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Republican Senator William Roth, coauthor of what he prefers to call the Roth-Kemp tax act, joked that he had invited Stockman to a Thanksgiving dinner at which the menu would include "Trojan horse pâté, Château Hemlock '81, trickle-down consommé and foot-in-mouth filet." After dinner, said Roth, Stockman would be "offered a blindfold and a cigarette." Actually, Roth was furious at Stockman's remarks about supply-side economics, saying, "I'm outraged...
...matter. The original argument was that the top bracket was too high, and that's having the most devastating effect on the economy. [However] to make this palatable as a political matter, you had to bring down all the brackets. But, I mean, Kemp-Roth was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate. .. It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle-down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle-down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory...
Here the subject is horses, which are metaphors of another color. In the Atlantic Monthly article, Mr. Stockman called the Reagan tax package a "Trojan horse" in order to indicate that what looked on the surface like a fascinating gift to the people in fact contained the instruments of their destruction. But clearly that was not what Mr. Stockman meant, since the tax package-if it was a deception-was designed to destroy only some of the people, i.e., the poor. For the rich the gift would be genuine. If, by using Troy, Mr. Stockman wished to convey the idea...
Some of these images are as memorable as Haigspeak. At one point Mr. Stockman mentions the greedy "hogs" who, at another point, were "strung out on a limb." The Trojan horse metaphor is itself a bit mixed...
...Trojan War in Greek Vase Painting--Barbara Martin; Museum of Fine Arts, noon...