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...with both the Great Society and the Viet Nam escalation, without requesting an increase in taxes. Between 1965 and 1968, federal spending jumped 47%, and the Government put much more money into the economy than it took out. Johnson feared that if he asked for higher taxes, Congress would balk at paying for what some economists now call the "marriage of the warfare and the welfare states." When Johnson belatedly asked for a tax increase in 1967, Congress dallied for ten months before enacting it. By the time the sur charge took effect a year ago, the fed eral deficit...
COCK-A-DOODLE DANDY is a Sean O'Casey play that has rarely been staged during the 20 years since it was written. Accustomed as they are to the theater of the absurd, today's theatergoers are less likely than the audiences of the '50s to balk at the play's zany unconcern with sequiturs, probabilities or dramatic p's and g's. The very talented players of the APA Repertory Company make this blast at what O'Casey felt was wrong with Ireland into a rollicking, rambunctious piece of theater...
...have to be handed out monthly or weekly, a big chore that would cause rather substantial changes in the IRS bureaucracy. The negative income tax would have a further practical drawback. Middle-income workers would not benefit at all, as they would with family allowances, and they would undoubtedly balk at paying taxes to subsidize people who earn only a few hundred dollars less than they themselves make. However, the objections, big as they are, diminish when they are placed next to the welfare monstrosity that now exists...
...consumers only about 15% in rents because of high operating costs, spiraling land prices, local realty taxes and interest charges. Still, that is a goal worth reaching. The biggest problem is getting well-known new methods used. Despite their cooperative attitude in Chicago, labor unions are widely expected to balk when today's modular programs grow larger. And some black militants already complain that instant houses are mere "crackerboxes...
...have sometimes overstated a yes answer. Dictatorships often force people to vote for handpicked candidates and then proudly proclaim that participation hit 95% or more. By contrast, the U.S. right to vote carries with it a right not to vote, to register a negative protest, and most Americans would balk at hav ing it any other way. Even so, they sometimes forget that people the world over have often died fighting for even the crudest kind of franchise. Well aware of that struggle, some democracies impose fines on nonvoters...