University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 29, 1988
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'Card-carrying' comments befuddle ACLU members
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union, with a list of causes running the political spectrum from the Black Panthers to Lt. Col. Oliver Worsham is somewhat bewildered for Florida as the president of the presidential campaign.
Almost everyday, Republican George Bush criticizes his Democratic rival as "a card-carrying member of the party." My values and values are not the values of the ACLU." Bush told a rally on Monday.
The card-carrying member, Michael Duakus, has backed away from the group as Bush's relentless criticism apparently strikes a chord with voters. To the dismay of ACU officials, the Duakus campaign released a list of issues on which the governor differs with the group.
Throughout its 68-year history, the group has been associated primarily with the left, although it has come to the defense of clients that span the political spectrum. It mounts Party to the Nazi Party, from the Klu Klau Khan to the Black Panthers. It was founded in 1920, the outgrowth of an organization formed in the 1930s, led by World War I and to support the rights of critics to speak out against the war.
"You know, we don't choose our cuts," said Ira Glasser, the mayor of Ft. Lauderdale who are representing more people on the left, it because the government is too large to handle."
Among those it has defended recently are former White House aides northear and Lyn Nolziger. The ACLU also has supported, in recent months, the Rife Association and the National Conservative Political Action Committee.
Most people don't associate the ACLU with those causes, of course, and some have even concocted O'Connor conceded that her role is a relatively new "mission" of the group. She conceded that the ACLU needs to do a better job getting its message
"If ever there was proof of it, it's been in the past few months," she said.
"We don't expect Mr. DuKakis to guide his campaign by our agenda, nor should we guide ours by his," said "But our concern in all this is that he not fall into the trap that Bush has had for the ACLU in suggesting organization is out of the mainstream in most of our positions."
That, of course, is precisely the point that the Bush campaign has tried to make. In a speech earlier this
week, Republican vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle called on Dukakis to "renounce all their bizarre positions."
The positions most frequently cited are those on child pornography, tax exemptions for churches, decriminalization of abortions, support for abortion and gay rights.
For the most part, AGLU officials don't deny that the organization holds the positions for which it is attacked.
It opposes all censorship, maintaining that even child porchography is protected by the First Amendment. However, officials stress that they favor laws that preclude the education of children for porch photography.
It opposes tax exemptions for churches on the basis that they amount to government subsidization and organiza- tion's most controversial positions
It favors the decriminalization of drugs and prostitution as victimless activities. And it strongly supports the right of a man's right to choose an abortion.
"We take positions on hundreds of issues, and it would be real unreal if we didn't say Glasser." "In fact, I think it's fair that I say not that all with of
Bush proposes 'nest egg plan'
But Dukakis says tax deferred savings will benefit wealthy
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Private economists reacted with skepticism yesterday to George Bush's proposal for a tax on wealthy savings accounts for the middle class.
Democrat Michael Dukakis already was using the proposal as ammunition for his contention that a Bush presidency would favor the rich. However, Republican Bush desired his plan to set up "individual savings accounts," saying they would "give taxpayers a little nest egg."
Many private economists called the tax savings inconsequential and said it was unlikely such accounts be used by many people in the U.S.
While the interest was accumulated tax free, it would be taxed at the
The vice president's proposal, which he first described Tuesday, would allow people to deposit up to $1,000 annually in a special savings account. He said the interest if the money was kept in the account for at least five years.
saver's regular tax rate once it was withdrawn.
That would mean the only benefit to the taxpayer would come from additional interest earned on money that would otherwise be laid immediate.
The amount of the benefit would depend on whether the taxpayer was being taxed at a 15 or 28 percent rate and, much more, his much investment was.
Michael Boskin, a Stanford economist and a top Bush economic adviser, said that a taxpayer being taxed at 28 percent will付 $1,000 into the special account every year for 10 years, would accumulate about $3 million in taxes over 50 years. This assumes the investments earned to percent annually.
Boskin called the plan a "modest additional proposal" and said it would not save much, but other savings incentives such as existing Individual Retirement Accounts and Bush's proposal for retirement income would be tax income from the bonds would be tax
free if it went to college tuition
But other economists said the mid- benefit benefits the Bush campaign was claiming even more be less when the recession period or at lower interest rates.
"This is an attempt to help the middle and lower economic classes save more money, but it is small potatoes and it is questionable as to whether anyone can really anything at all," said Allen Sinai, chief economist of the Boston Co.
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"George Bush plays Santa Claus to the wealthy and Ebenezer Serenge to the rest of us." Dukakis said yesterday.
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