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...emphasize tax policy in the final weeks of the campaign. After all, the tax issue should be a liability for Bush rather than an asset, representing easy fodder for the attacks of Vice President Al Gore '69. Gore's charges have merit: as a whole, the Bush tax reforms would represent a step backward in the search for a fair and progressive tax policy. Unfortunately, given the current political climate, both candidates' tax plans have focused concern on middle-class and wealthy Americans rather than the poor, and neither man has presented an adequate proposal for general reform...
...many ways, the credits proposed by Gore represent spending programs under a different name. But the aims of the programs are admirable: we are very glad to see Gore's proposal to expand the EITC, a program which rewards the working poor and softens the blow of welfare reform, and we support government encouragement of personal savings and of investment in education and environmental protection...
...says the program's current efforts at internal reform will further the group's goals of raising more funds, recruiting more volunteers and establishing a more prominent community presence...
...Bush will call Gore the "obstacle-in-chief" to government reform, as he did in Iowa Monday. He'll talk about big-spending liberals, and the futility of going to Congress with your dukes up, and how states, towns and ordinary people can spend their money better than Washington can. And he'll be offering them their money back. Gore talks about surplus reinvestment, Bush about a surplus dividend. Gore is running as a book-devouring pugilist; Bush as a backslapping manager who'll get all the thinkers on the same page...
...Klansman David Duke in his run for Governor. Powell, a Tulane University history professor, tells this tale with wonderful narrative grace and moral force. He deftly explores ethical compromises and nuances: the Levy family's decision to pass as Aryan during the war; the struggles between the assimilated Reform Jews of New Orleans, reluctant to stir up trouble; and the tight-knit "New American" club of Holocaust survivors who insisted on aggressively bearing witness against neo-Nazis...