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...Chris." Young of N.Y.U. says Reeve is mainly responsible for getting Congress to pay attention to the issue. While noting that promises from politicians in an election year are like "an 'I love you' from a horny man," Young is certain that Reeve's high profile will spur both Washington and the public...
...real problems, though, come in figuring how to pay for this largess. To begin with, Dole is siding with supply-side economic theorists--whom he once derided--and their argument that tax cuts spur growth by giving consumers more money to spend and businessmen more to invest, thus creating additional tax revenues to help pay for the tax cuts. Dole is figuring that a quarter of the $551 billion in cuts can be recaptured this way. That's rather modest by the standards of earlier supply-siders, but still very iffy...
...print more money," says TIME's Andrew Keith. That would cover the debt, but reintroduce the specter of inflation. Higher inflation would further jeopardize payments from the International Monetary Fund, which is already holding the latest installment of a $10 billion loan. That money is in limbo to spur Russia to improve its terrible tax-collection system, which has only recovered 63 percent of projected taxes this year. "People find all sorts of ways to avoid paying taxes, in part because the tax agency is understaffed and in part because of the corruption problem," notes Keith. -->