Time: Mon Oct 28 16:22:01 1996
To: "Cravens, Roger D." <rbg3@CCDOSA1.EM.CDC.GOV>
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
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At 01:43 PM 10/28/96 EST, you wrote:
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>Subject: C-NEWS: The Promising Game
>Date: Tuesday, October 22, 1996 6:36PM
>
>Our nomination for the best review of
>Clinton Politics As Usual:
>
>>From Investor's Business Daily - Monday, October 14, 1996.
>
> The Promising Game
>
>President Clinton's promises have always been plentiful,
>cheap and empty. But in this election year, he's no longer
>content to be all things to all people. Now Clinton promises
>something for everyone--at a cost to no one.
>
>Take last month's campaign stop in Pueblo, Colorado. In a
>single speech, Clinton called for:
>
>1. Connecting schools to the Information Superhighway;
>2. Increasing drug testing and treatment in prisons by
>linking the programs with prison construction funding;
>3. Establishing a $ 10,000-a-year tuition tax credit;
>4. Cleaning up two-thirds of the nation's toxic dumps in the
>next four years;
>5. And, last but not least, balancing the budget "Without
>risking Medicare and Medicaid or cutting back on our
>investment in education and protecting the environment."
>
>Elsewhere on the campaign trail, the president has touted:
>
>6. An expansion of the Family and Medical Leave Act;
>7. A flex-time initiative;
>8. A $2.75 billion literacy program;
>9. $one thousand merit scholarships for the top 5 percent
>of hostile graduates
>10. Improvements to the 911 system
>11. Tougher trustee laws;
>12. School uniforms;
>13.An extension of the Brady Bill;
>14. $1,500 college scholarships, with students needing a
>B average to keep the aid after their first year;
>15. Job-training vouchers;
>16. A second round of Empowered Zones and Enterprise Communities;
>17. At least $13 billion more to combat drugs;
>18. More Pell Grants;
>19. A bigger college work study program;
>208. A permanent extension of a 10 percent tax credit for small
>businesses that pays for employee education;
>21. New standards to protect against E.coli bacteria;
>22. and $1.5 billion to restore the Florida Everglades.
>
>Most of the press treats the president's "Cheap" laundry list
>as following naturally from his concession to anti-big-government
>sentiments. The vision certainly isn't as sweeping as we once
>saw from the likes of FDR and LBJ. But the length of Clinton's
>list may make up for its lack of depth.
>
>Indeed, it may be easier to push big government by increments.
>The media (and many voters) now seem to distrust any SWEEPING
>solution.
>
>Bob Dole and Jack Kemp have gone to great lengths to explain the
>benefits of a 15 percent tax cut and the rest of the Dole economic
>plan. Nevertheless, television and newspaper reports on the plan
>trot out a parade of economists to wring their hands over the plan
>and the out-of-control deficit it would supposedly create.
>
>For some reason, the number of economists who endorsed the Dole plan
>is irrelevant - as is the question of the price tag for Clinton's
>laundry list.
>
>During Clinton's most fevered promise-fest, his train ride to the
>Democratic convention, the Los Angeles Times did look at how he means
>to pay for some items. It looked at the $1.9 billion environmental
>cleanup, the $3.4 billion-worth of urban initiatives, $1 billion
>in tax relief for homeowners, and the literacy program. (the last
>actually costs $2.75 billion, but the White House uses a $1.75
>billion figure, which most of the press accepts.)
>
>The funding breaks down like this:
>
>* $5.3 billion from ending an export tax break for multinationals;
>* $541 million from charging higher fees to corporate jet owners;
>* $500 million from auctioning off some part of the communication
>spectrum;
>* $420 million from higher fees for antitrust reviews of mergers;
>* $280 million from closing Medicare and Medicaid loopholes;
>* 475 million from suspending a tax credit for alternative fuels
>producers;
>* $200 million from increased penalties on companies that underpay
>taxes;
>* $200 million from changes to single-family limits on FHA loans;
>*and $200 million from changes to the corporate tax deduction
>for dividends received.
>
>Many of these taxes zap business. Others qualify as pie-in-the-sky
>and/or smoke-and-mirrors. The spectrum-auction dough for example,
>has now been "spent" at least a dozen times by politicians of all
>stripes.
>
>Other Clinton promises may do real good at a low cost - as far
>as the FEDERAL budget is concerned. But school uniforms, 911 and
>the like DO cost state and local governments. And SOMEONE has to
>pay for expansions of family leave mandates and the like - if
>these things were free, we'd have them without need of new laws.
>
>How much credit does a leader earn for "doing good," when others
>pay the bills?
>
>President Clinton has a long record of violating vows, of breaking
>the spirit and the letter of his promises. Bob Dole, by contrast,
>is known far and wide as a man of his word. The press knows this -
>and also that Clinton is a far smoother talker.
>
>If the press keeps giving Clinton a free ride on his absurd
>campaign promises, the media's pride in seeing through politicians'
>ploys will be exposed as the falsest of pretenses.
>
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> Administration, you must be getting your news from
> Sam Donaldson."
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