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...intense. As he talks, he leans forward on the front edge of his chair, elbows on knees, pulling out his buzzing Blackberry every few moments. (His campaign staff is threatening to take it away from him.) He is clearly at ease with some domestic policy issues--dissecting the Bush tax cut, for instance, and citing a string of figures to explain why he wants to retain the breaks for the middle class while eliminating the ones for high-income Americans. On other subjects--health care and education, for example--his positions have not yet congealed, though he promises they will...
...other community, accused citizens—including college-aged young people—would find their names in local newspaper headlines. On campus, however, they get special protection that has no rational or real legal basis. The only distinction in law for students is in the tax code, where they are categorized as nonproductive members of society. Students should not be afforded any special exemption from public scrutiny when they are accused of a crime just because they happen to be smart enough to attend Harvard...
...Hopefully, for those Americans who are counting on some sort of Social Security and Medicare coverage in their old age. His tax cuts and federal budget deficit are a thinly veiled declaration of of war on these benefits for future generations of Americans. If this is something the average American is made aware of, I am sure Bush will lose big. Christian Winther Copenhagen, Denmark...
...America’s sudden plunge from the peaks of the technology boom to the depths of widespread unemployment and war. But Krugman does more than detail how isolated events like the demise of the dot-com era, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and Bush’s tax cuts contributed to America’s current economic malaise. His story, as he explained to his audience on Friday night, is also that of his own disillusionment. Krugman says the election of 2000 thrust him into a crisis of confidence, and that he too has been surprised by the manipulation...
...numbers” in his economic calculations. He noted discrepancies between Bush’s platform promises and the actual proposals the Bush team released while campaigning. Sometimes Candidate Bush’s emphasis was misleading; the future president stumped about unburdening the middle class but reserved his largest tax cuts for the income tax and estate tax, taxes that most affect the wealthiest Americans, Krugman charges. On other occasions, Krugman points out, the economic policies Bush proposed in his campaign simply did not add up. Krugman calls this the problem...