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Nelson, Stenberg promise
issue-themed Senate race
By Brian Carlson
Staff writer
In Social Security, tax policy
and party philsophy, Nebraskans
will see clear differences this
fall between Senate candidates
Ben Nelson and Don Stenberg.
Nelson, the Democrat, and
Stenberg, the Republican, made
that clear during a joint appear
ance on Wednesday before a
Lincoln Board of Realtors
luncheon at the Hillcrest
Country Club in Lincoln.
Nelson, who served as gov
ernor from 1991-99, said he
wanted to join a group of “sensi
ble centrists” in the Senate who
work across party lines.
Nebraskans, he said, want “less
partisanship, more partnership.”
“There is only one team I
want to suit up for, and that’s
team Nebraska,” he said.
Stenberg, the state attorney
general, sought to associate
himself with Republican presi
dential nominee George W.
Bush and Sen. Chuck Hagel,
^ There is only one team I want to
suit up for, and thats team
Nebraska”
Ben Nelson
Democratic Senate candidate
while lumping Nelson together
with the man at the top of the
Democratic ticket, Vice
President A1 Gore. Several
times, he contrasted the “Bush
Hagel-Stenberg team” with the
“Gore-Nelson team.”
Republicans enjoy a sizable
lead in registered voters in
Nebraska, and every Republican
presidential candidate after
1964 has won the state. By bran
dishing his conservative creden
tials, Stenberg hopes to carry
strong Republican support to
victory in November.
On several issues, the candi
dates displayed stark differ
ences.
Stenberg supports reforming
Social Security to allow younger
workers to invest a portion of
their payroll taxes in private
investments.
Private investments would
yield a much higher return than
todays average annual return of
2 percent for Social Security
funds, Stenberg said.
“I trust the American people
to make those investment deci
sions,” he said. “I don’t think we
should condemn a future gener
ation of Americans to a 2 percent
return on their Social Security
taxes.”
Nelson opposes partial pri
vatization of Social Security.
He said the government
should place the Social Security
trust fund in a “lockbox ,” using
the funds only for Social
Security benefits. Then the gov
ernment should use budget sur
plus funds to extend Social
Security’s solvency beyond
2037, the date at which payroll
taxes would no longer fiind all
the promised benefits, he said.
“The issue is, when you take
money out of Social Security,
what happens?” Nelson said. “It
brings the day of reckoning on
Social Security’s insolvency just
that much closer to you.”
Nelson said he wanted to use
projected budget surpluses to
pay down die national debt, pre
serve Social Security and pro
vide a tax cut.
Menoerg supports a larger
tax cut than Nelson, saying the
government still would have
large enough budget surpluses
to protect Social Security and
Medicare while increasing
defense spending.
On farm policy, Nelson said
the 1996 market-based reforms
contained in the Freedom to
Farm Act were “clearly not
working.” He said he would
“overhaul” the act.
Stenberg said he would
amend the Freedom to Farm Act
by providing price insurance to
farmers when commodity prices
take a dive, as prices have in the
past couple of years.
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