Word: populistic
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...resistance to repeal has deep populist roots that are hard to dig out. And there is no point denying it: repealing the estate tax would benefit the superrich. Short of communism, any plan to get rid of a tax that many see as immoral is bound to help billionaires. So what? The barrels of ink spilled on this point miss the mark...
...Clinton-Gore position is an attempt to dodge the populist backlash and still do something for small-business owners and farmers. The increased exemption is a start, but it has a serious flaw: the exemption can be difficult to get. For example, heirs must be active in a business for a set amount of time. What if they'd rather go to college? Or are disabled...
...think you will see at Long Beach the fact that this is a Buchanan party, a conservative party, Reform party and populist party, and you will be surprised at the unanimity." (NYT, via "Fox News Sunday...
...have hit on a formula that will roil the muddy middle of American politics, from Bushies on the one side to Gorites on the other. Their plan is media-savvy and politically astute. Concurrent with the party conventions, an assortment of activists, professional pols and show-biz celebrities with populist pretensions (from stand-ups like Bill Maher to superstars like Warren Beatty) will gather for four days of speechifying, seminar giving and satirical merrymaking, all on the indisputable assumption that the national press corps (and the public) will be so starved for spectacle and spontaneity that it will lavish attention...
...curiously arbitrary trio of concerns--particularly the drug-war component, which scores scarcely a blip in any catalog of the public's disenchantments. Why single out drug laws instead of guns, for example, or the environment, or educational policy, or any of half a dozen issues with greater populist appeal...