Word: tax-cutting
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...Kasich got the blueprint past queasy moderate Republicans in fine candidate style: with a little coalition-building. The House's tax-cut standard bearers -- Kasich, Gingrich, Dick Armey, et al -- promised that the plan's harshest characteristics would surely be softened in negotiations with the Senate anyway, so why not show a little short-term solidarity...
...exactly like your mother. But the message was very down-home: Start saving for a rainy economy. Greenspan urged Congress, in crafting the 1999 budget, to keep the tax-cut goodies out -- and sock the extra money away until the impact of the Asian crisis on U.S. prosperity can be fully appreciated...
WASHINGTON: If there's one thing a Congressman hates, it's looking like a tool of big business ? especially when it's a business as unpopular as Big Tobacco. Although a provision was quietly slipped into last month's tax-cut legislation allowing tobacco companies to use the cost of a gradual 15-cent per pack increase ? some $50 billion ? as a credit towards the proposed $368.5 billion national settlement, Senators began to disown the plan once it was made public. Wednesday, the Senate overwhelmingly voted to squash it altogether. "This is the kind of thing that no Congressman wants...
...claim that the balanced-budget and tax-cut law "gives away something to just about everyone" [NATION, Aug. 11], but it's not true. The clear winners are the upper middle class and the rich. The tax benefits flow disproportionately to the wealthiest Americans. And I was horrified to read Daniel Kadlec's commentary arguing that the "victims" of this legislation are the "upper-income wage slaves." He describes an imaginary couple struggling to make ends meet on their $160,000-a-year income in their cramped $475,000 four-bedroom house. I don't know if Kadlec is serious...
...three said they were sorry for failing to nip the revolt in the bud the moment they caught wind of it. The apologies were accepted by a magnanimous Gingrich, who said the incident is officially over and that the party should now press ahead together to complete the tax-cut and balanced budget bills. But given the amount of distrust that's certain to linger within the party, working together may be easier said than done...