Ashcroft says his proposal is designed to make the tax code more fair while addressing a stagnation in take-home pay workers have suffered since the 1993 and 1990 tax increases. This is the biggest tax most Americans pay. The minimum wage affects a very narrow group of people. Corporations get to deduct their part of this tax.
Families ought to be able to deduct their part, too.
A copy of the bill and four pages of information about it, including two May 8 Investor's Business Daily articles, is available from Melissa Ranwick of The National Center for Public Policy Research or from Senator Ashcroft's office. Details will be announced at a press conference that will probably be held next week, he said. 250 Democratic and Religious Leaders Arrested Without Charge in Former USSR Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation reported that the former Soviet republic of Belorus has just rounded up 250 democratic and religious leaders and is now holding them without formally pressing charges. Weyrich learned of the incident from the son of one of the detainees and contacted the State Department. They were all but defending the arrests.