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...JUNK BONDS TO JAIL...
What makes sense, many economists are arguing, is to junk personal and corporate income taxes altogether for a single "direct-consumption tax" on what people spend rather than on what they earn. In some ways, a direct- consumption tax would resemble a reformulated income tax: it would be assessed by calculating an individual's total income and subtracting the amount that he or she saved and invested. All forms of income would be counted, including wages, interest, dividends, capital gains, Social Security benefits and employer-provided health insurance. The savings and investments that could be deducted might include spending...
...after one term. Like New Hampshire Senator Warren Rudman, who bailed out last month, Wirth cited his frustration over deadlock and partisan bickering on Capitol Hill. But like many fellow incumbents, he may also have foreseen a tough re-election campaign. In 1989 Wirth sought to ease restrictions on junk-bond trading; his opponents point out that the bankrupt investment firm Drexel Burnham Lambert -- which specialized in junk bonds -- contributed $41,000 to Wirth's campaigns...
...best pitcher we've faced," Co-Captain Chris Carr said. "She's quick and she had a lot of junk...
That politics appears only to be television spectacle denudes it--dissolves it into the rest of the homogenized junk on the airwaves--no more than a music video, or a sitcom or a made-for-TV movie; just as easy to tune out, just as irrelevant to daily life. The language of Madison Avenue is the language of pollsters is the language of politics...