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...gets longer. What tends to come out is not something neat and streamlined but rather something resembling the Income Tax laws, which are wondrously complicated but do not represent a cogent system. The best way, and the most efficient, to gain the freedom to tailor academic programs, is to abolish concentrations completely...
...contract in part meets the OBU demand-issued during the Dec. 5 occupation of University Hall-that Harvard abolish the painters' helpers category and immediately promote the helpers to journeymen painters...
Colorado's Kempe would go much farther. He would totally abolish routine vaccination of children, and of all stay-at-home Americans except those engaged in health services that might bring them into contact with an accidentally imported case of the disease. He would, however, continue to vaccinate young men entering the armed forces and maintain the presently required vaccination for any traveler to areas where smallpox is still rife...
...medical care could be brought down if a powerful union?the American Medical Association?would permit less highly trained "paramedical" workers to perform simple functions like applying bandages and giving injections. Federal purchases could be more adroitly timed to take advantage of favorable prices. Government regulatory agencies might abolish minimum rates for freight shipments and other transportation, and permit competition to take over again. Oil-import quotas, which cost gasoline consumers at least $4 billion a year, could be revised or scrapped. Fair-trade laws, which place floors under the prices of some goods, might also be repealed. These...
...early as 1942, Friedman began advocating a negative income tax as a substitute for the nation's demeaning and generally ineffective welfare system. The Nixon Administration this year asked Congress to provide a minimum income for every American, though not quite in the way that he advocates. Friedman would abolish most other types of aid to the poor and substitute the income guarantee. It would provide direct cash grants that poverty-level families could spend any way they pleased. He argues that most current programs to help the poor either wind up aiding the better-off instead or place humiliating...