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It is deplorable that we are spending??so much time, effort and money in Iraq fighting a war based on lies. We proclaim how great it is that Americans are bringing freedom to Iraqis, but we are not lifting a finger militarily to stop the killings in Sudan. Our priorities as a nation are completely messed...
...more precise questions reveal the shocking degree to which the alliance is confronting a potentially disastrous change in public opinion. According to a London Observer poll, 53% of Britons would now like to see the U.S. withdraw its bases from their country. Other surveys show that higher defense spending???which the U.S. has asked of NATO allies?is favored by only one-third of Britons, 15% of West Germans and fewer than 10% of Belgians and Dutch. Opposition to the new U.S. missiles in the countries where deployment is planned ranges from 39% in West Germany (29% favored the missiles...
...stress on bread-and-butter issues?inflation, taxes and spending???has blurred party distinctions, sometimes beyond the point of recognition. Democrats are sounding like Republicans, or even more so. Specifically, Democrats have been quick to sense, and act on, the popular support for some traditional Republican arguments. "It's beginning to look like everybody is in the same party," says...
...mountainous 32,000 pages) can put a small-town manufacturer out of business or rejuvenate an industry that was on the brink of bankruptcy. The lobbyist who gets the clause removed, or puts it in, can be worth his salary for 100 lifetimes. The very magnitude of federal spending???about $565 billion this year?reflects the stakes involved as competing groups try to get what they consider their fair share, or more...
Without increasing the federal budget, the Government might sensibly redirect some of its stimulative spending???a bit less for the booming Sunbelt, a bit more for the Northern and Midwestern states, where the urban underclass is concentrated. In 1975, for every tax dollar sent to Washington from the Midwestern states, 760 returned; the Northeastern states got back 860; but the South collected $1.14 and the West $1.20. One reason for the disparity is that many corporations have their headquarters in the Northeast and Midwest, from which they pay taxe based on their total national sales. But there are other factors...