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...health and human services, 21%; on the Labor Department, a massive 56%. According to a new study by the Brookings Institution, the Bush Administration has boosted the number of people working for the Federal Government to a 13-year high. While the President won't countenance any tax increases to ease the deficit, he is still endorsing the biggest new federal entitlement since 1965, a prescription-drug benefit for seniors. The official cost over 10 years is $400 billion, but given rocketing prices for drugs, it could well be far higher. At the same time, he has done nothing substantive...
...merely reversing a decade of sane fiscal management begun by his father and continued by the very odd couple of Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton, but is racking up the next generation's debt in a way unmatched even by his hero Ronald Reagan. After all, Reagan also oversaw tax cuts and a big increase in military spending during a recession, and he bequeathed huge deficits as a result. But at least he restrained domestic spending at the same time. As a Cato Institute report shows, the Gipper's total federal spending grew 6.8% in his first three years, compared...
Experts suggest that utility ratepayers could be on the hook for $50 billion or more to upgrade the electric-power grid. Meanwhile, the current annual Federal Government investment in solar-energy tax credits and research programs is less than $100 million. Solar power kept working when the grid went down. What is wrong with this picture? GLENN HAMER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION Washington...
Fast-Food Tax...
...your report on obesity in children [HEALTH, Aug. 25]: Tobacco and alcoholic beverages are unhealthy and unnecessary. Society has chosen to impose taxes on them in proportion to the problems they cause. Why not a tax on junk food? The resulting income could fund medical research, provide health insurance for children from low-income families and build gyms at elementary schools. Of course, legislators would have to resist lobbyists willing to sweeten campaign funds with some plump gifts, but maybe, for the health of America, it's time to cut the fat. DONNA KEISER Corpus Christi, Texas...