Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign called "Stop the Raid." It's their latest big idea to finally win a budget fight with Bill Clinton: Accuse Clinton and the Democrats, over and over, of planning to raid the pension system's trust funds to pay for Big Government spending programs. With that $792 billion tax cut languishing on a far-back burner, "Stop the Raid" is the GOP's last bid for America's hearts and minds in 2000 before George W. Bush takes over as message man in the spring. The problem is, we have seen the raiders, and it is the Republicans...
...Clinton and the Democrats will have a field day with." Such as budgeting the 2000 census - on the calendar since 1789 - as an "emergency." Such as that plan to create a phantom "13th month" to hide more spending-cap spillover. Such as messing with the $2,000 earned income tax credits that go to the working poor, or asking the states to hand back billions in unused welfare money...
...grant the Justice Department's request for $20 million for expert witnesses and government lawyers in order to make the lawsuit viable. And the Justice Department itself must permit evidence gathered in a five year long criminal investigation of cigarette manufacturers to be used in the civil lawsuit so tax payer dollars aren't unnecessarily wasted in a duplication of efforts...
...variety of possible candidates makes it difficult for the party to establish a coherent platform. There is even uncertainty in the party on budget policy and paying down the national debt, previously one of the party's most central platforms. Buchanan, for one, wants a tax cut that exceeds the already-irresponsible Republican proposal vetoed by President Clinton last week...
...compromise budget bill currently before Congress--which promises less tax cuts than a sweeping Republican measure vetoed recently by President Clinton--still would slash funding for research work in both the sciences and the humanities...