Word: platform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Middle Americans are paying more for their hypocrisy than they realize. Democrats are so afraid of appearing "liberal" that they rejected a platform proposal to increase taxes on people making more than $100,000 a year. They wince as Bush scores points off of Dukakis' recent 5 cents-a-pack increase in the Massachusetts cigarette tax. Meanwhile, the annual Social Security surplus is contributing $40 billion a year toward covering Reagan's deficits, thanks to a Reagan-endorsed 1983 increase in the Social Security tax -- a flat tax on wages that exempts dividends, interest, profits and all income over...
...hard to believe this year's mushy Democratic platform was written by the same man, Theodore Sorensen, who helped write J.F.K.'s "Ask not what your country can do for you." These days no politician of either party dares to ask people to do anything for their country...
...curious way, more like a cathartic lovers' spat than a critical negotiation between two political heavyweights. Platform planks, staff integration and legislative positions were among the issues on the table. But emotional matters were at the heart of the three-hour meeting that Michael Dukakis had with Jesse Jackson in Atlanta on Monday just before the 40th Democratic National Convention was gaveled into session. The talk was mainly of hurt feelings and misunderstood gestures, sensitivity and communication. In the jargon of modern romance, Dukakis and Jackson were trying to make their relationship work...
...some Democratic demands for Reagan to seek congressional approval under the War Powers Act, especially after an Iraqi jet accidentally hit the U.S. frigate Stark with an Exocet missile, killing 37 American sailors. But political heat died down as the U.S. oil convoys continued to function. The Democratic Party platform adopted last week, for example, endorsed freedom of navigation in the gulf as a desirable U.S. foreign-policy objective...
...Similar bills, introduced in the Senate by Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy and in the House by California Democrat Augustus Hawkins, would increase the base pay of American workers to $4.55 by 1991 and then automatically peg it to 50% of the national average wage (currently $9.28). The Democratic Party platform adopted in Atlanta last week calls for a minimum that rises automatically with inflation. But lawmakers have bogged down in a debate over whether the move would help or hurt its intended beneficiaries -- the working poor...