Word: tax-cutting
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...Dole could have run as the hardheaded but scarcely harsh politician his 35-year congressional career proved him to be. He could probably have won the votes of more women by sticking to his call for "tolerance" in the G.O.P.'s abortion plank. He could have avoided the tax-cut scheme that colored him as just another pandering pol, even though he seemed genuinely to have been converted to supply-side theory by the time 15% became his battle cry in August. He could have built on his critical 1983 participation in the commission that saved Social Security by speaking...
...President had endorsed a tax cut for middle-American families as a means of helping them pay for college, and he did not want to appear to be against the general principle of relieving the tax burden Americans face. Indeed, in 1996, within the context of his balanced-budget proposal, the President did endorse a wide array of tax cuts designed to help families pay for education, child care and home ownership--cuts that were fully paid for within the President's budget plan. In contrast, most Americans felt that the more ambitious, across-the-board tax-cut proposals Senator...
...places where Bill Clinton can't go." For the President to utter the words "middle-class tax cut" would amount to what Dole communications director John Buckley calls "revisiting the scene of the crime...He can chase us down several alleys. He cannot chase us down the tax-cut alley...
...more astonishing that Dole rose to the podium on Thursday night, grabbed the tax-cut crowd by the lapels and told them they were only half right. There was still plenty wrong with America that a tax cut could not heal. It was as though he stared down his new partners, said I'll take your hope-growth-and-opportunity and stick it in my knapsack, but I'm here to deliver a message from the ages. "All things do not flow from wealth or poverty," he said. "All things flow from doing what is right...
...have had a leadership that has been unwilling to risk the truth, to speak without calculation, to sacrifice itself." And while he may have preached a sermon on Thursday, his aides had already left the church; they're busy scheduling a Dole-Kemp bandwagon that will take the tax-cut promise to every battleground state in the next three weeks, backed by a 20-state advertising blitz. Some supporters aren't even bothering with DOLE-KEMP '96 buttons. Theirs read...