US Supreme Court's power grab (was Re: Query)

Max Sawicky sawicky at epinet.org
Mon Dec 11 19:15:00 PST 2000


What budget mess? George will face the most felicitous budget situation in history. Five trillion in surpluses projected over ten years. Secondly, his view of surpluses is superior to Gore's. Cheney's remark about being on the "front edge of a recession" is the smartest thing said about fiscal policy by a politician in eight years, albeit for the wrong reasons.

My angle right now is to harp on progressive tax cuts, in contrast to Georgian tax cuts. Connecting that or spending to disenfranchisement would be a stretch. I would rather just focus on the latter, but a) I don't know if anybody would publish it since my credential is not electoral reform, and b) I'm organizing a conference on privatization at the moment. I'm always up to something, old boy. It's just not always what you would have me do. The guy who's in a better position to make an impact on electoral reform is Ralph Nader, and that is in fact what he is talking about (including disenfranchisement).

mbs

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. . . Yeah, so where's the op-ed? Write something about the budget mess facing Short Count George; find an angle on inner-city resources and how the disenfranchisement of voters intersects with unequal budgetary policy. What pisses me off is all the criticism and no action. -- Nathan Newman



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