Word: punishers
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...gold. The present tax code, he says, is "a source of political pollution. If you don't clear it out, the weeds will grow back again." And if a new tax system throws revenue projections out of whack, too bad. "If Congress can't get spending under control, why punish the rest of the nation?" he asks. Forbes' second area of concern is education, where he embraces the Republican idea of replacing what he calls the "inbred monopolistic structure" of the public schools with voucher plans. But on other social issues he is laissez-faire--moderately pro-choice, for instance...
...business, the larger, richer companies have an advantage, but is this unfair? The multi-billion dollar companies like AT&T and Microsoft achieved their corporate success through innovation, determination, and by providing a better product, whether it be long-distance calls or computer operating systems. Why should we punish them for being good? Isn't this detrimental to competition? What's the point of trying if you know that once you get to a certain point you'll have to start all over again because the government has ripped apart the corporation that you so painstakingly put together...
Lift the arms embargo on Croatia and Bosnia. Only an equity in weapons and force will draw the Serbs to the bargaining table. Moreover, the West must punish those responsible for atrocities; a lasting peace cannot be achieved unless those whose lives have been ripped apart by Serbia's rulers see justice done. It is long past time for the U.S. to take its stand as a world leader instead of a subordinate member of the U.N. Without American guidance and support to the democratic governments of Croatia and Bosnia, will peace ever come? ANDY DECKER Alexandria, Virginia...
...against up-and-coming green beret leader Ray Liotta. The two disagree over how to handle relations with a mountain village on the edge of the Ho Chi Minh trail, and while they are off on a scouting mission, a group of Viet Cong enter the village and punish the locals for helping Americans by shooting their elephant...
Those specters will probably push the two sides to a solution--this time. But other flash points abound. Already there are bitter disputes about cargo flights over the Pacific, complete with threats not to let each other's planes land, and an Eastman Kodak demand that Washington punish Japan for a supposed conspiracy that limits Kodak's sales of camera film there. The squabbling may boil over into global politics: Japan has announced that it will not join the U.S. in refusing to buy oil from Iran...