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Huckabee's radical tax plan--replacing the income and payroll tax with a national sales tax--is a right-wing cause. Giuliani's support for legal abortion repels some independents while attracting others--and to make up for it with conservatives, he has toed the line on just about everything else. Romney and Fred Thompson have been too busy trying to prove their movement-conservative creds to pay attention to independents...
...REPUBLICAN EX-NAVAL officer known for his tax cuts could easily have become a cookie-cutter partisan. Former Wisconsin Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus just didn't think that way. So in 1982 the charismatic onetime college chancellor signed the nation's first gay-rights law prohibiting discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations. The matter-of-fact Governor insisted that not intruding on private lives was a distinctly Republican virtue. "There is nothing more private or intimate than who you live with and who you love," he said. Dreyfus...
...entered the campaign a year ago as the apparent front runner, an awkward role for a free-ranging, fence-jumping, kick-the-corral maverick. McCain never got the hang of it, breaking with his party's mainstream on tax cuts, immigration, harsh interrogation of terrorist suspects - the list goes on. By July his bank account and his poll numbers were in a race to zero, which turned out to be a blessing...
...conference at the Elysée palace. As part of his plan for rationalizing the state's sprawling audiovisual empire, the President suggested "we consider the total suppression of advertising on public channels", and that income lost from the ad ban be compensated in part by "an infinitesimal sales tax on new communication methods, like internet access and mobile telephony." Freeing state television stations from ratings-sensitive advertising, Sarkozy said, would allow public TV to quit trying to match the popular but mind-numbing game shows and reality television that now dominate the schedules of private broadcasters for what Sarkozy...
...outperformed its rival for more than a decade. In response to the ballooning size of university coffers, some legislators have sought to require that educational institutions spend at least 5 percent of their endowment annually. “The donations to those endowments and the endowments themselves are all tax-exempt,†said Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), who has championed the 5 percent mandate, in a statement Monday. “American taxpayers are subsidizing that tax-exemption, and they deserve public benefit in return.†Yale previously targeted an endowment payout rate...