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1980-1985 Memorandum 1 (1980-1985)

handle is hein.amenin/memaei0003 and id is 1 raw text is: I - I I 1150 17th Street, N.W., Washington, D.Ci 20636- Spring 1980- Number Thirty-one Candidates Air Views In Special AEI Report The major candidates in the 1980 presidential elelidi their views on the campaign's key issues in The Candidates 1980: Where They Stand, published in March by AEI. Each candidate gives his position on the important issues of the campaign: energy, inflation, defense, government relations, world affairs, environmental protection, domestic priorities, economic growth, and presidential leadership and congres- sional relations. The same nine questions, which emerged from a series of conferences during AEI's annual Public Policy Week in December, were posed to each of the can- didates, who were asked to keep their answers concise. The essays in this book will not only put the candidates on record on a wide variety of issues, but will assist AEI and the public in exploring various options available for major public policy problems, says William J. Baroody, Jr., AEI president. Democrats responding were President Jimmy Car- ter, Edmund G. Brown, Jr., and Edward M. Kennedy. The Republicans included John B. Anderson, George Bush, Philip Crane, Robert J. Dole, Ronald Reagan, Howard H. Baker, and John Connally. Here's some of what they said: Anderson: Achieving a balanced budget will require us to forswear major new spending initiatives like national health insurance or the questionable MX missile system. It will require us to trim our wasteful spending programs, particu- larly some of the categorical grant-in-aid programs.e Bush: We can and we will bring inflation under control if we adopt a coordinated program to: balance the federal uudget . . . revitalize the economy through supply-side tax cuts . . . reduce the crushing tax burden . . . prune the thicket of conflicting and redundant regulations and laws. Carter: So far, double-digit price increases have been heavily concentrated in the areas of energy and housing. In the short term the goal of anti-inflation policy must be to 'quarantine' these increases and prevent them from spilling over into the basic wage-price structure of our economy. Crane: The Federal Reserve System resorts to money expansion to finance the monstrous deficits created by Con- gress. This practice is called monetization' of debt in Wash- ington. In the rest of the country it is called counterfeiting. and it has the same effect. Kennedy: In the short term, to break the back of the inflation psychology, I have proposed a six-month freeze on wages, prices, interests, rents, and profits, followed by fair mandatory controls for a limited additional period. Reagan: We need to restore the rewards for working and saving by cutting income tax rates and adjusting them Continued on page eleven I R Y President Gerald R. Ford, AEI's Distinguished Fellow. Ford Says Primaries Hurt Parties, Participation The advent of two-year campaigns and the proliferation of presidential primaries are seriously undercutting America's political parties, according to former President Gerald R. Ford, who discusses politics and other issues in A Conversa- tion with Gerald R. Ford: Thoughts on Economics and Poli- tics in the 1980s, the edited transcript of an AEI-sponsored forum published in March by the Institute. We saw political campaigning start earlier in 1979 than in any other pre-election year, and by the time we get through the final runoffs in November 1980, it will have been almost a two-year process, Ford says during the discussion with AEI scholars and members of the Washington press corps. It is my judgment that this long campaigning period dulls the public's interest and undercuts participation, the former president says. Ford also states that the proliferation of presidential primaries-35 in 1980-is seriously undercutting the parties. I think there are too many, they are too expensive, and they take too much time from the candidates. Ford, AEI's Dis- tinguished Fellow, recommends that primaries be regionalized and consolidated into a four-month period to alleviate the fragmentation in the current electoral system. Thus, under Ford's plan, six regions around the country would each hold their primaries on the same day, and all would fall between March and June of the presidential election year. Continued on page seven Digitized from Best Copy Available S 9

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