The Phyllis Schlafly Report

It’s Time to Have Real Tax Cuts

At last somebody in government has stepped out from the crowd and said what Americans have been waiting to hear, namely, that he has a plan to cut and simplify our oppressive tax burden and let us spend our own money any way we want to spend it.

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Global Goals: Bailouts, Bosnia, Lies, and Hot Air

While most Americans were celebrating Christmas and exchanging gifts with family members, Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin spent Christmas Eve at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York conniving to force the American taxpayers to give gifts of unprecedented magnitude to the big U.S. banks that made foolish loans to corrupt Asian regimes.

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The Truth About National Testing

President Clinton is pressing ahead with his plan to nationalize public school curriculum through national reading tests for 4th graders and national math tests for 8th graders. Congressional opposition to national tests has been led by Senator John Ashcroft (R-MO) and Congressman Bill Goodling (R-PA), chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee.

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Is the NEA Union ‘Molding the Future’?

While most Americans were enjoying nonpolitical fireworks and cookouts over the Fourth of July weekend, 8,923 delegates and 5,469 registered non-delegates to the annual National Education Association (NEA) convention were meeting in Atlanta to celebrate their political victories.

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What’s Going on in the Schoolhouse?

President Clinton has been bragging that the current budget deal, agreed to by the Republican Congress headed by Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott, includes the largest increase in federal spending on public schools in 30 years and the largest increase in federal spending on colleges in 50 years.

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School-to-Work and Goals 2000

The Clinton Administration learned a big lesson from the defeat of its plan to take over the entire U.S. health care industry. Releasing its plan as a single 1,342-page bill in 1993 gave conservatives a large target to hit at and enabled them to identify at least a dozen fearsome features against which Americans could rally.

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It’s Time to Hold Federal Judges Accountable

Senator Orrin Hatch has taken exception to the New York Times’ criticism of his record as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and he wrote a letter to the editor to object. The Times had complained that Republican Senators have “politicized” the judicial confirmation process by not confirming enough of Clinton’s judicial nominees.

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