Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...issues that have drawn most of the spotlight have been proposals to cut income taxes and extending health care reform...
...measure has been heavily endorsed by the state's Republican leadership and attacked by the legislative Democrats. Republicans say the cut is just a fulfillment of the legislature's promise, while Democrats said the lost revenue from the cut would make the state unable to face pressing needs or an economic downturn...
...statewide poll conducted last week by the Boston Herald and Boston's WCVB-TV showed the question leads by a 47 to 37 percentage point margin. However, opposition to the cut seems to be gaining momentum, as the approval rating for the cut has shrunk dramatically since the summer...
...other heavily contested issue on the ballot is Question Five. The proposal would create a new patient's bill of rights to give residents protection from insurance company abuses. It tries to cut the amount insurance companies spend on advertising and lobbying. It would also work towards establishing universal health care coverage, although it does not mandate such a system be established...
...choice was not always so clear-cut. Gore, it was noted in the summer, had historically large pockets of support on Wall Street. He represented a happy continuation of the policies that had brought the economy and the markets astounding success over the past eight years. But when Gore went populist, and Bush started to look acceptably reliable, the naturally Republican instincts of Street types took over. Price controls for pharmaceuticals? Big Bad HMOs? Rats in the barn? As a New Democrat Gore could be counted on to be sensible about these things; as an angry populist...