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...election year when both major-party candidates are making education a top priority, one of the issues generating the most heated debate--and creating the most confusion among voters--is school vouchers, a controversial reform that uses tax dollars to help parents send their kids to private schools or hire private tutors. Statewide voucher proposals are on the ballot in California and Michigan. And George W. Bush advocates a federal voucher program that Gore opposes...
...clear things up with a quick-and-dirty look at where Al Gore and George W. Bush stand on the subjects that voters say matter: Abortion Campaign Finance Reform Death Penalty Education Environment Foreign Policy Gun Control Health Care National Security The Surplus Launch The Issues tool...
...year, but Bush's picture of Big Government Al didn't come into focus until Sept. 28. During a speech in Green Bay, Wis., Bush charged that Gore "has left the vital center of American politics ... (and) cast his lot with the old Democratic Party," betraying the reform-minded moderates that Gore helped propel to power in 1992. "The Vice President was seated right behind Bill Clinton at the State of the Union when the President declared, ?The era of Big Government is over,'" Bush said. "Apparently, the message never took ... He offers a big federal-spending program to nearly...
...order to stave off the eventual bankruptcy of Medicare and Social Security. He simply maintains that none of it will be necessary, as if wishing made it so. "The campaign mechanics, with their poll tests and dial meters, don't encourage a robust, full-flowering debate on entitlement reform," says a Gore adviser who is frustrated with the candidate's lack of honesty on the issue. Gore the candidate is trying to get elected; Gore the public official knows the day of reckoning will come. And if it comes sooner than expected - if the economy craters and the surpluses...
...Smaller, targeted, behavioral tax cuts, or a big, broad, blind one. Buy time for Social Security, or try to reform it. Increase the government's role in health care, or decrease it. Get the federal government on the education problem, or get the states to handle it. Spend more, or spend less. Stay out of Alaska, or drill it cautiously. Cheney may have encapsulated the evening's major tone shift with one comment on fixing public schools: "We think we know how to do that." Hey - we're both trying to help, and each of us thinks we know...