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Thursday, January 15, 2004
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    Vermont Governor Howard Dean says that if elected President, he’d take back all of Bush’s income tax cuts but reduce payroll taxes. Does that make sense? Robert Reich and Grover Norquist debate the idea. Also, Carol Moseley-Braun drops out, a former priest seeks biblical grounding for abortion rights, corruption in the Americas, and should the Nets move to Brooklyn?

Black and Braun

Leon Wynter Author, American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business & The End of White America (Crown, 2002)
on Carol Mosely Braun's endorsement of Howard Dean

Payroll Over and Play Dead

Grover Norquist President, Americans for Tax Reform
and
Robert Reich Former Secretary of Labor, Social Policy Professor at Brandeis University,
visiting professor at UC Berkeley, founder of The American Prospect, and author of, most recently, I'll Be Short: Essentials for a Decent Working Society (Beacon Press, May 2003)
compares pay roll taxes to income tax

Population Mass

Dr. Dan Maguire Professor of Ethics, Marquette University. President of the Religious Consultation on Population on abortion and world religion and author, Sacred Choices: The Right to Contraception and Abortion in Ten World Religions Fortress Press; (July 2001)
discusses his work with family planning organizations

Lining their pockets

Charles Gasparino Senior Special Writer for The Wall Street Journal
on corruption in business
and
Sherman Katz William M. Scholl Chair in International Business , The Center for Strategic & International Studies
on the level of corruption in Mexico

Nay To The Nets

Jim Bouton former Yankee Pitcher and author, Ball Four,(Wiley, John & Sons, 1970) and Foul Ball (Bulldog Publishing, 2003)
says a Brooklyn arena would be a major league mistake

Aye To The Arena

Errol Louis Associate Editor at the New York Sun
says Brooklyn neighborhood groups have said no for too long

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