Word: rothe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Zuckerman Unbound, Philip Roth...
...taxes that President Reagan is now trying to get through Congress. Such supply-siders as Economist Arthur Laffer and Consultant Jude Wanniski have been putting the gold bug in politicians' ears for the past several years. Republican Congressman Jack Kemp of New York, co-author of the Kemp-Roth tax-cut bill, says that he plans to take up the gold banner as soon as he has completed his drive to lower taxes. Republican Congressman Ronald Paul of Texas and Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina have introduced bills that would restore some version of the gold standard...
...write about the Old World seems even riskier. An émigré issues a warning that is to echo down to the days of Philip Roth: "The scribblers here try to persuade the reader that the shtetl was a paradise full of saints. So comes along someone from the very place and he says 'stuff and nonsense!' They'll excommunicate you here, but don't be alarmed...
...their part, Administration officials had to worry about being forced to fight for some variant of the Kemp-Roth plan-a threeyear, 30% tax cut-which does not enjoy the support that the budget cuts did in the Congress or the country. In fact, all the major players-Rostenkowski, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and White House Counsellor Edwin Meese-hoped to settle the issue by consensus...
...lead. He has had trouble forging a consensus among divided Democrats, who are reluctant to support higher deficits or place their faith in the Reaganites' theory of supply-side economics. Should no compromise be reached, the Democrats could simply allow a straight up-or-down vote on Kemp-Roth, a roll call that the Administration would probably lose. Speaker Tip O'Neill and other liberal Democrats said that putting the Republicans on the spot with Kemp-Roth might be better than talking compromise. But Rostenkowski was well aware of the President's popularity and the possibility that...