On the positive side, they have supported higher consumption in the private sector.
That idea, Annenberg researchers concluded, is based on a commercial for Mr. Bush in which an announcer said, "Kerry supported higher taxes over 350 times".
Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher prices.
In a long Washington career, he has supported higher energy taxes and higher energy prices, more regulation and more central controls.
If they demanded state funding for candidates, or supported higher salaries for MPs, then the polls show the public would be furious.
He said that 66 percent of the group's members supported higher speed limits; many believed it would merely legitimize a situation that already exists.
In a bid to spur domestic consumption, the Chinese government has also supported higher pay for factory workers, raising minimum wages across the country previously.
In his most recent one-minute radio advertisement, a narrator dismisses Mr. Lazio as a "liberal" who supported higher taxes and federal spending while in Congress.
The two new programs follow a pattern in the Gulf states, which have, since 2006, supported higher education to further their goal of strengthening their local economies.
During the two-week campaign, he criticized Mr. Kan for being under the thumb of elite Finance Ministry bureaucrats, who have traditionally supported higher taxes and lower deficits.
Until after World War II, the regents supported higher education by dispensing state scholarship funds and working closely with private colleges to establish educational policy.
