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...Republicans are in the mess they're in because they've followed Reagan's advice, not because they've ignored it. Today's budget deficits are the legacy of Reagan's tax-cut mania. Saddam Hussein's military might began growing with help from the Reagan Administration. Where would we be now if we had continued President Jimmy Carter's policies of investing in renewable energy rather than Reagan's policies of investing in the military? Journalists have a responsibility to base their work on realities, not myths. Cam Bauer, HAYWARD, CALIF...
...With three months until election day, the tax issue is shaping up to be a significant battleground. To pay for his programs, Angelides has previously said he'll raise around $5 billion in new taxes on the wealthy or big corporations. The Governor's campaign contends that the total tax bill for the Angelides agenda will be more than three times that and called his tax-cut plan a disguise. Just as Angelides was finishing his speech, Schwarzenegger held a press event with tax-cut advocates, reiterating his pledge not to raise taxes and touting his tax-relief record...
Speakers at the retreat in late July, which drew 165 families, included Matt Daniels of the Alliance for Marriage, and an immigration panel featured tax-cut leader Grover Norquist and Hugh Hewitt, a conservative radio host and blogger. Reflecting Legacy's aim for social impact, Gary Haugen of International Justice Mission talked about heading the U.N. genocide investigation in Rwanda. Audience members rose to describe a trip they had taken there. The weekend ended in the Cheyenne Lodge with a family worship service led by Mark Brewer of California's Bel Air Presbyterian Church. He was Ronald Reagan's last...
...pleased with himself. Months of huddling with officials in preparing his 11th Budget had given Costello a pallid face. He looked in need of a decent night's sleep. His head was full of new tax scales, growth projections and spending measures. But ignore the facial puffiness and creases, for his lively eyes told the real story. Here was a happy fellow. The tax-cut man cometh...
...Brokeback Mountain than make it-for targeted tax increases to discourage things like, well, an addiction to oil. But what are we to make of the perennial conservative call for the elimination of the estate tax, which would cost $750 billion over 10 years? Republicans have done a clever bit of marketing here by calling it the death tax. Perhaps Democrats should nickname estate-tax repeal the Paris Hilton Empowerment Project. Whatever you call it, it is an obscenity to ask nothing of heiresses while helicopter pilots are giving everything. The tax-cut obsession certainly makes it hard...