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PAGE FOUR - Sapulpa (Okla.) I>*»il> Herald Thursday. December 9,1999
Where they
stand
Compiled b> the Associate Press
FARM POLICY:
Support ethanol tax break?
Yes: Gary Bauer. Rill Bradley. George W Bush. Steve Forbes. Al Gore.
Oren Hatch
No: John McCain. „
Other: Pat Buchanan says only he would "support ethanol pnxluctton,
Forbes would phase out. no known position by Alan Keyes
GUN CONTROL:
Bauer. Enforce existing laws.
Bradley: Mandatory licenses for handgun buyers and gun registration
Raise license fees on dealers Ban “Saturday night specials
Buchanan: No compromise” on gun nghts
Bush: Enforce laws. Raise age for handgun purchases to -1 Supports
instant background checks at gun shows, opposes universal gun registration.
Forbes: Enforce laws. Favors 24-hour check at gun shows.
Gore: Mandatory photo ID licenses for handgun buyers Require manu-
facturers and federally licensed sellers to report gun sales to slate authority
Ban "Saturday night specials " Instant background checks at gun shows.
Hatch: Enforce laws. Extend background checks to gun shows and
expand them to look for mental problems
keyes: Right to gun ownership is essential to duty of citizens to resist
and overthrow the power responsible" if nghts are "systemaucally violat-
ed." „__
McCain: Instant checks at gun shows and pawn shops (Opposes waiting
periods. Opposed ban on assault-type weapons
HEALTH CARE:
Bauer. Expand option of medical savings accounts.
Bradley: Ensure near-universal access to affordable health coverage by
fully or partially subsidizing premiums for children and adults in low- to
middle-income families and by offering everyone a tax break for premiums
— replacing Medicaid Expand Medicare by adding optional benefit for
non-routine prescription drugs and by increasing housing and transportation
aid to elderly His estimated annual cost: up to $65 billion
Buchanan: Let workers invest money they would otherwise put into
Medicare, to prov ide for their own health care in retirement.
Bush: Expand medical savings accounts Strengthen tax incentives to
small businesses that provide health care to employees
Forbes: Expand medical savings accounts.
Gore: Expand coverage for children, create new prescnpuon drug bene-
fit under Medicare, let people above poverty level buy federally supported
state coverage Tax credits for premiums for self-employed and long-term
care His estimated annual cost: more than $250 billion over 10 years
Hatch: Expand medical savings accounts, allow full deductibility of
health insurance premiums for selt-employed.
keyes: Previously supported medical savings accounts.
McCain: Expand medical savings accounts, offer full tax deductibility
for self-employed health insurance and deductibility for long-term care.
MINIMUM WAGE:
Increase $5.15 federal minimum wage1
Bauer: Undecided.
Bradley: Y'es. $1 an hour over two years, then increase indexed to nse in
nation’s median wage
Buchanan: No.
Bush: Yes. by $1. but let states opt out
Forbes: No
Gore: Yes $1 over two years
Hatch: No.
keyes: No.
McCain: No - - - -
SOCI AL SECURITY:
Let worTers invest ponton of Social Security payroll tax in private
investment accounts?
Bauer: No. but cut payroll tax 20 percent, and cut projected increase in
: benefits for future retirees.
Bradley: "Skeptical”
Buchanan: Favors unspecified steps toward pnvatizalion.
Bush: Yes.
Forbes: Yes. Phase in program allowing younger workers option of
investing majority of their payroll taxes privately.
Gore: No.
Hatch: Possibly in the future
keyes: Yes.
McCain: Yes.
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Bradley offers fair sport for Gore
WTO protestors
in Seattle could
use lessons in
basic economics
Speaking of the turbulent and
sometimes zany anti-trade demonstra-
tions in Seattle, and as expected by
those who knew him. economist Her-
bert Stein keeps influencing us after
passing away in September.
Stein was a colleague of mine at
the American Enterprise Institute, ami
it was a privilege to know him. learn
from him and even occasionally dis-
agree with him.
He was a former ( hairman of the
Council of Economic Advisers, and
was one of a kind! a wise economist
who could write interestingly and gra-
cefully. with both humor and bite He
was a Republican, but during the
1980s he took the supply-side thcor-
COMMENTARY
By
Ben
Wattenberg
Newspaper
Enterprise
Association
Sen. John McCain. Ariz. was the
tactical winner of last week's Republi-
can forum in New Hampshire. But the
strategic winner — unless Texas Gov.
