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...resume: state health secretary, executive director of the national commission on Medicare, president of the University of Louisiana system and a top health-policy adviser to the Bush Administration--all before the age of 30. He has wooed Louisiana's relatively conservative voters with his advocacy of tax cuts for job creation and his opposition to gun control and abortion...
Tobacconists are fuming over his new cigarette taxes, due to rise 40% by January. Medical workers are wary of his plans to overhaul France's health-care system. Actors and stagehands, outraged by his tightening of their unemployment benefits, shut down the summer culture season. Strikes by teachers and transport employees, incensed over his plans to reform pensions, brought the country to halt in May and June. And leading members of his own party are slamming his economic and social policies for being everything from too liberal to insufficiently ambitious. But since this is France, which has so often proved...
...hoping unemployment drops by the next national elections in 2007, so that any increase in pension payments is offset by a fall in unemployment benefits. The government has made some genuinely popular moves beyond putting more police on the streets. In September, it passed a 3% cut in income tax, which only about half of French households earn enough to pay. But joy was muted - the announcement was swiftly followed by rises in local taxes and taxes on diesel fuel and cigarettes. "People feel it's just a game: what the government gives with one hand, it takes with...
...Begala-Carville battle plan did not work, precisely because voters recognized then, as they recognize now, that Bush’s “compassionate conservatism” is not radical. Certainly, tax cuts and limited privatization of Social Security are conservative practices, in that they reflect classical liberal values such as limited government and the primacy of individual decision-makers within the framework...
...these measures are also, as Bush emphasizes, compassionate. Tax cuts have been designed to give working families more disposable income, Social Security would be privatized with the welfare of future retirees in mind and Bush’s philosophy of a limited government role in the oversight of social welfare respects the autonomy of individuals. Concern for the welfare of others and respect for individual liberties are comfortably mainstream values in American society. Such is the extent of Bush’s radicalism...