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...government deceives the public in other ways about its "miracle money-raiser." Lotteries do not keep taxes low--unless the analysis is limited to the wealthy. It has been shown in numerous studies that lotteries act as a regressive tax. Poor people, chasing the dream of hitting the jackpot, throw away a significantly larger proportion of their disposable income, and often some of their nondisposable income, than do the middle and upper classes...
...body politic, destroying families, stealing food from the mouths of children, turning wives into widows," he said, noting that in 1994 the Republican Party accepted more than $1 million in gaming-industry funds. Without specifically mentioning Senator Bob Dole, who reaped $477,000 at a single Las Vegas fund raiser last June, Reed warned that any G.O.P. candidate dependent on gambling contributions is "going to have serious problems with the pro-family community...
...once again turning to a favorite President for inspiration: Woodruff became Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan. He opened a flagship office in Little Rock and began seeing the Clintons socially again (Bill had won back the Governor's job in 1982). Thus McDougal happily agreed to hold a fund raiser for Bill at his S&L in April 1985. The event raised...
...then seemed to have second thoughts about his belated impulse. The day after he came aboard he was disturbed to learn that Forbes was planning a new round of negative ads. Kemp telephoned Dole headquarters, wanting to speak to the Senator. "The good news," said a top Dole fund raiser, "is that Dole has a short memory. He'll probably forgive Jack in about 50 years...
Much of the segment's footage was shot last Sunday at the University Fund Raiser, a ballroom dance competition held in Revere, Mass., for college clubs across the East coast...