Here then, the exclusive laundry list, proposed by President Clinton in his State of the Union Address, compiled by Matthew Berry, Staff Attorney at the Institute for Justice, and Peter Cleary, Communications Manager of Americans for Tax Reform:

1. Prescription drugs for the elderly
2. Long-term care
3. More teachers
4. Summer school programs
5. After-school programs
6. The turnaround failing schools program
7. College scholarships for inner-city. Rural, and Indian community teachers
8. Build/modernize 5,000 schools
9. Public hospital care for indigents
10. Adult literacy
11. Welfare -to-work partnership
12. Community development banks
13. 100,000 new vouchers for affordable housing
14. New U.S. private investment companies
15. Farm income assistance
16. Long-term computing research
17. Export assistance
18. Resources to implement Wye Agreement (money for Israel, Palestinian and Jordan)
19. Money to reduce nuclear threat from Russia
20. Military spending
21. UN dues/debts
22. Radio Democracy in Africa
23. Relief for hurricane victims in Central America and Caribbean
24. 50,000 policeman
25. Equipment for 50,000 policeman
26. Drug testing/treatment for prisoners an those on parole
27. Clean Air Fund to reduce greenhouse emissions
28. $1 billion livability agenda
29. $1 billion lands legacy initiative
30. Americorps
31. Citizenship preparations
32. $1 increase in the minimum wage over two years
33. Set aside 15 percent of all future budget surplus for Medicare
34. Set aside over 60 percent of all future budget surplus for Social Security
35. Have government, not individuals, invest social Security money
36. Set aside 11 percent of all future budget surplus for universal savings accounts
37. Total plans for all future budget surplus preclude significant tax reduction.
38. Federal tobacco lawsuit
39. Internet access for schools.
40. Reinstate five-day waiting period for purchasing a gun.
41. Patients Bill of Rights
42. Conference on mental illness
43. Year 2000 problem

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The Washington Times