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...that's as far as Buchanan's populism goes. Oddly, for a man who claims to be deeply moved by the plight of the working person, he has nothing to say about raising the minimum wage, banning the use of "replacement workers" as strike breakers, or defending occupational safety and health standards against the Republican onslaught. In fact, his economic program is little more than the old millionaire-friendly supply-side economics, garnished with a twist of nationalism. Business, says Buchanan, should be free to do whatever it wants, except perhaps flee across the border in search of even cheaper...
...Buchanan now embraces blue-collar Democrats as "my folks" hardly means he's been born again as a "left-winger." The only reason he can pass for a champion of the working class is that the Democrats have abdicated that role. Bill Clinton never seriously tried to raise the minimum wage or otherwise level the ground separating worker and boss; and anyone who thinks Clinton got into office and then "lunged to the left" must have trouble getting their shoes on the right feet in the morning. If we have a two-party system anymore, it consists of a Clinton...
...Republican Club on the issue of welfare. If he had been there, he would have seen the College Democrats offering not "a defense of the status quo" but exactly what he calls for in his editorial--"progressive" solutions to "end the pervasive cycle of poverty," such as raising the minimum wage, improving public education and job training, expanding tax credits for the working poor, providing child care for single parents who want to work and extending health care coverage for those who fear losing their Medicaid coverage by getting a job. We have been focusing on "real solutions." Mr. Cerny...
...French Socialist Party from the motley fragments of the non-Communist left. In 1981 he finally captured the presidency with the promise of an economic renaissance for the recession-bound country. In power for the first time since 1936, the Socialists launched a veritable revolution, nationalizing banks, raising the minimum wage and installing a wealth tax. Though these moves did spur consumer-driven growth, they also led to runaway inflation, a spiraling trade deficit and a sagging franc. Less than two years into the revolution, Mitterrand imposed stringent austerity measures to shore up the franc, ultimately turning his back...
...priority among the not-to-be-trifled-with House freshmen. The G.O.P. plan includes a $500-per-child tax credit for families, a reduction of the capital gains tax and a plan to make individual retirement accounts available to higher-income earners. For big business, it cuts the alternative minimum tax, which requires corporations to pay at least some tax even when they find enough deductions to offset their tax liability entirely. To Gingrich, the cuts also have a kind of world-historical psychological value. "You have to cut taxes,'' he says, "as a way of rewarding people for going...