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Article: Happy warrior: Jack Kemp believes the very poor are no different from you and me - they just have bad incentives. (potential presidential candidacy for the Republican conservative) (Cover Story)
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- National Review
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- August 1, 1994
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Jack Kemp believes the very poor are no different from you and me--they just have bad incentives. But will the voters give him the chance to test his optimism?
WHO SAYS you can't turn back the clock? In November 1999, an elegant heiress named Christine Todd Whitman ran for governor of New Jersey on a platform of Republican golden oldies: a neo--Kemp-Roth 30 per cent cut in the state income tax, choice in education, and a promise to reduce state spending by squeezing out waste, fraud, and abuse. Liberal commentators like Eleanor Clift of Newsweek and Al Hunt of the Wall Street Journal predicted victory for the incumbent governor, Jim Florio, who noisily ...