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President Clinton has promised subsidies to small businesses and financial aid to the unemployed to help offset the cost of health care...
...Japan's automakers face increasingly tough, lean rivals. In the U.S., where total auto sales increased an estimated 1.5% in 1992 over the previous year, the once burgeoning Japanese share of the market has retreated slightly, to 30%. The strong yen and an attempt to inflate prices overseas to offset weak profits at home have made Japanese vehicles more expensive in the U.S. A mid-priced American-built car now typically costs $1,500 less than its Japanese counterpart. Another factor is that Japanese companies are weak in the light-truck category, where such vehicles as Dodge pickups...
...income of $1 million or more. And to help curb runaway executive pay, the President-elect may try to bar companies from deducting more than $1 million of an officer's compensation from corporate taxes, which was Disney's biggest worry. Clinton plans to use the money to offset a middle-class tax cut and finance such programs as infrastructure rebuilding and job training...
Finally, the most ambitious claim forwarded by "No on Three," that passage of the initiative would cost each Massachusetts family approximately $230, is also the most specious one. First of all, any increase in cost of living will at least partially be offset by reductions in the amount of money we now spend on incinerators and landfills. But, "No on Three" arrived at this $230 per family figure by assuming that all industries would need to adjust expensively their packaging methods and would then pass that burden onto the consumers, an assumption that is patently false. Many packaging industries--such...
...Clinton's proposed tax hikes for the nation, his figures add up to a $46 billion tax increase (the $150 billion is offset by $104 billion in tax cuts). This is nearly $100 billion less than Bush raised taxes in 1990 (thus making himself a liar by rejecting his 1988 promise of no new taxes...