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Although Joshua Kaufman has clearly been sold on the "simplicity" of Senator Arlen Specter's postcard plan for income tax in America, his column ("Politics, Not Props," Sept. 25, 1995) reflects his failure to see through the gloss of Specter's Flat Tax Plan brochure (yes, it was glossy, too, just like all the others) and analyze Specter's spiffy graph and crafty doublespeak...
...Specter's graph is cunningly misleading for the reasons we learned in elementary school: The same size bars represent grossly different amounts of money. The bar representing any five percent granted by the government to the $25,000 income bracket represents $1,250; the same size bar on the other end of the graph--that 5 percent granted to the $1 million income bracket--represents a whopping...
...ideological battle between Specter and Buchanan which will decide the future of the Republican Party. By defining the boundaries, these two extremists will determine where the party platform and candidate will stand. Though his victory is surely not a given. Arlen Specter serves as a sensible force who, as president, would be able to tackle our country's most pressing matters in an intelligent manner, should we call upon...
...this summer while trying to catch up with the G.O.P. front runners, Wilson repeated that "only three of us can expect to raise the table stakes for the whole primary campaign." This meant that only he, Dole and Phil Gramm--and not Pat Buchanan, Richard Lugar, Lamar Alexander, Arlen Specter or Alan Keyes--could hope to raise the estimated $20 million needed for the nomination marathon. Yet his organization's own estimates put Wilson's total last week just above $6 million, in contrast to $17 million for Dole and more than $12 million for Gramm. TIME has learned...
...running against Clinton in their primaries. Powell, they reason, might give the party a better chance of retaining the White House. The White House reacted by scoffing at some Powell comments. Press secretary Mike McCurry derided Powell's left-leaning Republicanism by asserting, "I don't recall Senator Arlen Specter doing that well...