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...patch up the edifice of the Great Society. The second is Gore's portrait of Bush as a faithful servant of the rich and powerful who wants to wire-transfer the surplus into the bank accounts of the upper class, spending "more money on tax cuts for the wealthiest 1%" than he does for new education, health-care and defense programs combined. Are Bush and Gore right about each other? Every campaign serves up a cartoon version of its opponent. But these two caricatures are worth examining, because doing so helps explain how each man would govern, where their records...
...squabble over the richest 1% is both symbolic and a bit silly. Obviously, any across-the-board tax cut is going to deliver the biggest dollar savings to the wealthiest Americans--they are after all the ones paying the most tax. Bush's conservatism tells him that no one should have to hand over more than a third of his paycheck to the Federal Government and that a big tax cut strangles future government spending, stimulates the economy and, yes, trickles down. But he knows he can't sell the tax cut by talking about the fairness of giving high...
...traditionally Democratic issues, health care and the environment, the candidates took further pains to agree on basic principles. Both candidates recognized that 40 million uninsured young people is a sad record for the wealthiest nation on earth; Gore's response featured immediate federal efforts to enable mothers and children to obtain health care, while Bush argued that not all the uninsured desire insurance and proposed medical savings accounts to provide incentives...
...solutions with Third World leaders. It doesn't matter that hundreds of students work with, research for and attend workshops given by the center. It doesn't really matter if organizations like this do any good for us in the first place. They exist here precisely because, in the wealthiest university in the wealthiest country in the world, we don't need them...
...squabble over the richest 1% is both symbolic and a bit silly. Obviously, any across-the-board tax cut is going to deliver the biggest dollar savings to the wealthiest Americans - they are after all the ones paying the most tax. Bush's conservatism tells him that no one should have to hand over more than a third of his paycheck to the Federal Government and that a big tax cut strangles future government spending, stimulates the economy and, yes, trickles down. But he knows he can't sell the tax cut by talking about the fairness of giving high...