Word: postcarded
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Although Joshua Kaufman has clearly been sold on the "simplicity" of Senator Arlen Specter's postcard plan for income tax in America, his column ("Politics, Not Props," Sept. 25, 1995) reflects his failure to see through the gloss of Specter's Flat Tax Plan brochure (yes, it was glossy, too, just like all the others) and analyze Specter's spiffy graph and crafty doublespeak...
Specter is also calling for a 20 percent flat income tax payable on a postcard. Though the proposal is not original, its simplicity is a good selling point for a public largely disenchanted with bloated government. Specter not-improbably claims that the measure would lower real interest rates by two points, raise per capita income by $1,900 and add two trillion dollars to the U.S. economy over the next seven years, a boost in prosperity which would benefit...
...then, after you mailed back the postcard saying, "yes, of course I accept, are you kidding," then you started hearing it, it seemed, from everybody. "So you're going to Harvard...
...your velvet-covered pangolin that few readers will be distracted by the loose grammar and exotic similes. Conroy will simply overwhelm them with his leapfrogging plots and romantic scenery: a movie-set Rome, a travel-book Venice and the postcard-pretty South Carolina coast. Too tame? Then just wait for the women who set fire to abusive men, the attack of the giant manta ray, and the general's daughter and the private who are blown up by a war protester's bomb while making love in a parked...
Considering that I didn't receive your postcard before the three days were up, I assume you have been eaten. Oh, well. You should have used Fed Ex. If, for some reason, you get this week's FM and you're still alive, here's my advice: first, eat the pigeon-you must be hungry; second, save yourself and join the Boston Church of Christ like they've asked-it's not a cult, really...