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...Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and Attorney-General Philip Ruddock, had no ministerial experience. But the conservatives have put their stamp on the country, improved their party organization and employed the privileges of office to keep themselves in power. Howard became P.M. with a huge parliamentary majority; implementing his convictions - tax and industrial-relations reform, tougher gun laws and cultural realignment - cost him some of his electoral buffer at the 1998 poll. Three years later, his uncompromising border protection stand saw him increase his margin...
With an election expected later this year, the outline of Howard's campaign pitch just got clearer: continued economic growth, tax cuts all round, and generous payments to voters with children (or those planning to have them) and the aged. Howard has played this game before. Three years ago, he was toast, his government seen as "mean" and "tricky." Sure, 9/11 and the Tampa issue allowed Howard to display his superior national security credentials compared with Labor aspirant Kim Beazley. But a Budget-time spending bonanza six months before the poll helped Howard and his government to get back...
...Americans could pick up the mantle of empire laid down by European powers. The dream of the neo-imperialists was idealistic; they imagined that after U.S. soldiers had secured Iraq, the invisible infrastructure of the modern state-such as independent judges, honest civil servants and an efficient tax collection-would gradually take shape under a benign American tutelage until, one day, a beacon of democracy in the Middle East...
Andrew Sullivan's proposal for an added $1-a-gallon gas tax to pay for the war in Iraq was insightful and timely [April 19]. A majority of Americans initially backed the war, and it is appalling to watch that support vanish as people are asked to do more than place flags on their SUVs. Keeping the gas tax at its current level only serves to enrich OPEC nations at the expense of the U.S. The heads of Ford and General Motors have already voiced support for an increased gasoline tax. It's time for the rest of America...
...Tax gas? Or simply a way to tax the poor some more? While Sullivan's proposal sounds admirable because it aims to discourage Americans from buying gas-guzzling SUVs and would help pay for the war, it is nothing more than another effort to shift the tax burden to the poor and middle class. RALPH LANNI Princeton...