George W. Bush sharpens up his act
— will be Vice President Al Gore.
McCain won the night by respond-
ing with wit to questions about his
temper, by showing mastery of for-
eign policy and by appealing to inde-
pendent voters, who could help him
beat Bush in the Feb. 1 primary.
Bush, though, is the national front-
runner and figures he'll win the GOP
nomination by avoiding mistakes.
That he did Thursday night, but he
gained no practice for the wars to
come against, presumably. Gore.
Bush is unready for the kind of sav-
aging Gore is administering to former
Sen Bill Bradley. D-N.J. What's in
store for Bush will be much worse.
The model, as several commenta-
tors have foreseen, is the 1988 pound-
ing that Bush's father's campaign
inflicted on Democrat Michael Duka-
kis. dragging him from a 17-point lead
to a 8-point defeat.
Gore, remember, was the first per-
son to use Willie Horton against Du-
kakis in the 1988 primaries Bush’s
father's campaign later used that, the
pollution in Boston Harbor and Duka-
kis' weak position on defense to de-
stroy him. Dukakis' own ineptitude
helped, of course.
This year. Gore is aiming straight
for Bradley’s jugular and using any
weapon close at hand, especially Brad-
ley's expansive health plan. Gore is
scaring voters into thinking Bradley
means to "abolish” Medicare. Mcdic-
Capitol Roll Call
By
Morton
Konorake
Newspaper
Enterpnse
Association
aid and Social Security, and drive the
country back into Rcagan-cra deficits.
Gore, the Buddhist temple fund-ra-
iser, also is making something shame-
ful of Senate support for his state's
pharmaceutical industry and of the in-
dustry's campaign donations to him
Gore's latest attacks play off Brad-
ley's accurate statement that reducing
benefits and extending the retirement
age arc among the options a reason-
able person would have to consider to
keep Social Security solvent.
Gore accused Bradley the other
day of planning "radical changes” in
Social Security and saving that benefit
cuts arc "reasonable."
Bradley is being forced onto the de-
fensive and is being reduced to charg-
ing Gore is distorting his record. W'hcn
Bradley asserts that Gore has given up
on the idea of comprehensive health
reform. Gore accuses him of “using dc
sperate attacks to hide his record "
Gore said in an interview the other
day that he’d prefer to have no oppo
sition for the Democratic nomination,
but that Bradley is a "blessing in dis-
guise," giving him early practice with
"tough competition
That’s what Bush needs, but he is-
n’t getting it. The format the Bush ca-
mpaign insisted on for Iasi Thursday
— set-piece questions from modera-
tors and no interaction among candi-
dates — was nice and safe, but it do-
esn't harden him for debates with Gore.
Moderator Brit Hume said after-
ward that he and co-moderator Karen
Brown thought they had to pose top-
of-thc-ncws questions about Bush s in-
tellectual depth and McCain's temper.
Clearly, both candidates were rea-
dy. but McCain responded with case
and humor — and converted the issue
to his advantage in wooing indepen
dents away from supporting Bradley
in the Democratic primary and voting
for him in the GOP contest.
McCain projected the image of a
feisty outsider far better than did the
stolid Steve Forbes, who kept ham-
mering “Washington insiders” — and
their alleged tics to Bush — as obses-
sively as McCain talked up campaign
finance reform in a previous New Ha-
mpshire forum
By contrast. Bush responded to qu-
estions about his preparation for office
with chunks of his stock speech re-
counting his record of “leadership'' in
Texas; he incessantly reminds people
would be the world’s 11th lar gest
economy if it were a separate nation.
To his credit. Bush did remind
viewers that he's run a successful
“foreign policy" in Texas by maintain-
ing good relations with Mexico. And
he deftly fielded a specific question
about 'Tier 2" air quality standards
posed to test his grasp of detail
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More on Wal-Mart
Dear Editor:
On Saturday. Dec. 4. my organiza-
tion. Sapulpa Business & Professional
Women, was scheduled to ring bells
for the Salvation Army Kettle Drive,
which is done every Christmas Holi-
day season, as everyone knows.
