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Make no mistake: Perot, 61, just might (gulp!) be the next President of the U.S. -- a leader unfettered by any party, untested in any office, unclear in his policies and unshakable in the faith that he is right and the entire bipartisan governing establishment is wrong. No independent candidate in 80 years has attracted anything like this kind of support -- and remember, Perot has just barely begun to dip into his personal bank account to spend, as he promises, "whatever it takes to run a proper campaign...
Some of these ideas are being picked up on Capitol Hill. Democratic Senator David Boren of Oklahoma last March proposed a bill to create a modern-day version of the WPA. In the wake of the Los Angeles riots, bipartisan momentum seems to be building behind Housing Secretary Jack Kemp's "empowerment" approach. By offering tax breaks to entrepreneurs investing in 50 inner-city "enterprise zones," Kemp hopes to generate new jobs and wean welfare recipients off the dole. That trickle-down solution seems problematic: it will take more than fiscal lures to bring major investment into rubble-strewn areas...
...efforts and add a new twist: collection insurance. In cases in which the absent father could not be tracked down or did not have the money to pay up, the government would pay the mother a fixed amount per child each year. This approach is the basis for a bipartisan plan, announced in the House last week by Democrat Thomas Downey and Republican Henry Hyde, that would guarantee a single mother a minimum of $2,000 a year and would collect payments from the father through the Internal Revenue Service...
...when their reported total income was $452,803, the Bushes paid only 23% of their earnings in federal taxes because of the cap on Social Security contributions and various investment deductions. Even as he has worked to cut the capital-gains tax on investment income, Bush has opposed bipartisan efforts to cut the Social Security tax, declaring that such a move would require "increased taxes around the corner" -- meaning increased income taxes on wealthy people like himself...
...attempt to deflect attention from the House imbroglio, Foley has called for a review of Executive Branch perks and has created a bipartisan task force to recommend an overhaul of congressional operations. He brushed off Bryant's demand for his retirement by vowing to run for another term as Speaker. If he had shown the same zeal in dealing with Jack Russ, his re- election would not be in doubt...