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...indecisive way, Garth Brooks has become a sort of Ross Perot of country music. First he suggests he may quit performing. Then he says he's back in. Now, on his new album, In Pieces, Brooks has made one of his worst decisions by recording a misguided anthem titled American Honky-Tonk Bar Association. In this song, over a beat as rambunctious as a mechanical bull, this most favored of country stylists asks listeners to join with the "hardhat, gunrack, achin'-back, over-taxed, flag-wavin' fun-lovin' crowd," especially if they're upset when their "dollar goes...
Supreme Court Justice/Ross Perot's sometime tax attorney; nice jobs to have these days...
When Ross Perot began running for President, he found a convenient excuse to avoid discussing specifics: he'd left them at home. You'd think that after a year he'd know better, but not much has changed...
...emphasis on debt taming is neo-Republican -- an accommodation to Ross Perot and the financial establishment's doomsayers -- the methodology of Clinton's deficit reduction is very much his own. Tax "fairness" (to use the President's word) is real. Nearly 80% of the increases fall on the top 1.2% of taxpayers, a refutation of supply-side theory. The 4.3 cents-per-gal. hike in gasoline taxes can be criticized as a broken promise since it hits the middle class hardest, but given that the typical driver will pay only about $33 more , a year, the burden is hardly staggering...
Actually, Ross Perot, Paul Tsongas and Lee Iacocca -- men of considerable popularity -- have proposed even stiffer medicine. Presumably, the millions of Americans who consider themselves Perot-lees favor his 50 cents per gal. phased in over five years. But 4.3 cents a year forever wouldn't be half bad either...