Word: lugar
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Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, a foreign affairs expert and an advocate of replacing the federal income tax with a national sales tax, became the eighth Republican contender to formally enter the 1996 presidential race...
...permit Americans to deduct every dollar they save and invest. The plan, asimplification of the tax codealong the lines of the Individual Retirement Account, arrives just as federal income tax reform is shaping up as a major issue in the1996 presidential election. GOP senators and White House hopefulsRichard Lugar of IndianaandArlen Specter of Pennsylvaniahave already embraced a "flat tax," andBob Doleis thinking it over...
Visiting Iowa today ten months before the presidential caucuses, President Clinton promised to protect farm subsidiesfrom the deep cuts proposed by the GOP. While Clinton wants to cut the $10 billion program by $1.5 billion over the next five years, Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind) has suggested cuts ten times as large. The President stressed that planned GOP spending cuts target programs needed by small family farms...
...with a single rate, a large personal exemption and few or no other deductions. One such plan is sponsored by House majority leader Dick Armey of Texas and another by Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, a candidate for his party's nomination for President. Another presidential hopeful, Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, last week announced his plan to abolish both the income tax and the irs in favor of a national retail-sales tax, to be collected by the states. Under his system, Lugar said, "the money you earn is yours. You need not account for it, report...
Foreign policy is on no one's radar scope yet, except Richard Lugar's. Usually when matters abroad are discussed, Lugar's expertise commands bipartisan respect. But now that he's after the big prize, even Lugar has veered offtrack. When Saddam Hussein recently jailed two Americans for straying into Iraq-an action requiring deft diplomacy-Lugar waxed on about sending the Marines to rescue them...