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By CHAD BRAY
and C.E. HOLMAN
Editors
This is the last in a seven-part
series analyzing the stances taken
by the three major candidates in
this year's presidential election.
In this election, the economy is
the one issue Americans are most
concerned about. Economic indicators
offer a mixed message of hope
and despair. As businesses crumble,
unemployment lines grow and
apathy spreads, the people cry to
the candidates, "What can you do
to create jobs and get people back
to work?"
College students worry about not
having a job when they graduate,
so the economy has become the
most critical issue of Campaign
'92.
President George Bush's
"Agenda for American Renewal"
calls for:
Cutting capital gains tax to
increase capital for businesses, creating
enterprise zones to employ
residents in the inner cities and
making the research and development
tax credit permanent.
Strengthening small business by
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of Columbia, had a margin of erro
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>h received 39 percent, Clinton rece
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educing taxes and regulations,
ncreasing the availability of credit,
emoving barriers on competition
ind initiating credit "pilot programs"
to help the areas hardest hit
)y the recession, like New
England.
Supporting civilian research and
ievelopment into new technology
to increase our competitiveness and
aeronautics research, improving our
manufacturing base, expanding
biotechnology research and develDping
an electric car.
Reforming the civil legal system
to eliminate useless lawsuits by
passing product liability reform
legislation, providing incentives for
pre-trial settlements and requiring
the loser of a trial to pay the winner's
legal fees.
Promoting economic security by
providing job training which grants
universal coverage for the unemployed,
alloting a skills voucher up
to $3,000 to pay for training and
tripling the budget for job training.
Reducing the size of government
by proposing $132 billion in cuts
over five years and capping all
mandatory spending except for
Social Security.
Requiring a balanced budget
amendment and an across-theboard
tax cut.
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Making people with incomes
over $200,000 pay more taxes,
penalizing businesses that ship jobs
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r of 3.5 Bush.
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support.
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overseas, reducing executive i
salaries and making foreign corporations
pay taxes on their profits.
Increasing employment by creating
civilian employment corps similar
to Franklin Roosevelt's Work
Progress Administration.
Creating a Rebuild America fund
to pay for the repair of our infrastructure,
establishment of a national
information network, research of
environmental technology and conversion
of defense jobs to help
repair inner cities.
Investing in communities by creating
banks to provide low-interest
loans to local businesses, putting
100,000 new police officers to
work, creating enterprise zones and
easing credit for inner cities.
Encouraging investment by
establishing an investment tax
credit for new plants and equipment,
offering a 50% tax exclusion
for entrepreneurs and creating an
research and development tax credit.
Targeting to cut the federal
deficit in half by 1996 via tax cuts
and reduced spending.
Expanding the Earned Income
Tax Credit, lowering taxes on the
middle class, establishing "workfare,"
pushing for a "family leave"
law and enforcing child support
payments.
Reducing staff of the executive
branch, cutting 100,000 unnecessary
federal jobs, cutting "porkbar\
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ing the entire deficit by:
Eliminating wasteful programs,
followed by a 10 percent acrossthe-board
cut of all federal departments.
Enacting the line-item veto to
eliminate all "porkbarrel" "projects
and "special privileges."
Cutting the defense budget to
support a smaller standing army
and converting defense jobs to
civilian jobs.
Stopping the subsidizing of the
rich by reducing their tax exemptions
for homeownership and
health insurance.
Controlling entitlement costs like
Medicaid and Social Security by
making the rich pay more, increasing
taxes on Social Security and
eliminating cost of living increases
for federal retirees.
Increasing gasoline taxes by 50
cents over five years.
Creating a simpler tax code to
increase the amount of taxes collected.
Creating jobs by freeing up credit,
stimulating investment, eliminating
capital gains tax for small business
and establishing mentor programs.
Encouraging savings and private
investment by creating tax credits
for research and development and
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Bush, while Clinton gets 27 per>t
gets 21 percent, the new poll
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election, 30.7 percent favored
).4 percent supported Perot.
st recent poll, black voters are ^
represented, making up just less
nt of the state's registered voters,
; than 22 percent of the poll's
rhat difference, however, is well
I's margin of error.
Clinton 53 percent to 29 percent
/oters.
so found that the gender gap con;ue
Bush. Men prefer Bush over
rcent to 33 percent; women prefer
lush 44 percent to 40 percent.
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investment and giving tax breaks
for long-term capital gains.
By attacking the legal system,
Bush hopes to curb lawsuits, but
his "loser pay" system may stop
legitimate lawsuits by individuals
against corporations for fear of
paying the fees for "corporate legal
departments."
Bush proposes $132 billion in
cuts but says little to what programs
these cuts will effect. By
refusing to touch Social Security,
he hopes to appeal to a large block
of elderly voters.
Bush's plan has three large holes
in it. First, he fails to outline any
repairs to our infrastructure.
Second, he fails to outline any
method to drastically reduce the
deficit. Third, his plan is comprised
of plans that he has already failed
to enact.
Clinton plans to increase taxes
on the wealthy to help pay for his
plans. The amount of money raised
by this, however, will be far from
what is needed to pay for his programs.
Either further cuts will be
needed, or he will have to raise
taxes on most Americans.
Clinton devotes much of his plan
to rebuilding America. His idea to
create a new WPA should help
employ millions of people and
would be cost-effective. He also
attempts to achieve a symbiotic
relationship between business and
the environment.
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realistic
Clinton and Perot plan to eliminate
"perks, porkbarrels and privileges"
via the line-item veto, but
once they have been vetoed, the
PACs will influence the congressmen
to override the veto.
Perot's plan calls for "shared
sacrifice"; however, it seems middle-class
America will be suffering
the most. A five-year 50-cent gas
tax is a good idea to raise money;
hmupvpr it will mppt orput nnnnnii
larity with the public.
Perot's plan at worst is idealistic,
but is at best the most well-thought
out. His plan, if done correctly,
could stimulate growth and wipe
out the deficit. If done incorrectly,
his plan could really hurt the economy,
but, with Perot's expertise,
his plan could be what America
needs.
Perot is the only candidate to
touch the "political sacred cow,"
Social Security. By attacking Social
Security, he realizes that it is the
largest contributor to the federal
budget. Politically, it is dangerous
because it alienates elderly voters
while appealing to younger voters.
At the core, all three candidates
propose many of the same ideas:
tax credits, enterprise zones,
increased research into new technology,
defense conversion,
reduced spending and government
reduction. Economically, all three
plans should achieve their respective
goals, but whether reality will
permit these plans to work is
another matter.
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