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...hike might cost the G.O.P. ten of its 176 seats in the House; 19 of the 45 Republican Senators signed a letter begging Bush in effect to "say it ain't so, Mr. President." The White House and its allies almost did. After a meeting with Bush, Alan Simpson of Wyoming, the assistant Senate Republican leader, insisted that the President was not talking about income taxes, for heaven's sake. Maybe excise taxes, or energy taxes, or a kind of national sales tax, or something or other, but never income taxes. Bush's chief of staff, John Sununu, speaking...
Though many landowners are enthusiastic about the scheme, the American Civil Liberties Union is concerned that it could undermine the Bill of Rights. A.C.L.U. lawyer William Simpson is worried about citizens' abandoning their constitutional protections in their haste to join the war on drugs. Says Simpson: "What are politicians going to tell people when the Constitution is gone and we still have a drug problem...
...much as 6% of the U.S. work force. Some immigration experts, most notably Julian Simon, a professor of business at the University of Maryland, predict that as the baby boomers age and the birthrate falls, the labor market will tighten and "employers will cry out for workers." The Kennedy-Simpson bill being considered by the House sets an annual "flexible" cap of about 630,000 legal immigrants per year, far less than the U.S. economy could absorb. Moreover, several new books refute the contention that immigrants displace U.S. workers or burden the welfare system. According to recent studies, immigrants...
Marketing Services Director: Cleary S. Simpson...
...didn't even know who these Simpson creatureswere," he said. "I don't watch...