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Michael Burr -

     Clinton talked a lot about how he was going to tax the wealthy, and
bandied the $200K/year annual income figure as the only people who would get
hit; yet at the same time he claimed to get an incredible amount of new tax
revenue that way.  Bush is right; bleeding the rich isn't going to get all
that much income.

     At least Perot's gas tax plan makes sense; and there are no pretences
about the purpose of the tax.

     Clinton talked a lot about jobs, yet he seemed to be much more concerned
with government doles for the unemployed, new job training, etc.  At least
Perot's job proposal made sense; you reduce unemployment by expanding US
industry, not by creating highly-trained unemployed people to compete for jobs
that don't exist.  [Bush's idea of creating lots of minimum-wage jobs is a
poor substitute.]

     However, most of this talk is academic.  We will soon see how disasterous
a Clinton presidency will be.  While Clinton is clearly better than his three
predecessors, a combination of the plasticity of JFK (few people remember how
amazingly *unpopular* JFK had become by the fall of 1963), the dishonesty of
Nixon, and -- I predict -- the ineptitude of Carter, is not going to lead us
to a happy four years.

     People had better start thinking about keeping Pat Robertson out in 1996,
when `Anybody But Clinton' becomes the rallying cry.