Word: hiked
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Blute's moderate voting record has earned him a solid base of support in the historically Democratic Third District. He broke party ranks to support the Brady Bill, the minimum-wage hike and the Family and Medical Leave Act, but maintains his fiscal conservatism by working for a balanced-budget amendment and requiring a three-fifths "supermajority" to raise taxes...
Clinton will lie to get elected. He lied in the 1992 campaign when he promised that he would lower middle class taxes. How sincere was Clinton then? Clinton's promises did not get in his way when, in 1993, Clinton gave us the largest retroactive tax hike in history...
...always believe him." Defined "liberal" as the "golden oldie" of past Republican presidential campaigns, adding: "I just don't think that dog will hunt this time." "Saddam Hussein is probably better off than four years ago." Quoting Jack Kemp as saying Dole never "met a tax he didn't hike. "Supports electronic gun control checks. If they register "tilt," the buyer "gets zippo." "I hate drugs, Senator." "Great Britain--they've always been loyal to us." "It is not midnight in America, Senator." "My blood pressure's lower, my weight and my cholestorol. But I don't want to make...
...This is a very liberal administration," said Dole, who in most polls is trailing Clinton by double digits only a month before the Nov. 5 election. "This is the administration that gave you the big tax [hike]. This is the administration that tried to take over health care and impose a governmental system...
Weld's version of triangulation--positioning himself between both parties--does not always succeed. He caused a fury in late 1994 when he rewarded Democratic legislators backing his capital-gains tax cut with a big salary hike. His reliance on old-style patronage was evident in June 1995, when he threw his support behind an anachronistic state mandate that only off-duty police officers be hired to oversee roadwork...