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...extricate the nation from the thrall of the oil sheiks. Bush has been touting Jimmy Carter- like conservation pinpricks in recent weeks; the air conditioning in the White House has been turned down. But it would be very un-Bush to call for the 50(cent)-per-gal. gasoline tax that even some conservatives are supporting. In fact, it's far more likely that the next Grand New Policy Proposal will be another tax cut gussied up as tax "reform," perhaps even the abolition of the progressive income tax, replaced by a sales or flat tax. But that sort...
...through hell and high water for the Bolton nomination because of personal friendship (and, one suspects, just to spite the rest of the world) but has flinched from every actual ideological conflict. Bush has gone five years without casting a veto and caved on almost every domestic argument (excepting tax cuts) from Social Security to Medicaid reform—which metamorphosed from a serious reform empowering individuals to just another entitlement program. He hasn’t seen a spending bill or an expansion of Federal powers that he didn’t like. Cravenly preferring submarine judicial nominees like...
According to multitudes of websites on Scientology, the Church was little better than a cult, the religion little more than a tax dodge, its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, little more than an egotistic pathological liar. But Allen and I committed to go see for ourselves...
...there’s no free lunch. Spending billions on these pet projects will require either raising taxes on everyone or cutting spending on other government programs. Although the Bush administration is right to rule out tax increases to finance the reconstruction—increasing taxes would undercut our economic growth at the worst possible time—without spending cuts, the country will simply go further into debt, which amounts to simply a delayed tax increase. And with discretionary spending soaring at eight percent each year under the Bush administration, there’s little reason to believe that...
Maybe fear of Merkels too stringent reforms prompted her rejection at the voting booth. She proposed to raise the value-added tax in 2006, and, more saliently, chose as her prospective finance minister a Heidelberg professor associated with the flat tax, a fixed-rate income tax. According to some commentators, this may have been the innovation which sank Merkels boat. On the other hand, it was apparent throughout the campaign that the changes Merkel represented were of style rather than substance. Even within the CDU, her proposals generated controversy, casting uncertainty on future labor reforms. Further, her liberalism was circumscribed...