Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than any other wing of the party, the young Turks have come up with new ideas, including the fervently advocated Kemp-proposed tax cut that Reagan pushed through in 1981. They are often called "populist conservatives" (pop-cons, for short) and argue that rich and poor alike would benefit from their economic programs. Not all the ideas are universally admired, to be sure. A modified "flat tax" on personal income, endorsed by the platform as "a most promising approach," would eliminate loopholes that allow many of the rich to evade taxes, and it would set a single rate...
...said, "It amazes me that people would think this is not a cross section of the American public." She waved an encompassing arm at the room full of overwhelmingly white, conservative, married women whose greatest mark of diversity was whether they wore silk or synthetic. They were not all rich, but they were, certainly, women who could afford a choice of life's options without worrying about child care or job training. Even so, the message that they delivered from the Dallas showcase in this, the year of women in politics, was decidedly mixed...
...Reagan. More generally, and more important, they think he would do a better job of advancing the interests of the poor (58% to 23%) and of helping the all-important middle class (44% to 34%). Two-thirds of those polled think Reagan would do a better job for the rich, vs. only 7% who say that about Mondale; that, however, is hardly a finding the President would be inclined to trumpet...
...rich get richer and the poor get poorer. That unpleasant maxim seems to sum up the message of The Reagan Record, a 400-page study released last week by the Urban Institute, a respected nonpartisan think tank in Washington...
...They frequently complain about low profit margins and competition from IBM's own sales force. But after being wined and dined in Texas last week, one New Jersey computer dealer observed, "I've got to learn to love these guys because they are going to make me rich." -By Alexander L Taylor III. Reported by Thomas McCarroll/New York and Mark Smith/San Francisco