91.   In future years, the tax reductions would grow and would be much larger for the wealthiest taxpayers.

92.   In reality, however, Dole has embraced the politics rather than the economics of tax reduction.

93.   In economic terms that is far less significant than the tax reduction that President Ronald Reagan pushed through Congress at the beginning of his first term.

94.   In sharp contrast to efforts by House Republicans to put the tax reductions on a fast track, senators from both parties are urging more modest steps.

95.   Indeed, a capital gains tax reduction may well be part of a final balanced-budget package, White House economist Joseph Stiglitz said today.

96.   Interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve are a surer way to deal with the slowdown than tax reductions.

97.   Investors would approve of some small tax reductions, he said, but only if the deficit reductions were large enough, and real.

98.   It jeopardizes the future of Social Security and Medicare, whose trust funds would be siphoned away to underwrite outmoded military projects and tax reductions favoring the rich.

99.   It is true, as Budget Committee Democrats reminded him, that Greenspan had previously urged Congress to use budget surpluses for debt reduction rather than tax reduction.

100.   It has now become more open to striking a deal with the government, feeling that some tax reduction is better than nothing.