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- <title>
- Sep. 03, 1990: The Gift That Keeps On Giving
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 03, 1990 Are We Ready For This?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 21
- The Gift That Keeps on Giving
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- <body>
- <p>By Paul Gray//Reported by David E. Thigpen
- </p>
- <p> The Republican presidential task force, a fund-raising arm
- of the G.O.P., has been sending out $25 checks to nearly
- 700,000 Americans. All the recipients have to do is endorse
- them and deposit them in their banks. However, there is a tiny
- little catch, as an accompanying letter explains. The deposited
- check gives the task force the right to withdraw $12.50 a month
- from the individual's account for what it calls candidate
- escrow funding. Lucky recipients of the checks are allowed to
- exit the program after two payments have been extracted--there goes the $25--but they are encouraged to remain
- participants and painlessly, perhaps endlessly, go on
- contributing $12.50 a month to the G.O.P.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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