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...deployment of SDI. CENTRAL AMERICA: Favors military and economic aid to the contras, and opposes the Arias peace plan. DEFICIT: Favors a balanced budget amendment. Will consider cutting some domestic programs while freezing spending on all programs, except low-income programs. TAXES: Will not raise taxes. Favors an oil import tax, with cost reductions for home heating oil. TRADE: Is against Gephardt amendment, but agrees that some action must be taken against nations that practice unfair trade...
ARMS CONTROL: Opposes the developmentand deployment of SDI. Favors a comprehensivestrategic arms agreement with the Soviet Union anda comprehensive test ban treaty. CENTRALAMERICA: Against contra aid, supports theContadora peace process. Supports U.S. economicaid to the region. Argues that the problems inMexico are more important to the U.S. than thosein Nicaragua. DEFICIT: Proposes to freezedefense spending to reduce the deficit. Says arevenue enforcement program will bring billions ofdollars back to the government, but does not ruleout raising taxes as a last resort. Agasinst anoil import fee. EDUCATION: Says the federalgovernment must offer scholarship incentives forcollege students to enter the teaching field.Would...
...contras.Supports Arias peace plan. DEFICIT: Willreduce the deficit by up to $40 billion per yearby freezing military spending and imposing an oilimport fee. EDUCATION: Says federalgovernment should give matching funds to parentswho invest money in accounts specifically fortheir children's education. TAXES: Favors a$5-a-barrel oil import fee, against raising taxes.TRADE: Sponsored legislation that allowsthe U.S. government to place tarrifs on theproducts of any nation that fails to provide fairtrade opportunities...
Campaigns, according to the civics texts and good-government groups, are supposed to be about issues and ideas, ideology and vision. Focusing on personality and manner is trivial. Yet this year, the fight for the Republican nomination involves something far more important than artificial differences on oil-import fees or taxes. It is a struggle between styles and temperaments that go to the heart of the kind of President each would...
Increase the gasoline tax. Boosting the levy by 20 cents, to 29 cents per | gal., would encourage energy conservation. It would raise $18 billion, of which $2 billion could be rebated to low-income households in income-tax credits. One alternative, imposing an oil-import fee, would be less preferable because it would fall disproportionately on those who rely on oil heat. $16 billion...