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...marriage penalty," as it is called, has been a favorite target of Republican ire for years. The quirk of the tax system causing some non-married couples to pay less in taxes than they would if they were married has attracted the attention of social conservatives and tax-cutters alike, providing in some cases an economic disincentive to marriage. Even the triangulating President Clinton has taken up the standard and called for an end to the marriage penalty. Unfortunately, the bill to end the marriage penalty that passed the House of Representatives Feb. 10 served more as a platform...
...course, ending the marriage penalty doesn't require a cut in taxes. At least one revenue-neutral alternative has been proposed in which married people would pay a little less and single people would pay a little more, causing the gap to disappear. Unsurprisingly, however, Congress preferred to use the opportunity for a tax cut, and rather than be left portrayed as anti-marriage, the Democrats decided to join in to the tune of $89 billion over 10 years. The Democratic alternative, rejected before the GOP bill's passage, would have called for increases in the standard deduction...
...Less than three minutes later, with momentum on Dartmouth's side, Haggard, last week's ECAC Player of the Week, lit the lamp for the deciding goal...
...Hampshire has always been useful less for picking winners--ask almost-Presidents Buchanan, Tsongas and Hart--than for chastening losers, stripping them bare, exposing the phonies, humbling the pundits, rewarding the pirates and generally leaving the impression that the voters might actually have some role to play in deciding who gets to be President. Even so, no one was prepared for what happened to American politics last week...
...instead Bush went snowmobiling. And sledding. And bowling. On the last day before the vote, his schedule broke down completely. "If your candidate's principal perception problem is that he lacks gravitas," complained a Bush donor, "why be seen playing with children?" It was less a campaign than a parade, and one that he didn't always seem to be enjoying much. Aides whispered that he was homesick. He hadn't engaged with the voters, hadn't settled into the lumpy sofas in their living rooms with a cup of watery coffee or stood in their meeting halls patiently listening...