91.   The key to the legislation, Ms. McLaughlin said, was the tax breaks for developers, which officials figured would lead to investments triggering more shops and restaurants.

92.   The minimum wage increase, for example, was forced down their throats, and they added small-business tax breaks to give it a Republican flavor.

93.   The line-item veto would allow the president to cancel specific spending items and limited tax breaks within five days of signing a bill into law.

94.   The less a family earns, the greater the tax break.

95.   The other half is the social-engineering half, which reserves tax breaks for certain kinds of behavior.

96.   The plan provides increased benefits for the unemployed and tax breaks for businesses aimed at creating new jobs.

97.   The real problem, Eichel argued, is that top tax rates are too high and special tax breaks too plentiful.

98.   There is no such hounding of corporations, whose tax breaks amount to seven times more than welfare for the poor.

99.   There would be subsidies for the poor and tax breaks for all Americans who pay insurance premiums.