Word: tax-cutting
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...night's speech competently and without magic. Its success was in its looping, reinforcing structure, which allowed him to leave his listeners with a clear memory of his priorities without having to leave any particular phrase tattooed on their brains. The loftiest language came after that rousing tax-cut sale, in 10 minutes of rhetorical flourishes touching on how all the best things in life - from free trade to internationalism to missile defense to a military restructuring - in fiscal 2001 would be free...
...Opponents, of course, say this is a Bush-donor giveaway, and some additional tax credits for alternative energy sources - from solar and wind down to coal and nuclear - won't insulate him from that criticism. In fact, critics may have some reluctant support from Bush himself as he tries to sell a for-the-people tax-cut plan without loading it down with "goodies." Some taxpayer groups estimate the bill would cost at least $21 billion in subsidies and tax breaks to energy companies...
...Extemporaneous sentence construction isn't the President's forte, but he does have a point. Bush's $1.6 trillion tax-cut plan - the core of which is a simplification of the current five-bracket income-tax system of 15 percent, 28 percent, 31 percent, 36 percent and 39.6 to four, lower ones of 10 percent, 15 percent, 25 percent and 33 percent - is not primarily a sweetheart deal for the rich...
...waded into the adoring crowd--his first brilliant p.r. move as a former President--Hillary Clinton was having a typical experience in her new life as a Senator. She was sitting in a sleepy Senate Budget Committee hearing, listening to four economists drone on about George W. Bush's tax-cut plan. And as Bill addressed his well-wishers--"I feel wonderful about it!" he crowed--Hillary finally got her chance to grill the witnesses. "Just give me a yes or no answer," she demanded. "Would you still favor this tax cut" if it ate up money for other vital...
...whether or not the Clinton story fades any time soon, every honeymoon has to end. TIME congressional correspondent Douglas Waller reports from the tax-cut trenches...