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...already well-off. Implicit in much of this opposition commentary, at least in the Administration's view, is the premise that any such attempt is inherently unfair because the poor have a right to federal help financed by taxes that fall most heavily on the middle-class and affluent...
...question, at least for politicians, is what role Government-federal and state-should play. It is the people who need protection the most, the poor and the young, who will be directly affected by what politicians decide about funding, parental consent or even an outright abortion ban. The more affluent and secure will always be able to get abortions when they want. And any ban will simply force many women who want to terminate their pregnancies to get illegal and unsafe operations, as happened before 1973. "A ban would only make abortion a humiliating and sordid experience," points...
...Kemp explained himself, taxation reduces hard work and serious effort, vigor and enterprise. He continues that subsidization encourages waste and frivolous spending, inefficiency and sloth. Current policy makers propose that reducing the tax burden on America's middle and industrial classes will spur greater work effort, and induce the affluent to save a greater part of their incomes. Supply-side theorists pin the country's exorbitant inflation and interest rates to the failure in recent years of businesses to invest in modern plants and equipment. Their unwillingness to proceed with technological innovations is further cautioned by excessive taxation and regulation...
...several classes. But many of the deepest reductions, such as those in food-stamp and other nutrition programs, health, welfare and job-training plans, do come at the expense of low-income groups. Liberal Democrats vehemently argue that the Reagan tax reductions will save far more money for the affluent than for the needy...
...more weeks." The legislature, in fact, is caught in a city-suburb battle. A year ago, the transit authority pleaded with Jefferson County legislators for a countywide half-cent sales tax, with proceeds estimated at $8 million a year. But some of the area's more affluent towns wanted no transit system and no transit...