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...contemporary Peg Riley (in William Bendix's The Life of Riley, 1953-58) stayed home too, despite the constant money worries stemming from Riley's modest wage as a riveter. And the handful of working women in '50s TV were mostly man-hungry spinsters like Eve Arden's schoolteacher in Our Miss Brooks (1952-56) and Ann B. Davis' jill-of-all-trades Schultzy in the Bob Cummings Show...
Their lunch, with the usual guests, ordinarily costs $100, including tip Who pays for this lunch? Once a week Arden says. "I'll get the bill." Once a week Jo says, "I'll pick up the tab, it's on me." But who actually pays for their lunch? Arden's real estate firm? Jo's bank? The prospective buyer or hefty depositor...
...Arden greet each other with smiles, order lunch from the clean, bright mean, chat about high interest rates on mortgages, blame the federal deficit and government spending in the red talk about the last and upcoming weekend, eat, and depart with a pleasant handshake saying "thank...
...because it increases not only the recipient's life style but also income. This reported income taxed, could help the President balance the budget. That could hold down government borrowing to make up for the deficit, which could lower the interest rate to taken down each time Jo buys Arden's lunch Even if it causes some additional paperwork, any cost benefit analysis would support such a reasonable tax policy...
...Arden and Jo might think twice about trading lunches at company expense if it will show up on their taxable income. But it would be fair beneficial to reducing the federal deficit, and helpful to the administration in getting the government out of the free lunch business and on to the economic recovery of our nation, and its real concern of encouraging capital goods, formation. When Jo's bank doesn't pay out as touch of its money for free lunches to its agents or wealthy depositors, it will have more cash to loan businesses and individuals the money...