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...Federal Government and that a big tax cut strangles future government spending, stimulates the economy and, yes, trickles down. But he knows he can't sell the tax cut by talking about the fairness of giving high-earners a break. That's why Bush so often appears on the stump with what his campaign calls "tax families," middle-class people who he says would do better under his plan than under Gore's. There are plenty of such people, but Gore's team has made a point of highlighting two other "tax families" they think best illustrate who really makes...
After getting stuck in Boston traffic, Robinson arrived 15 minutes late and promptly delivered a 15-minute stump speech detailing his stance on nearly every major issue...
...Federal Government and that a big tax cut strangles future government spending, stimulates the economy and, yes, trickles down. But he knows he can't sell the tax cut by talking about the fairness of giving high-earners a break. That's why Bush so often appears on the stump with what his campaign calls "tax families," middle-class people who he says would do better under his plan than under Gore's. There are plenty of such people, but Gore's team has made a point of highlighting two other "tax families" they think best illustrate who really makes...
...This was supposed to be the close-to-the-vest debate, the stiff, podium-chained debate in which candidates stuck close to their stump speeches and took no chances with attacks. It wasn't exactly that -- in fact, it wasn't long before a passive Jim Lehrer let all those meticulously negotiated time constraints go right out the window...
After 90 minutes of presidential debate that ranged across nearly every imaginable issue, called at least a dozen Real Americans by their first names, veered persistently into stump-speech boilerplate, and strained and strained at being interesting political television but never quite got there, Al Gore and George W. Bush are more deadlocked than ever...