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Forbes' vision of America is a more radical one than his charmingly goofy smile might suggest. To Forbes, Newt Gingrich is not a revolutionary but an incrementalist, and the Republican budget is just Tax-and-Spend Lite. His flat tax is also an enormous tax cut that he concedes will raise $40 billion less in revenue than the tax system does now; the group Citizens for Tax Justice, a generally liberal think tank, estimates a 17% flat tax would produce a shortfall of $200 billion. And never mind turning matters back to the states: Forbes...
Thanks, Kristy. The Only problem is that desensitization doesn't always work in such a dramatic (or obvious), way. We aren't always aware of how it is affecting us, for a variety of reasons, Desensitization functions in a gradual, incrementalist way, making it difficult to monitor how we're being affected. More fundamentally, none of us are capable of fully escaping from our own subject position. In other words, we can't step outside of ourselves and say, "Ah ha! I see that I have been negatively affected by watching `Pulp Fiction.' I must now watch two hours...
...creative--not for social programs, where his spending is generally generous but his innovations negligible, and not in taxing, where he's maintained the status quo. (His prison-building record could make Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY) blush, though.) He's called by friend and foe alike an "incrementalist"--not a true reformer...
...Governor, Cuomo is, in a way, handicapped by his own eloquence; his vaulting rhetoric creates equally lofty expectations. In reality, he is something of an incrementalist, creating a pattern of change in small ways. "Stone by stone, we cross the morass," he likes to say, quoting Justice Learned Hand...
...more valid charge against Shultz is that he is no grand strategist. He acts like the foreman of a crew of diplomatic construction workers rather than a statesman pursuing an overall design. The Secretary is a devoted incrementalist. He cannot and does not claim any major breakthroughs, but says that during his tenure the U.S. has developed a consistency in its handling of relations with the Soviets, eased tensions with European allies and seen more democratic governments take root in Central America. Progress, he believes, can be made only by a kind of patient chipping away at encrusted differences rather...