Correspondence
Correspondence MUSCULAR RESPONSE AS SOMEONE WHO RARELY DISAGREES with The Weekly Standard's editorial stance, I am moved to gently reproach the timidity of the agenda advanced by Fred Barnes in...
...Sure, we can accelerate and make permanent the 2001 tax cut...
...I agree that simplicity is a virtue, and humbly offer this simple agenda: Cut wide, cut deep...
...But we must consider that a tiny first step...
...Billy Tauzin (R-LA) and others who would eliminate the income tax altogether in favor of either a flat tax or a national sales tax...
...And naturally there's always a camp that cowers in fear of the Democrats' launching a new round of class war...
...DEAN CHENG Vienna, VA...
...If class war has lost its appeal even in a weak economy, then we have nothing to fear from—to use Barnes's phrase—a "muscular response" to our economic problems...
...RICK BORNEMANN North Conway, NH WHO'S SENSATIONAL...
...HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH's recent report on anti-Muslim hate crimes following September 11 reached two straightforward conclusions (The Scrapbook, Nov...
...Correspondence MUSCULAR RESPONSE AS SOMEONE WHO RARELY DISAGREES with The Weekly Standard's editorial stance, I am moved to gently reproach the timidity of the agenda advanced by Fred Barnes in "Easy Does It" (Nov...
...That was red meat for battered investors sitting in front of their televisions, and it bombed big time...
...But it was economic growth in the 1990s that gave us the surplus, not Clinton's astronomical tax increase...
...It didn't work this November when, arguably, because of the economy, it should have...
...Indeed, it is The Weekly Standard that is engaging in sensationalism when it breathlessly suggests that "thousands of American soldiers and civilians" in the Middle East will be put at risk by the accurate reporting of the U.S...
...Far from sensationalizing the problem, as THE WEEKLY STANDARD inexplicably charges, we highlight the positive steps public officials took to prevent hate crimes and we make recommendations about what kinds of measures are effective...
...Public officials condemned attacks on Muslims, deployed police, prosecuted hate crimes, and reached out to Muslim communities...
...Program Human Rights Watch New York, NY PRESS BIAS HELPS GOP BRUCE BARTLETT hits on a powerful idea in "The GOP's Secret Weapon" (Nov...
...But his prescription for the economy is far too limited...
...The reason for the rise in the "stab in the back" theory in interwar Germany was that the German people had consistently been told that the war had been going well for them...
...Or we can heed the thoughtful advice of Rep...
...But phony populism and class war seems to be finally running out of gas...
...This generated suspicion and anger...
...In lowering the after-tax cost of owning stocks, we make them more attractive, as the last reduction in the capital gains tax clearly showed...
...Is it any wonder, then, that they should believe that voter fraud is the key to Republican victories...
...These poor Germans are like the hard-left Democrats and liberals, accustomed to reading everywhere that their perspective is accepted, that their views are unquestioned...
...Is it any wonder that the fringe of the Democrats seems to gain influence, when they think, not unreasonably, "No one I know disagrees with me...
...Yes, simplicity and focus are far better—and easier to defend—than a mishmash of initiatives meant to placate every Republican constituency...
...Second, many local governments and the federal government, including President Bush personally, responded vigorously to the increase in bias-motivated crimes...
...JAMIE FELLNER Director, U.S...
...Then, one day, they woke up to discover they had lost...
...Deficit hawks will hate this, of course...
...What he misses, though, is that it is the biased press itself that leads to liberal conspiracy theories about lost elections and other right-wing victories...
...First, not surprisingly, the incidence of such crimes increased dramatically following the terrorist attacks...
...Marginal rates must be cut further to, say, pre-Clinton levels...
...And to repair our damaged retirement portfolios—and really steal the Democrats' thunder in 2004—the investor class (half the country) needs big reductions in the capital gains tax...
...government's own statistics on anti-Muslim violence...
...And Barnes is right to name national security and the economy as the appropriate pillars of White House policy...
...Indeed, it seemed that every Republican who supported retroactive repeal of the Alternative Minimum Tax was smeared in television commercials for voting to give money to Enron...
Vol. 8 • December 2002 • No. 13
