those check-kiting, boodling Congressmen on Capitol Hill." In one of his nastier pitches, he attacks the National Endowment for the Arts as "that upholstered playpen of the arts and crafts auxiliary of the Eastern liberal Establishment...
...would hike the top tax bracket for those earning more than $200,000--those who have received huge windfalls in tax breaks during the Reagan-Bush years. With this money, he would spark a short-term jump in the economy by cutting taxes for those earning less than...
Some of the money would come from restrictions on federal payments for Medicaid, the program that serves 27 million Americans, including half of all nursing-home patients. The plan would also hike Medicare premiums for the wealthy, an idea that is certain to provoke protests. In 1988, the last time Congress attempted to make upper-income retirees pay more, a revolt among seniors forced repeal of the catastrophic-care law the following year. Fear of a similar backlash led Bush advisers to drop the idea of reducing tax deductions for company-paid health insurance, a subsidy expected to cost...
Michael P. Beys '94, the council's newly-elected treasurer, and Scott B. Logan '94 said they expect to lose approximately $80 on Wednesday night's Spin Doctors concert due to a smaller than expected crowd and a last minute price hike by the band...
...This hike is typical for many rent controltenants who marched yesterday; most claimed thatrents have nearly doubled in the past two yearsalone. Antonio Perez, who has only lived on MarketStreet for six months said he has already seen a$36 increase in his rent...