Michael Tanner
Michael Tanner
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Whether it will help remains to be seen. We have to be careful not to generalize before we have enough information.
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The Social Security surplus is always being spent. Now it's going to defense and rebuilding rather than paying down debt. From a psychological standpoint, spending it may even be good for privatization. Opponents might use that surplus as a hedge, saying we've got money in a lock-box and don't need to privatize.
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Every event needs a sacrificial lamb. They'll be serving portions of me, I understand, for lunch.
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You have no legal right to those benefits at all. There is nothing in the world that is less guaranteed than a politician's promise.
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This is the first time in the country's history where simply by virtue of living somewhere you are mandated to purchase a product.
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I think you'll see the beginning of a renewed push.
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I don't think either one of them is really telling the whole story. What Bush is saying is that if you eat your spinach, you'll be able to have some ice cream for dessert. Al Gore, on the other hand, just wants to pretend that the spinach doesn't exist.
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Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape.
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The future of research is interdisciplina ry, and will quickly take us into areas that today we cannot even foresee. This building gives us the space and the flexibility to go where the imagination of our faculty takes us.
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The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the break-up of low-income families have been extensively documented. The primary way that those with low incomes can advance in the market economy is to get married, stay married, and work—but welfare programs have created incentives to do the opposite.
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The future of research is interdisciplinary, and will quickly take us into areas that today we cannot even foresee, ... This building gives us the space and the flexibility to go where the imagination of our faculty takes us.
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You can't use private accounts to make up the Social Security shortfall; the hole is just too deep.
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Individual accounts offset some of the benefit reduction you'd otherwise see.