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...sense that people even in the well-off tubs recognize that `every tub on its own bottom' had been taken to a dysfunctional extreme," Murphy says. "There's a more cooperative spirit...
Kaus is right to fear the hardening of class lines, but wrong to think the stresses can be relieved without a continuing effort to boost income for the bottom half. "No, we can't tell them they'll be rich," he admits. "Or even comfortably well-off. But we can offer them at least a material minimum and a good shot at climbing up the ladder. And we can offer them respect." And what might they offer back? The Bronx had a cheer for it. In an age when the two- candidate presidential race is no longer something to count...
Under the rule of Jim Crow, blacks were united by the struggle against racial oppression and tended to speak with one voice. Today the expansion of opportunities has allowed African Americans to split along economic lines; the & interests of the relatively well-off middle class are not the same as those of the poor. As a result, skin color alone is no longer a reliable guide to blacks' political attitudes, which range from the antiwar radicalism of Oakland Congressman Ron Dellums to the conservativism of Stanford University economist Thomas Sowell. Yet many blacks cling to an old tradition of rallying...
...that are fairly legitimate, so long as they do not involve switches in actual positions -- which Clinton generally has not made. Even so, he has opened himself to Tsongas' bitter charge of pandering. In Southern TV ads, he assailed Tsongas for proposing a slower increase in the pensions of well-off Social Security recipients -- even though Clinton knows that some such action will be necessary if the federal deficit is ever to be brought under control (in fact, Tsongas' stand was not very different from one Clinton had taken in the past...
Liberals contend that Clinton inherited a regressive tax structure (it presses harder on the poor than on the well-off) and made it more regressive by raising sales taxes while largely leaving alone income and business levies. Clinton replies, correctly, that the state constitution requires a nearly unobtainable 75% vote of the legislature to raise any tax other than the sales levy and, more dubiously, that he sought to change that and failed (critics say he did not make anywhere near the effort required). Characteristically, though, he adds, "What I've tried to do is to promote tax reform...