I had the first shift from 9 a.m until
10 a m., when my relief members came
on duty. When I came back at approx-
imately 3 p.m., I found the kettle had
been moved from the foyer where I
had left my people earlier in the morn-
ing. It was outside the door in the
misting rain with a Salvation Army
worker ringing the bell. The worker
was unable to tell me what had hap-
pened
1 found out that Wal-Mart had told
my members that they would have to
move from the foyer out into the dri-
ving rain to ring the bell. As these
ladies are near 70 years old. I’m not
surprised they were unable to stand
out in the rain.
The Salvation Army was called,
and they came and got the kettle and
bell. Later, they came back, put up a 5-
foot fly, and their workers, still out in
the elements, rang the bell.
I talked with one of the members of
management of Wal-Mart, and they
said that there was to be no fund rais-
er soliciting inside the store, which
apparently included the foyer.
Wal-Mart is making a conscious
decision to selectively decide who can
solicit in their store and who can’t,
because in front of where American
National Bank has its office was a
charity fund-raiser with pictures with
Santa and Mrs. Clause being charged
a fee. The sign behind them clearly
stated the proceeds went to charities.
There is also a display inside the
store requesting donations for the
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tation.
Considering that Salvation Army is
the largest charity organization in this
city and surrounding area and docs the
most good, why would Wal-Mart deny
them the opportunity to collect as
much as they possibly could this lime
of the year?
Some people arc not going to stand
in the rain and/or inclement weather to
gather money to put into the kettle.
This reduces the funds the Salvation
Army would otherwise collect if they
were inside the foyer.
I know that Wal-Mart contributes
to various chanties, but does this give
them the right to throw the Salvation
Army out into the elements during the
worst time of the year weather-wise?
Shame on you Wal-Mart.
Undo L Turnbull, President.
Sapulpa Business &: Professional
Women
To Whom It May Concern:
1 am a member of the Masonic
Lodge in Sapulpa.
On Saturday. Dec. 4, 1999. several
members of our lodge were scheduled
to ring the bells for the Salvation
Army at Wal-Mart Supcrcentcr. This
is an annual event which our lodge
takes pride in participating in.
After some of our members arrived
and began ringing the bells the man-
ager of Wal-Mart told us that we were
not allowed to solicit and must go out-
side if we wanted to continue ringing
the bells.
That may have been alright on a
nice day, but this Saturday it was cold
and raining outside. Wc were not pre-
pared to stand outside in these weath-
er conditions without prior notice, and
I am sad to say that the Salvation
Army lost six hours of donations on
this Saturday alone because of this
decision.
1 don’t understand why on this Sat-
urday around 11 a.m. the decision was
made to change the location that the
bell ringers could stand.
What difference docs it make if we
are just inside or just outside the doors
of Wal-Mart1 I thought this was sup-
posed to be a charitable event that
takes place every year to help others
in a time of need.
Why would someone want to be so
petty about where we stand when it all
goes for charity and to help our com-
munity!
Respectfully,
Greg Murphy, Member,
Sapulpa Ijodge So. 170
On religious freedom
Dear Editor:
Congressman Ernest Istook of
Oklahoma is leading an effort to get
Congress to pass the Religious Free-
dom Amendment to the Constitution
If this amendment becomes a part of
the Constitution, for all practical pur-
poses, it will overturn a 1980 U.S.
Supreme Court decision known as
Stone v. Graham.
This decision has made it illegal to
post the Ten Commandments on the
wall in any public school. This deci-
sion contains the following statement;
“If the posted copies of the Ten
Commandments arc to have any effect
at all. it will be to induce the school-
children to read, meditate upon, per-
haps to venerate and obey, the Com-
mandments. However dcsircablc this
might be as a matter of private devo-
tion, it is not a pcrmissablc state
objective under the Establishment
Clause.”
In one school in my hometown, a
12-year old boy was suspended from
school because one of his teachers had
found that he had written the name of
one of his teachers and a number of
his fellow students in his own note-
book, with the word "kill" in front of
them.
If it is not a pcrmissablc state
objective to encourage schoolchildren
to obey the Ten Commandments, one
of which is "Thou shall not kill," was
the boy at fault or was that decision?
Did that 1980 Supreme Court deci-
sion have anything to do with the
increase in juvenile crime since 1980’
According to the Bureau of Justice
Statistics, the U. S. prison rate —
which for 50 years had held steady at
about 110 per 100,000 U.S. residents
sky-rocketed between 1980 and 1990
to 450 per KXI.IXK) residents.
