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Assuming Bush substantially cuts the guaranteed benefits paid by the government each year to retirees (he has so far avoided actually saying he would do this), he can reduce the long-term cost of the program. And if the stock market continues its historical rate of return of 7% a...
TIME: in your book, you often use the Russian term: nomenklatura. Who exactly do you mean in the Mexican sense? SALINAS: It's that group of traditionalists who benefited from a closed economy, a one-party system, and from an attitude of alleged opposition to the US. while they were...
TIME: What more can you do to free your brother Raul, who is in jail for murder? SALINAS: I believe that the first accusation (of murder) for which he is so weak. The judge said there is no motive, no direct accusation, that the main witness was bribed by the...
That's why Gore worked so hard during the debate to discredit Bush's tax cut, referring to it 10 times as a plan that would give more to the wealthiest 1% (families that earn $319,000 a year or more) than Bush spends on health care, the prescription-drug...
The squabble over the richest 1% is both symbolic and a bit silly. Obviously, any across-the-board tax cut is going to deliver the biggest dollar savings to the wealthiest Americans - they are after all the ones paying the most tax. Bush's conservatism tells him that no one...