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...experience of the Reagan years contradicts both propositions. In 1981, Congress gave former President Ronald W. Reagan sweeping across-the-board tax cuts, weighted heavily in favor of the rich, with the wealthiest 5 percent of taxpayers getting 35.1 percent of the cuts...
...Takeshita, for example, and backed him in his fight for the leadership in 1987. A rugged sportsman who owns the national-champion baseball team, the Seibu Lions, Yoshiaki flies around the country aboard his jet helicopter to visit his properties and shows up on lists of the world's wealthiest people. He has an estimated net worth of $18.9 billion, compared with Seiji's $1.8 billion...
Loyal man that he is, Bush aided and abetted an administration that has done all it could for the wealthiest in our nation, while doing as little as possible for those less fortunate...
Bush's latest economic issue reveals much about where his sympathies lie. His solution for promoting economic growth is to reduce the capital gains tax, giving a $40 billion tax break to the nations' wealthiest citizens...
...argument led naturally to a clash over tax policy. Bush stoutly defended his proposal to cut the capital-gains tax rate from its current 28% to 15%. Dukakis jumped on this notion as a tax cut "for the wealthiest 1%" of Americans. But a reference by Dukakis to the need to bring interest rates down gave Bush an easy shot at the 21.5% that existed at one point under President Carter...