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...Washington the reaction to Proposition 13 speeded the deep change in federal tax policy. For years, tax laws had focused on making the system more equitable by taking away deductions thought to favor the affluent. But at a TIME Tax Conference in September, Democrats Russell Long and Al Ullman, chairmen of the Senate and House tax-writing committees, proclaimed the era of loophole-closing reform to be over. From now on, they asserted, tax laws will be "economically oriented" packages of cuts designed to relieve the ravages of inflation and spur job-creating investment...
Most of the 6,500 registered guests were affluent, to say the least, and 75% of them came with their wives: prime targets for the jewel thieves who prowl the better hotels. Security had to be beefed up; in addition to the Hilton's regular complement of 70 guards, the A.T.A. provided 35 officers. The New York police department detached some plainclothesmen and mounted patrolmen to monitor the portals. This was something of a departure for the N.Y.P.D., but the convention after all was expected to unload $3 million a day on the city. Hilton Chief Barren Hilton himself...
While Main Street Ms. America pays $2 for simple moisturizers and cleansers, the more affluent are willing to drop $235 on the complete La Prairie line of five Swiss-made "miracle" creams and lotions that are sold at some department stores. The $70 Treatment Cream contains live cells from sheep placenta, ostensibly to retard aging. Probably the most successful of the full lines is Estée Lauder's Clinique, consisting of seven products concocted with the help of dermatologists and priced from $6.50 to $7.50 each. In many department stores, the Clinique counter resembles a laboratory, where...
Those mournful lyrics from the Rolling Stones' rock classic Gimme Shelter touched a generation of troubled youngsters in the late 1960s. Today the lines might serve as a lament for affluent investors who are watching some of their tax shelters being blown away. The winds of change are coming from the Internal Revenue Service and Congress, which greatly restricted tax avoidance schemes in the Tax Reform Act of 1976, and continued the attack in the latest law, which becomes fully effective...
...Edgar's whimsically chosen twofold device for waking up these affluent and effete somnambulists to the empty nature of their existence and the imminent prospect of mass extinction. Edgar's gun comes closest to smoking when he has the guest of honor, a Kissinger-like Secretary of State, trussed up in a chair and holds the weap on to the dignitary's head, while the pair reach a tongue-blistering stalemate on the accommodations of power vs. the demands of conscience. Two ideas have entered Doctorow's play on a double ladder of descent. Ennui, anomie...