Word: repeals
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...message to court voters whose wages have stayed flat or fallen while corporate earnings and executive salaries have soared. He claims both parties are too willing to "bow down to a gold calf" of free trade, sacrificing "American jobs on the altars of transnational corporations." He wants to repeal NAFTA and GATT, end foreign aid within five years, and slap across-the-board tariffs on Japanese and Chinese goods...
...fixed,"the House Ways and Means Committee chairman has begun a week of hearings aimed at junking the 82-year-old system. In its place, Archer would institute a national sales tax or some other way of raising revenue. Just to make sure his plan sticks, he wants to repeal the16th Amendment, which authorized the federal income tax in the first place. Legislators do not expect to act before the 1996 elections, butTIME Washington economics correspondent Suneel Ratansays the Republican primaries promise to become a healthy free-for-all in which each candidate will push his own tax reform plan...
...President and at the same time meet the conflicting demands of being Senate majority leader. The two jobs work at cross-purposes: G.O.P. hopefuls have to run to the right, which helps explain why Dole took the no-tax pledge in New Hampshire and vowed to help repeal the assault-weapons ban. Majority leaders, meanwhile, have to build links to the party's center to win Senate approval of such measures as the $1 trillion budget that promises some tax cuts but stops short of the $353 billion giveaway favored by Gramm. Candidate Dole's lurch to the right...
...practice firearm safety," he said. But now Guzman, 41, a sign-shop owner, is thinking of quitting the organization. While he supports the N.R.A.'s education programs, he is disturbed that in the midst of public anxiety about antigovernment violence, the N.R.A. is plowing ahead with its campaign to repeal the federal ban on assault weapons. And he takes issue with the N.R.A. fund-raising letter that called federal officials "jackbooted government thugs," the language that prompted former President Bush to quit the N.R.A. "George Bush has really opened my eyes," says Guzman. "The N.R.A. is too much...
...power, it still holds only a feeble minority of the national population and opinion. Despite the fact that approximately two-thirds of the nation supports gun control, the NRA has marshalled for a repeal of the landmark Brady Bill. With 3.5 million loyal and voting members, the NRA's voice is also heard disproportionately in elections; they compose little over one percent of the population yet five percent of regular voters...