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Boskin helped inspire Bush's idea of a "flexibile freeze" in government spending to wipe out budget deficits now running at $155 billion a year. An authority on the Social Security system, Boskin argued in a recent book titled "Too Many Promises" that the program should be overhauled to separate its welfare and pension functions...
These two bites -- $40 billion or so from a tax hike and perhaps an additional $10 billion or $20 billion from lower interest rates -- would not wipe out the deficit. But we don't need to wipe out the deficit. At least not by raising taxes. And certainly not by legislating a balanced-budget amendment. And especially not by cutting investment in our future...
...eagerly snapping up early copies of Fit to Print, Rosenthal, who has received a six-figure advance to write his memoirs, says he has not read it: "From what I can tell, it's like walking into a mess in the street. You step in it; you try to wipe it from your foot." Ironically, some of the best material in the book comes from Rosenthal, who at first refused to talk to Goulden but ultimately spent 20 hours with the author. "If you call Abe Rosenthal anything," he told a mystified Goulden as their first meeting drew...
Speaking at Harvard Law School's Ames Courtroom, Dershowitz said he opposed using drugs and that he would wipe them out if he could. But he added, "I just don't believe there's any way to interdict them...
Allow livestock farmers to deduct expenses of producing an animal even before it became productive; this would wipe out what has become known as the "heifer...