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...part, Gore expects to score his biggest points when he presses Bush to delve into the fine print of his own proposals--for instance, how he plans to pay the estimated $1 trillion it will cost to reshape Social Security into a system that will let Americans invest part of their premiums. Gore's people believe Bush has the rigor and tight message to get through the first two answers but that his riff will begin to sound thin in the back-and-forth. Here too they hope to get to what they see as the point of their endeavor...
...vice president would spend part of about $115 billion to boost teacher salaries, provided the instructor is certified. He'd force under-performing schools to shape up. He also promises to triple the number of charter schools. Gore would also allow parents to invest in a tax-free savings account for college tuition...
John Roemer, a professor of political science at Yale who specializes in the economy, says that neither candidate is taking the necessary steps to invest in K-12 education...
Bush would allow younger workers to invest part of their payroll taxes--about 2 percent of their income--in personal retirement accounts. He promises not to raise payroll taxes and says he won't cut benefits for current retirees. Since the money paid into Social Security by workers now is paid directly to older beneficiaries, the Gore campaign wonders where Bush will make up the incomes slated for the new personal retirement accounts...
...effect, importing about $400 billion in net investment this year, says Lindsey, the U.S. has become more dependent on foreign capital than at any time since 1896--or, says Wyss, since the 1860s. And if those overseas centimillionaires change their mind about the best place to invest, the U.S. would get hit with a double whammy. It would lose some of the investment that has been keeping the boom going, and the dollar's value would fall, raising the cost of imports and the many U.S. products that are assembled partly from imported components. Feldstein figures a 15% drop...