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...flooding the airwaves. A new one will remind voters that Forbes' flat-tax plan would end their cherished property-tax deduction. Encouraged by Dole staffers, special-interest groups have pitched in with statements like the one from a realtors' group equating the flat tax to a "bad apple pie. It looks good until...
TIME: It seems to me that some level of the debate has been between people who believe that you have finite resources and how are we going to divide the pie, and people who believe that the way to ameliorate poverty is to create wealth and that you can create models for more dynamic growth. If that's correct, then would Patrick Buchanan fit in the opponents' camp, or would he fit in your camp...
Arizona seized an opportunity no longer open to the rest of the country: the state never had an entrenched Medicaid system in place. By 1982, though, county governments were going broke struggling to provide indigent health care. The state decided it needed a piece of the federal Medicaid pie but not under the standard federal conditions. Arizona legislators took their state's clean slate and drew up their own blueprint for a Medicaid system...
...these economic consequences of the budget deficit lead to less economic growth and more wage stagnation. The result is a weaker and poorer America filled with citizens battling over a steadily shrinking economic pie. Perhaps in such an economic climate the Democratic party would thrive given its ability to cater to special interest groups...
...real raise in years, see their choice as between Newtonian trickle-down economics and Buchananist nativist-protectionism, they'll take the latter. The economy is growing, but almost nothing is trickling down. Even though Buchananism would stifle growth, some might find a larger slice of a smaller pie better than a shrinking slice of a growing pie. Is there a third option? Can we have our growing piece of pie and most of us eat it too? Yes. The basic problem is an oversupply of unskilled workers and a shortage of skilled workers. So we need to subsidize college loans...