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DIED. Carleton King, 73, New York Congressman who represented fashionable Saratoga Springs (1960-74); following surgery; in Bradenton, Fla. A conservative from a district he described as "died-in-the-wool Republican," he called for an across-the-board income tax of at least 25% and endorsed phone tapping in the interests of national security. "I think it's high time some people were watched," he once said in response to criticism of J. Edgar Hoover...
...March by roughly 25%. The top White House salary was increased from $44,600 to $56,000, but Carter escaped major criticism by pointing out that the raise was $1,500 less than the maximum authorized by Congress. While the latest raises also had congressional approval, their across-the-board nature hardly re-establishes the President's image as a careful minder of the Government till. In any event, one former aide had an explanation for the pay boost: "People realize that they will take a drastic pay cut if they lose their jobs. What it adds...
...council's main goals, according to Keniston, is to "stimulate debate" about public policy. With the across-the-board reforms it advocates-all "consistent with the classic liberal view," Keniston concedes-All Our Children will no doubt spark controversy. While the council's shift of emphasis from the effects of the family's psychological structure to the impact of society on children is a constructive approach, the suggested solutions seem simplistic. All too often, the power of federal mandate seems to be invoked by the council as a magic cureall; wave the wand of legislation, they imply...
...month. But advance information that capital gains will be taxed as ordinary income has already aroused stiff opposition among businessmen. Scenting an issue, House Minority Leader John Rhodes thundered: "Poor economic policies have created a bad case of the jitters among the American people." Rhodes called for an across-the-board tax cut to prevent another recession. Al Ullman, Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, made the same plea. For most members of Congress as well as the public, tax reform means a tax cut-period. That is not what it means to Carter...
...legislature all seek to balance the budget. They cannot get together on how to do it. Thomson, who was re-elected last year on a no-new-taxes promise, has repeatedly refused to consider any significant tax increase. The house at first agreed and approved a budget with across-the-board spending cuts, no new taxes needed. The senate killed it. Then the house passed a budget that would avoid the cuts by raising new taxes, one of them a lO?-per-gal. soft-drink tax. The senate scuttled that one too. No matter. Thomson announced that he would veto...