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...percent increase in the number of early applicants offset the drop, resulting in an overall increase of 1 percent, the smallest rise since...
...Offset with the hyperreality of the homeless characters in the audience (several audience members drew close their valuables or else took out change to give the actors, assuming they were authentic), the sum effect is one of deranged imbalance. This is especially true when a jazz band takes the stage and the homeless pair perform a choreographed dance and pretend to be playing along on tubes shaped like saxophones and guitars. The scene is perplexing, pointless, and childishly extreme...
...year in revenues. Given such a sum and prior experience with the Reagan era tax cuts, Forbes' claim that economic growth would more than compensate for the lost revenue cannot be taken seriously. The Reagan-era tax cuts generated only enough additional revenue through the supply-side to offset a third of the lost revenues. Forbes' proposal is unlikely to do three times as well...
Gramm has shrewdly focused on states where his message has greater purchase. He aims to win in Louisiana's little-watched caucuses six days before the Iowa contest and to offset the impact of a likely Dole victory in New Hampshire on Feb. 20 with a win in Delaware four days later. The former economics professor and onetime Democrat hopes to be ahead in delegates by March 1 and "break out" with a win in conservative South Carolina on March...
...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 through the process of change...