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...other government benefits, such as food stamps. Over the last twenty years, we tried to wean you off these by actively reducing benefit levels and passively letting inflation bite into their value. But more and more of you kept joining the welfare rolls, so we've decided to cap benefit levels once and for all with our new block grants. And we know that the states will probably begin their anxiously awaited "race to the bottom" (trying to outdo each other in cutting services for the poor), so expect your public assistance to shrivel...
...billion G.O.P. tax cut for the wealthy. The acrimony between the two parties grew more bitter still when the American Medical Association announced it was endorsing the G.O.P. plan. The apparent quid pro quo: Republicans agreed to spare doctors from fee reductions, exempt them from certain antitrust restrictions and cap large malpractice awards...
...YOUR ARTICLE ON PROPOSED REFORMS in the welfare system [CONGRESS, Sept. 25] you referred to me and my "family cap" amendment to the Welfare Reform Bill. I would like to clarify what this amendment does and does not do. Simply put, my amendment gives states the option of imposing a "family cap" on benefits for children born into welfare families or to teenage mothers. My amendment does not, as some have implied, endorse additional payments to welfare families or adolescent mothers, nor does it impose another federal mandate on states. It only gives states the option of determining who deserves...
...mothers" while ignoring "men as fathers" further punishes women. Since they are the most easily identified parent and often the more committed, it leaves men with little incentive to acknowledge paternity or pay their fair share and may even push them farther from their children. Why don't we cap the number of children a man can have? KATHERINE WOODS-ELIOT Portland, Oregon Via E-mail...
...went really overboard, but it was for the idea. It's a nice cap on the year and a good way to start the new one. It accentuates the meaning of the holiday," Rimsky said. "As well as being a good thing to do for other people, it's a good thing to do for ourselves. It makes me feel better about myself and the meaning of the holiday...