European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                George Bush catches a football tossed to him by a Cleveland Brown player at he arrived Lor a Campaign speech at Akron Canton Airport in Ohio last week. Bush and Dukakis different visions by Christopher Connell associated press George Bush and Michae Dukakis look at the Sam America and see different countries they Dilfer on a Host of particulars from capital punishment to capital gains school prayer to strategic defense initiative. But Ihei Battle Tor the while House is essentially a War Over starkly Dili Erent visions of How the country is faring and where it is headed. Bush inc Republican sees a prosperous America that has created 19 million jobs in six years the engines of growth stoked by lax cuts and less government regulation. Dukakis the Democrat sees a nation Hal has mortgaged our children s future to a Mountain of debt and looters along on a spurious two paycheck Prosperity where the Rich have gotten Richer 37 million men. Women and children have no health insurance and 3 million sleep on he streets or in shelters. Their political rhetoric Alfeis paradoxes. Bush Speaks of a Kinder and gentler nation but wages a slashing Campaign pummelling his opponent As a Liberal who is sol i on crime weak on defense and even opposed making teachers Lead the pledge of allegiance. Dukakis ends speeches with the refrain the Besl America is Yel to come but the heart of his message is that there Are too Many Loose ends in the nation s social and economic Labonc. The Republican promises Lurcher tax cuts and government restraint White maintaining a Tough National defense. The Democrat espouses getting Tough with tax cheats and promises to make health insurance a Basic of right. He Speaks of building up conventional weaponry but cutting Back ski and nuclear missiles. Neither candidate has said How he proposes to Deal with the financial crisis controlling the savings and loan Industry which could require up to $50 billion in taxpayer financed bailouts. Here is a look Al where icy stand on major issues taxes Bush vows nol to raise taxes. He would lower the 33 percent lop capital gains lax Rale to 15 percent a move Bush says would Spur investment and bring in More Revenue not less. Dukakis claims the capital gains tax Cul would Cost $40 billion Over five years with the Lich reaping most of Tho benefits. Bush favors a toddler lax credit for poor families of up to � 1,000 for each child under age 4 new credits or Oil and Gas exploration a lax deferral Lor Middle income families on up to $1,000 a year in savings. Dukakis says no serious candidate can Rule Oul the possibility of lax increases but promises that would Only be a last resort. His first target would be a crackdown on lax evaders who he says cos the Treasury $110 billion a year deficit neither has Given a detailed blueprint for overcoming the $150 billion a year deficit. Bush s Broad Brush solution is a so called flexible freeze on All Federal spending except social Security that would allow programs including defense to grow no faster than inflation he has not said what would be Cullo accommodate promised spending increases on education and child care or How he would handle medicare whose costs have risen much faster than inflation. He favors a line item veto and a balanced budget Amend Mon to the Constitution Dukakis promises Tough choices on spending but Lor the most Parl refuses to say where the a would fall. He anticipates saving billions on ski and missile programs and suggested the farm support program is also Ripe for savings. He opposes a line item veto and a balanced budget amendment social Security Bush promises to keep hands off social Security benefits and Cost of living increases. Dukakis claims Bush would have to raid the social Security Trust fund to pay for weapons the capital gains lax Cul and other promises but the Republican denies it Dukakis maintains social Security would be safer in the hands of a democratic president. Health Dukakis who has made Universal health insurance a rallying cry of his Campaign would require most employers to Olfer workers and their families Basic coverage which would help 22 million of the nation s 37 million uninsured. Dukakis says that would Cost the Treasury nothing but Bush says in amounts to a lax of $35 billion to $40 billion on businesses and would Cost Many jobs. Bush flavors pressuring states to expand medicaid coverage for the poor and near poor and would let some people buy into medicaid. Dukakis supports the Long term Home health care Bill of rep. Claude Pepper d fla., which would provide first Dollar coverage of Homo care in part by levying the 1.45 percent medicare payroll lax on All wages not just those up to $45,000. Bush avers a constitutional amendment Banning most abortions and wants criminal penalties for abortionists but not Tor women who obtain abortions. Dukakis supports the Legal right of women to choose an abortion and backs medicaid funding of abortions Tor the poor. Both Lavor Anil discrimination legislation to protect victims of aids. Defense Bush promises to press ahead with ski research and to deploy a space based Defenso shield when in is ready. Dukakis has ridiculed the program As a Talasy but would continue Basic research at is billion a year a Quarter of the current level. Dukakis says the military needs a conventional defense initiative to bolster readiness he would scrap two planned new Sib billion air Rall Carrier task forces and the Mobile my and Midge Man missiles but took for other ways to modernize the land based leg of the nuclear triad. Although Bush has hammered Al Dukakis Lor opposing the my and Page 16 the stars and stripes sunday october 30,1988