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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 26, 1992
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN'92
Viewpoints of the Candidates
THE ISSUES
ECONOMY & TAXES
BUCHANAN
BUSH
Supports providing incentives for employers and individuals to purchase insurance; favors halting new Medicare regulations; would issue vouchers to families to help pay the costs of long-term care of the elderly.
EDUCATION
Supports cutting in half the capital gains tax for individuals earning more than $50,000 a year; cutting income tax for the lower and middle classes; phasing out foreign aid and freezing federal spending; favors "providing investment tax credits for business and manufacturing to create jobs and renew our industrial base."
Favors a system of tax credits and deductions for middle-income families and the poor to help pay health insurance costs. Families below the poverty line would receive up to $3,750 either as voucher or as credit subtracted from their tax bill. Those earning up to $70,000 annually could deduct up to $3,750 from their taxable income for health insurance or unreimbursed medical bills.
BROWN
Supports the death penalty; opposes all gun-control legislation; supports use of military for interdiction of drug shipments into the United States.
Supports slashing capital gains tax to 15.4 percent, providing a $5,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers; increasing personal tax exemptions by $500 for each dependent child for every family; eliminating 246 federal programs to cut federal spending; allowing penalty-free withdrawals from individual retirement accounts to pay for medical and educational expenses.
Favors a totally government-financed system similar to Canada's in which private doctors, hospitals and other care givers are paid through higher federal and state taxes. "We should have a single-payer, universal health care, emphasizing wellness and prevention and including the choice of different healing arts whether it's acupuncture or chiropractic."
Favors a voucher system that allows parents to send their children to the schools of their choice; favors making teachers and their curriculums accountable to local education officials; believes that European and American history and English and American literature should be pillars of the curriculums of all schools.
Supports the death penalty and limiting of appeals for Death Row inmates; opposes federal gun regulation; supports increasing federal prosecutors and prison capacity. Administration's crime bill suggests spending 64 percent of $12.7 billion on law enforcement and 36 percent on education and treatment.
Supports a 13-percent flat tax on personal income and a value-added tax on business, allowing deductions only for rent, mortgage payments and charitable contributions; providing tax credits for research and development; cutting foreign aid; initiating federally funded job programs.
CLINTON
Supports voucher-like system of choice in educational system for all families; favors voluntary standardized national exams; favors using public money to cover tuition at private schools to promote equity, supports awarding some scholarships on the basis of race.
**Opposes** capital punishment, advocates mandatory prison terms for use of a gun in a crime, for repeat felons, for heroin pushers, and crimes against the elderly and handicapped, proposes attacking crime by addressing the causes of poverty. "You're never going to stop crime unless there is an adequate opportunity for jobs and income for every person."
Favors a public/pribrive insurance plan for everyone in the United States, commonly called "play or pay," in which employers and employees purchase private insurance or opt to buy into a public program by which the poor and unemployed would be covered; supports enacting the Reproductive Health Equity Act to increase the health care resources available to women.
Supports financing a Head Start program for all children; supports minimum national standards for all primary and secondary schools; supports restoring work-study programs; favors reducing dependence on federal student loan programs by lowering tuition at public universities and increasing scholarship aid; wants to "put a computer in front of every child."
Supports cutting middle-class taxes by 10 percent and increasing the taxes of those earning more than $200,000; replacing the current $2,150 dependent’s tax exemption with up to an $800 tax credit for each child; accelerating current highway spending to create jobs; opening market to poor and middle-income buyers by creating special savings accounts with matching federal funds and lifting cap on FHA loans; expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit to create a working wage that would ensure that no full-time worker would fall below poverty level.
Favors the death penalty; supports the Brady Bill, which calls for a waiting period for handgun purchases and the banning of assault weapons; would provide federal matching funds to communities creating effective crime-control policies; would increase federal funding for community-based "beat" policing; supports tougher criminal penalties for white-collar crimes; favors funding drug treatment for anyone requesting it.
Support financing Head Start for every child; establishing a national examination system and annual national report card; creating a low-interest national trust fund for students who cannot afford higher education; support a GI bill-type of program in which young adult trade community service for a college or vocational school education.
Brown's flat tax draws criticism
Knight-Ridder Tribune/ANMANDA VOGT and STEVE LITTLE
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — As Jerry Brown's anti-establishment campaign gains horsepower, the former California governor's proposed 13-percent "flat tax" is coming under increased scrutiny. And most of it is critical.
Although Democratic front-runner Bill Clinton derides what he calls "Jerry's tax" as an assault on the poor, Brown defends the scheme as simple and fair.
Economists and tax analysts are not so sure. They agree on the plan's simplicity but challenge its fairness. And they say only the rich seem assured of liking the tax.
"It's the most crazy right-wing proposal that anybody's made in anyone's memory," said Robert McIntyre of the labor-backed Citizens for Tax Justice.
Brown is calling for two new taxes: a 13-percent income tax to replace all existing federal taxes, including Social Security taxes; and a federal 13-percent "value added" tax on the purchase of goods and services; that tax would go on top of existing state sales taxes.
The only deductions from the income tax would be for rent, mortgage interest and charitable contributions.
Yet for all the apparent simplicity of Brown's formula, analysts suggest his proposal amounts to a regressive tax that would penalize the poor and reward the rich.
Candidates fight against anti-establishment views
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Move over Pat Buchanan. The anti-Bush vote now is keeping company with an anybody-but-Clinton contingent on the other side of the ballot.
SOURCE Compiled by The Chicago Tribune
Jerry Brown's victory in the Connecticut primary yesterday demonstrated that a substantial anti-establishment vote lurks on both sides, Republican and Democratic.
ANALYSIS
Democratic front-runner Bill Clinton's surprising loss to Brown suggests that the Arkansas governor has his work cut out for him as attention shifts to the volatile New York primary two weeks from now.
The same forces of unrest that Buchanan rallied to embarrass Bush in earlier primaries now are being harnessed on the Democratic side by Brown.
"Brown is tapping the same kind of outsider vote," said Paul Erickson, a senior Buchanan adviser. "1992 will be remembered as the year of the outsider."
The situation is improving for Bush as Buchanan fades from the scene. But Clinton's problems seem to be compounding as Brown supplicants Buchanan as the prime grenade-thrower of this unpredictable presidential season.
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