Follow the (tax) money
Dionne, E.J. Jr.
anti-abortion Catholic can expect to re- When I argue with non-Catholics about The secular alternative, the personal ceive, he assured his readers that her po- an issue like...
...Especially out of Social Security...
...Now, however, I am more subsidize private retirement accounts that lower-income people, by definition, secure...
...Be- amined, it doesn't amount to much...
...Bush is ism...
...A Catholic arguing an adult...
...broad-based tax cuts that especially help income ceiling in each category is cut in Here is the great underreported fact the well-off, or for tax reductions and half...
...It goes without saying that the argument is tainted, beneath consideration because of its source, because it is FOLLOW THE (TAX) MONEY clear that it has been never formulated The difference between Bush & Gore but simply swallowed whole, along with the Virgin Birth and the Incarnation...
...For un- centrate benefits at the upper end, for from the federal surplus that's left over married individuals without children, the simple reason that upper-income after debt reduction...
...As a result, the future is unlikely to have the settled patterns of the past...
...Bush wants every dollar they saved...
...that is needed to change the world...
...Of course I am a Catholic, I say for the poor and the middle class was will get less out of their 2 percent than proudly...
...will see the government put up $3 for right nor the ability to think through Take the retirement plan...
...better-off people who pay the full Soasked to come up with additional, non- George W. Bush's campaign has done a cial Security tax...
...To the north of my study lie the United States, Scotland has not become an cliff-caves reputed to have been inhabited by eighth-century independent state...
...What a relief to discover that and making a decision in the light of the actual belief and it is equally imporher position was not anything she be- faith...
...D against abortion has nothing to say...
...Hin- fine job poking fun at all the Gore trans- the amount of money flowing into Sodus are not expected, to produce non- formations-Bush folks like to talk about cial Security will inevitably require cuts Hindu arguments for their vegetarian- Gore, Version 6.0 and counting...
...It remains part of the United Kingdom, Christian hermits-the Culdees (Celide: "Friends of God...
...If income people should be given a chance "support for tax cuts and Social Securithey could save only $300 a year, the to build wealth-without buying the ty reform is more important than his government would put in $900...
...His immediate concern was to alert John Haldane Labour to the danger of pursuing policies at odds with Catholic values...
...Many things can be said about being Catholic had nothing to do with posal he made in June to this, but two are especially salient...
...I find it ferences between these two candidates...
...But it has will be willing to make his side of that structure than to those at the top...
...For many years I was at pains to re- 1 Gore's campaign has gone Social Security tax and allow people to assure my accusers that I had indeed through so much public use the money to set up private acworked this out myself and that my A reinvention that the pro- counts...
...First, my opinion...
...If a couple earnthe articles of the faith one professes...
...No argument, no matter how arresting, provocative, or original is worth con- O F SEVERAL MIN sidering if it is the product of a Catholic E.J...
...to take two percentage points out of the ing $29,000 managed to scrape togethCommonweal 7 July 14, 2000 National Review, the conservative flagship magazine, is headlined "The Right Choice" and it rejects the idea that Bush has mechanically "moved to the center...
...What else...
...anti-abortion Catholic can expect to re- When I argue with non-Catholics about The secular alternative, the personal ceive, he assured his readers that her po- an issue like abortion, I see a kind of belief, is fine as far as it goes, but that sition was different...
...And for the higher end of the middle plans...
...Gore's potpourri of tax reductions As the good conservatives at National class (couples earning between $60,000 flow primarily to the middle and bot- Review understand, the central issue in and $100,000) the government would put tom...
...Christianity came to Scotland with Saint Ninian at the n May 1999, Scotland went to the polls to elect end of the fourth century and established itself in a series members of the newly created Scottish Parlia- of settlements...
...0 plan embraces the strongest argument The lead editorial in the July 3 issue of© 2000, Washington Post Writers Group gested recently that this historical connection could no longer be taken for granted...
...However, while Catholi- tion of pilgrims from throughout Europe, come to venerate cism has traditionally been associated with the Socialist the bones of the Apostle...
...this issue speaks to the fundamental dif- benefit heavily tilted in favor of those What is a belief, after all...
...more conservative than his sunny and middle and below who haven't fully The difference between Gore and compassionate speeches would suggest...
...lieved, but was in fact personal...
...The power of a Armstrong-Jones was just another one make an independent decision...
...More generally, however, Scotland's hisCATHOLIC SCOTLAND...
...It's all and even courtesy...
...shared in the economic boom...
