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...something about inheritance taxes, which are now confiscatory." In September, Buchanan called for a rollback of congressional pensions in the wake of Senator Bob Packwood's resignation, only to be echoed by Lamar Alexander at the candidates' forum in Manchester a few weeks later. "We got Arlen Specter talking about a flat tax," Buchanan notes with glee. "Did you hear anything about a flat tax from [him] in all his years in the Senate...
...important than dollars or polls is the emerging sense that Buchanan is setting the pace in this race. He's the one with the resonant message; he's the one with the most passionate following, the true believers, who won't drift off to support Lamar Alexander or Arlen Specter if the weather changes in New Hampshire. And most telling of all, he's the one the other candidates have started to copy. Pat Buchanan is fast becoming the Perot of 1996, the maverick with a message who probably can't win but certainly won't go away...
Listen closely to the other candidates, and it is easy to conclude that Buchanan has, in one sense, already won. When Bob Dole denounces Hollywood sleazemongers, when Phil Gramm's pollster tells him to talk more about "fair trade, not free trade," when Arlen Specter starts to peddle a flat tax and Lamar Alexander blasts congressional pensions, Buchanan gets to lean back in the rented van that drives through the north country of New Hampshire and revel in remaking the Republican Party in his own image. This has become the Buchanan Effect. "All the candidates are responding...
...empt a possible Jewish protest against Yasser Arafat is wholly uncalled for. Was there any staff criticism of black students' interruption of Charles A. Murray '65's Bell Curve lecture, either before or after the fact? Or of the disruptions of antiabortion activists during presidential candidate Arlen Specter's political address last spring...
Kaufman would do well to consider the plain fact that under Specter's tax, millionaires would save $100,000 a year in income tax, while comparable families with incomes of $60,000 would only save $600. Take that for simplicity. And if Mr. Kaufman could live with himself after voting for a president who would institute such a horrifyingly regressive system, then I question whether he has any concern what-soever for anyone less fortunate than himself. --Robin S. Goldstein...