Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...modus operandi is simple and incredibly effective. The Republicans have constructed their platform against the inefficiency and slovenliness of big government, not against the philosophical goals of liberalism. For instance, on the issue of universal health care, the Republicans argued against bureaucratic overkill, tax burden and fiscal waste, not against the principle of health care for all. Faced with the micro-initiatives and focused policies that Clinton has presented, ones for which the traditional conservative rallying cries do not apply, the Republicans are--literally, at least according to Gingrich's press secretary--silenced. They have no lexicon with which...
...President who was mocked for blurring the distinction between Republican and Democrat and who was ridiculed for realizing a Republican platform--like tax cuts and reduced government--more effectively than the two Republican presidents who preceded him has articulated forcefully and, it seems, effectively, a plan for bringing this nation closer to its liberal ideals. In the President's own words: "We have moved past the sterile debate between those who say government is the enemy and those who say government is the answer. My fellow Americans, we have found a third way. We have the smallest government...
...Lantos smiled gamely. And Gore asked question after question: "Is this a process you patented? What software program do you use? Do you get stock options?" Soon he joined a roomful of scientists to deliver an ode to the job-creation benefits of the federal research-and-development tax credit...
...Gore. After all, the worst case for Clinton means the Oval Office for Gore. The Vice President's poll numbers are up, and his Air Force Two press compartment is full of reporters who have little choice but to report on Gore and his 21st century agenda: solar-energy tax credits. High-tech classrooms. Computerized police departments. And the "Digital Earth initiative," Gore's vision of tomorrow's science museum, a 3-D virtual globe connected via the Internet to all the scientific, political, geographic and cultural data under the sun. "You reporters want scandal," says a senior Gore adviser...
...social solidarity of a public program. Furthermore, they point out that privatization plans have high "transition costs." Because current workers provide benefits for current retirees, if workers divert funds into their own accounts, there would not be enough money for current retirees. Consequently, all privatization plans include hefty tax increases for as many as 75 years...