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Hard Times and CTOC discount the tax argument further by advocating the abolition of the property tax and the institution of a steeply graduated income tax in its place. It is extremely unlikely that the Council will follow their advice.
Rep. William McCulloch, of Ohio, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, gave Dean his first Government job as minority counsel for the committee. After two years, Dean became associate director of the National Commission on Reform of Criminal Laws, a panel to advise Congress and the President. Now...
ON THE DIVISION OF THE WORLD INTO POWER BLOCS: Economic blocs will be with us for some time. But the military blocs, which came into being during conditions of tension, are now an anachronism and an impediment to the development of relations between states. These relations are on the path...
ON THE UNITED NATIONS: The abolition of military blocs should lead to a growing role for the United Nations. Relations among states must be established on a new basis that respects the principles of the U.N. Charter: the right to independence and sovereignty of every state, the right to choose...
Just a Start. Within 30 minutes of his swearing-in ceremony, Whitlam set the whirlwind tone for a new, independent-minded Australia by announcing the abolition of the military draft, introduced in 1964 to supply Australian troops for the war in Viet Nam. That was just a start. In foreign...