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...Anderson, who helped craft Ronald Reagan's tax cuts in 1981, told TIME last week that Bush's plan "is going to be significantly different from what the Republicans are doing now." Of course, the Texas Governor wants to cut taxes for the middle and upper classes, but sources tell TIME his plan will feature a series of proposals aimed at lowering the tax burden on families earning between $12,500 and $30,000 a year. When poor families begin to make more money, they gradually lose benefits like housing subsidies and the Earned Income Tax Credit, which is designed...
...politics of human rights that supersedes the politics of established frontiers and, in some cases, laws. Substitute private property for frontiers and the Second Amendment for laws, and one begins to see that the politics of humanitarianism requires a trade-off involving the essential underpinnings of American life. To tell Americans what they can or cannot own and do in their homes is always a tricky business. As for the Second Amendment, it may pose an inconvenience for gun-control advocates, but no more an inconvenience than the First Amendment offers those who blame violence on movies and television...
Maybe the whole problem is the information everybody else isn't supposed to know. Maybe that's why erratic international media coverage of the conflict cannot or does not tell you the story my parents told...
...regular basis? How do we sort out our opinions? Now, in Sri Lanka, the air seethes with rumors of hidden horrors--torture, rape, looting, murder. Thankfully, in our family, the worst thing that has happened is the burning of my aunt's house 15 years ago. I could tell you stories much worse and much bloodier than that. But it's not my job to tell...
Republicans in the House and Senate passed their $792 billion tax cut Thursday night, so we know they want it -? or at least want to be able to tell everyone they do. We know Bill Clinton is dead-set against it -? "I will have no choice but to veto it immediately" ?- and the Democrats, so far, are sticking by their fearless leader. But how about the voters? Polls show that Americans overwhelmingly favor lower taxes -? who wouldn?t? - until they?re reminded that there?s only so much money to go around. Put a big tax cut against saving Medicare...