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THE 2% SOLUTION: FIXING AMERICA'S PROBLEMS IN WAYS LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES CAN LOVE. BY MATTHEW MILLER * PUBLIC AFFAIRS * 320 PAGES * $26.00
MATTHEW MILLER IS A SERIOUS, WELL-read man of genuinely public-minded impulses. A veteran of Bill Clinton's budget office, he writes an often-liberal syndicated column and co-hosts a nationally syndicated public-radio program called "Left, Right & Center." Now he has written a book around the appealing idea that for just 2 percent of our national income (currently about $220 billion), we can give everyone a living wage, good health insurance and decent schools, plus get big money out of politics.
Miller is scandalized that millions of American kids go to bad schools, that tens of millions of American families lack health insurance and that hard-working breadwinners earn poverty wages. To him it is just common sense that each side should give a little and embrace his intelligent ideas. He does deserve credit for calling for more public spending.
Miller calls this agenda "radical centrism." What stands in its way, he argues, is partisan deadlock, in which both parties are about...
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