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...suit and not even a topcoat, despite the severity of the Granite State winter, was an athletic looking gentleman named Paul Fisher who told people he was a ball-point pen manufacturer from Chicago and was seeking the Democratic nomination for President. Fisher's platform, he said, was simple: abolish the income tax. 'That's nice', was the general reaction and most people immediately got the impression that Fisher was playing with half a deck...
Ronald Reagan had decided that it was time to switch from conservative generalities to a more specific blueprint for drastically reducing Big Government. And so, after three weeks of slapdash staff work, he proposed on Sept. 26 "a single bold stroke" that would abolish the federal role in welfare, education, Medicaid, air-traffic control, postal subsidies and some other services...
...rabbit punch. Postmaster General Benjamin Bailar says if it is to survive what he calls "a financial crisis of serious proportions," the USPS may have to end Saturday mail delivery, eliminate special delivery service, and slow down delivery. Congress, ever eager for false solutions, seems more inclined to abolish the corporation and return to the old politically-controlled Post Office Department, forgetting that the good old days weren't much better. After all, Congress set up the corporation in 1970 only because of public dissatisfaction with costly, inefficient mail service...
Convinced that some federal regulatory agencies have become champions of monopoly, Harris wants to abolish many of them. Where it proved necessary, he would support outright government ownership of private industry. He would provide more steeply graduated individual and corporate income taxes to get "the rich off welfare" and "the big hogs out of the trough...