Did that decision have anything to
do with the AIDS epidemic, which did
not start until 1981, the year after that
decision was handed down. One of the
leading causes of the spread of AIDS
is dultry.
One of the Commandments which
this decision made it illegal to post on
schoolroom walls, was, "Thou shall
not commit adultery.”
If anyone reading this letter would
like information on how he or she
might help to make the Religious
Freedom Amendment a part of the
Constitution. I would be glad to send
such information free to anyone who
will send a stumped, self addressed
envelope to me al P.O. Box 721,
Gillette. WY 82717.
Sincerely.
Stephen Tarver
Gillette. Wyo.
ics of Reaganomics to the woodshed,
often in (he Wall Street Journal, a
supply-side haven. His work was bas-
ed on sound economic principles, and
typically rooted in data, presented fa
irly. noting when the data were weak,
when there were legitimate differenc-
es of opinions, yet prepared to unma-
sk views based on hokum statistics.
In 1992. Stem and his AEI col-
league and fnend Murray Foss pub-
lished The Illustrated Guide to the
American Economy, a slender volume
both elemental and sophisticated,
dedicated to relating what was
known, and what was not, about what
was going on economically. The book
was backed up by 135 colorful charts,
with lucid explanations and comments.
As it happened, it came out at a
hothouse moment, when a brief and
shallow recession, which had lasted
all of nine months in 1990-91, was
hailed as an economic maelstrom
Ross Perot was preaching conspir-
acy. Pat Buchanan discovered that live
unemployed didn't have jobs. Supply-
siders had their own cures for cata-
strophe. Although not prepared for
political purposes, the book was a to-
nic, designed to address "ignorance of
basic facts about the American econo-
my or, what is worse, (those who) ma-
ke assumptions about it that are not so
— or at least are highly doubtful."
Had American voters in 1992 seen
the charts, perhaps the vote count
might have been different. Certainly,
some TV ads by Perot and Bill Clin
ton would have been giggle bait.
Now, the third edition of The lllus
trated Guide to the American Econo-
my has just been published. The new
book is larger than its predecessor
(175 charts), with additional research
material. Again, the tone is moderate
and generally up-bcat. Without dis-
claiming it, neither Stein nor Foss was
not ready to sign on to the optimism
of those who claim there is a "new
paradigm" driving a "new economy."
With such credibility established,
and with yahoos of both the left and
right on the march in Seattle to roil
the meeting of the World Trade Orga-
nization. it is interesting to see where
The Guide guides us regarding trade.
In 1958 just 9 percent of American
Gross Domestic Product was in for-
eign trade and other international
transactions (4.4 percent in import,
4.3 percent in exports). By 1998 the
share of GDP had risen to 31 percent
(17 percent imports. 14 percent exports).
Why did it happen? Steinfoss
stresses reductions in tariffs and
reduced costs of transportation and
communication, as well as higher
incomes in emerging economies.
Such trade allows countries “to con-
centrate on producing things at which
they were relatively cfficicn t..." and
that helps consumers on both sides of
the trade equation through better
products at lower prices.
But what about the allegedly nega-
tive "balance of trade"? Wc import
more than we export, don’t we?
Doesn’t matter, says Steinfoss.
We’re sending out U.S. dollars for tho-
se imports, and those dollars can ei-
ther be kept overseas, in which case
we’ve bought something for nothing,
or invested back in America in securi-
ties, real estate or businesses, which
create jobs and capital here.
In fact, this foreign-owned "capital
stock" in America has climbed from
11 percent of all U.S. assets in 1987 to
22 percent in 1997. (Meanwhile, as-
sets owned by Americans abroad cli-
mbed. from 11 percent to 17 percent.)
Stein and Foss readily concede
that some American businesses and
American employees are hurt from
foreign trade competition, but also
add deftly "just as some businesses
and workers have suffered as a result
of increased competition from other
American businesses and workers."
On balance? Says The Guide: "...
there is no doubt that the increase in
foreign transactions has been a sub-
stantial net benefit to Americans." I
am most impressed by the words "no
doubt.” coming from a man who used
such language very rarely. Think
about that, Seattle demonstrators!
I have no doubt about it either, and
not just because 1 read it in The
Guide. Over the years I had the privi-
lege of hearing it personally from
Herb Stein.
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