Word: simonizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Simon, a first term senator and four-time U.S. congressman, has been criticized by his Democratic rivals for the impracticality of his domestic spending programs and for his reluctance to specify how he would accomplish those plans. In a debate among all the presidential candidates last week, Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) called Simon's economic platform "Reaganomics with...
...Simon said he made a mistake last week by refusing to specify how he planned to accomplish his domestic spending program during an NBC News-sponsored debate among the presidential candidates. "I made a mistake to have ducked the question. I could have started answering it, and then Tom Brokaw could have cut me off," he said...
...Simon made an effort yesterday to enumerate his fiscal plans for making the budget work. He responded to questions from Marvin Kalb, moderator of the program and director of the Kennedy School's Barone Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy, by saying that "a series of very concrete steps" can be taken...
According to Simon, those steps includereducing outlays in the federal budget by $20billion, centralizing American trade policy inhopes of reducing the trade deficit by one-third,and creating at least one-and-a-half million newjobs...
...those measures fail Simon said he wouldraise taxes: "As a last resort, and only a lastresort, I am willing to raise taxes...