Word: roth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Survival of a Free Congress, and the Conservative Caucus. Christian Voice has compiled a list, widely circulated by Moral Majority and Roundtable as well, of how Senators and Congressmen voted in 1979 on 14 key moral issues. It praises votes not only for school prayer but for the Kemp-Roth bill to cut income tax rates 30%; condemns votes favoring not only abortion but the Equal Rights Amendment. The rightists claim to find religious grounds for all these stands. Says Zone: "We can talk about a balanced budget as a moral issue. The Bible says you should not live...
...fired the deputy and soon made a name for himself by packing two pistols on drug busts. O'Neal was elected Lieutenant Governor in Governor Jim Thompson's 1976 landslide. A Reagan Republican, O'Neal opposes the ERA, abortion and SALT II and favors the Kemp-Roth proposal to cut federal income tax rates by 30% over three years...
...poll showed that a majority of the club's membership favors draft registration, the Equal Rights Amendment, increased military spending and the Kemp-Roth tax-cut plan. Most of the membership is against a constitutional amendment to ban aboritons, government subsidies for abortions for the poor, a constitutional amendment to require a balanced federal budget, and court-ordered busing to achieve racial integration in public schools...
...going to change the entitlement programs and if you want more military expenditures, there is no way on earth that you can achieve savings anywhere near the magnitude [that Reagan proposes] and if you can't achieve those savings, then of course you can't afford Kemp-Roth...
...least the House, unless Reagan wins by an unlikely landslide. Even some top Republicans have misgivings about Reagan's proposals. Says New York Representative Barber Conable, ranking Republican on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee: "I regret that Reagan has hewn to the line on Kemp-Roth. I think that Congress would use Reagan's plan as a starting point, and do its own things, as it always does." Thus Reagan's program is almost certain to be changed if he makes it to the White House. The prospect of altering the design does...