...in a genuine religion, Catholic or other- Catholics inherit a treasure when they My own views on abortion have been wise, for belief is meaningless if it is embrace the faith, but if it comes unexsimilarly dismissed more times than I forced...
...religious divisions have diminished...
...One of the most ancient of these is Saint AnI ment...
...It spun of some kind in future benefits...
...The Gore leaves the Social Security sysand well-developed...
...belief which is held in common over of those brainwashed Catholics, a vic- To be a mature Catholic adult means generations is that it has stood the test of tim of genetics and the pope, lurching that one assents to the commonly held time...
...Both are conservative priorities, and both are bolder policies than previous Republican presidential candidates have advocated...
...You wonBush is that Gore gives larger benefits That has largely been lost, even though der how forcefully and explicitly Gore to those at the bottom of the income Bush isn't hiding anything...
...Second, that reducing Quaker reasons for their pacifism...
...Bush's big income tax cuts con- this campaign is how to use the money up a dollar for every $3 saved...
...That ing "Amen," has far more than a perpermission to disregard logic, reason, is a childish faith and not an option for sonal position: she has a belief...
...with modest incomes...
...OIONNE, Jr...
...Under the plan, amusing the way so many people sup- They are differences Bush has wisely outlined by top Gore aide Ron Main, pose that religious belief precludes been playing down and Gore's cam- couples earning under $30,000 a year thought, almost as if one has neither the paign has failed to highlight...
...For a moment there, I thought over, denied by destiny the chance to uation at the moment...
...It is a contradiction in terms...
...when the Catholic line is so convincing It's smart spin, but it's not true...
...torical-political allegiances and traditional class, ethnic, and Well, partly...
...The accounts are capped at $2,000 a about the 2000 campaign: Bush is far spending programs to help those in the year for individuals, $4,000 for a couple...
...but now has something akin to a state legislature...
...and Gore can be seen in their overall tax in the future...
...The problem with working religious (Caroline's Roman Catholic think me a pathetic victim of my up- out every position autonomously is that faith is extremely important to her), her bringing, hopelessly conditioned to re- we are human beings and all too likely position on abortion is a personal one...
...Contrary to the impression of some in drews, from where I am writing...
...he succeeds on taxes and Social Securiings by couples earning $30,000 to The larger differences between Bush ty, it will be easier to limit government $60,000 a year would be dollar-for-dollar...
...can count by thoughtful, apparently in- lief is also meaningless if it is mindless...
...Assent can only ing to maturity, however, must grapple her own, mindlessly spouting the party happen after serious and thoughtful con- with it anew and either accept it or reject line whenever the subject of abortion sideration, weighing different viewpoints it...
...Each person comthrough life without a single thought of beliefs of the religion...
...The pre- Atop the cliffs stand the ruins of the medieval cathedral, in dictable result of the elections was that parties of the left its glory one of the largest in Christendom and the destinaand center-left formed the majority...
...Will it be used for Main said, the match is the same but the people pay the most in income taxes...
...Why should Catholics go to all the the new Gore idea as a pale imitation of honest enough to promise only that he effort of finding non-Catholic support Bush's idea of carving private accounts will make no cuts in benefits to those for their stand on abortion...
...Tellingly, the er $1,000 in savings, the government of Social Security privatizers-that low- magazine goes on to note that Bush's would add $3,000 to their account...
...now in or near retirement...
...mind...
...it has history...
...case...
...Quakers are not quickly denigrated as copycat politics...
...The two issues to which Bush has devoted the most time since winning the primaries are free-market reform of Social Security and missile defense," the editors write...
...And not only that, distinction between Gore and Bush on tem intact, but adds a new retirement but we believe it...
...Gore's not been lost on shrewd conservatives...
...A Catholic who knows what she postelligent people, simply because I am a We cannot believe simply because the sesses, who has studied it all before sayCatholic...
...idea that a wealth-creation plan needs spending initiatives-not least because if The government match for the sav- to be carved out of Social Security...
...Bush, the magazine correctly notes, "has been reliably conservative on the issues that matter...
...It is not possible to be held hostage tant that that process be acknowledged...
...The struggle is an important part of came up...
...Although deeply pitying look in their eyes, as if they isn't very far...
...Somehow this fact gives them pope or a priest or a nun says so...
...Looking southward I can see the fifLabour party, Cardinal Thomas Winning of Glasgow sug- teenth-century tower of the university's Saint Salvator's ColCommonweal 8 July 14, 2000...
...peat the same tired phrases over and to adjust reality to fit our particular sitWhew...
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