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...stock market is levitating and unemployment is falling around election time, 21 months from now, when most of the benefits will start to kick in, Republicans believe that key voting groups like married couples and seniors will not really care if the rich got richer as long as they did too. "Our first challenge is to allow Americans to keep more of their money so they can spend and save and invest," Bush said in announcing the program in Chicago last Tuesday...
...Written in a visual language that would otherwise have taken up thousands of words of prose, comix allow not only for a more efficient and less expensive approach to memoir, but a richer one as well. "Ride Together" and "Tuesday" are just two fine examples of this arguably superior method of relating personal history...
WASHINGTON Christmas in January President George W. Bush proposed an audacious tax-cut program - one he hopes will jump-start the sputtering U.S. economy. The plan, which would eliminates taxes on corporate dividends, delighted Wall Street but led Democrats to charge that Bush was merely making the rich richer. To counteract that criticism, the package also includes a rise in child and married-couples tax allowances. In addition, tax-rate cuts scheduled for 2004 and 2006 would be introduced immediately. "Our first challenge is to allow Americans to keep more of their money so they can spend and save...
...RICH GET RICHER. While federal recognition entitles tribes to a broad range of government benefits, there is no means testing. In 2001, aid to Indians amounted to $9.4 billion, but in many cases more money went to wealthy members of tribes with lucrative casinos than to destitute Indians. From 1995 to 2001, the Indian Health Service, the agency responsible for looking after the medical needs of Native Americans, spent an average of $2,100 a year on each of the 2,800 members of the Seminole tribe in Florida. The Seminoles' multiple casinos generated $216 million in profits last year...
INCENTIVE. This is any tax complication that you approve of. The term is invoked in favor of lower tax rates for certain (usually richer) people, for certain types of income (such as capital gains) and in general. It is undeniable that taxes discourage the activity being taxed, and that tax cuts encourage work and thrift and (if they're more narrowly focused) drinking more water on alternate Tuesdays in states beginning with W, and other fine things. But it is also undeniable that if you cut taxes on one activity or group of people, you must raise them on others...