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...prime rule in Matusow's anticomputer campaign is to "always let the enemies know that you are at war with them." He suggests that recipients of a computerized bill destroy the returnable portion, then mail back a check together with a note explaining what they have done and why. When paying utility bills, Matusow advises doing it promptly-but overpaying or underpaying by a penny or two. The effect, he says, is to send an unsophisticated computer into a state of hysteria...
...Dramatist Alun Owen, best known in the States as scenarist of the Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night. His males of the species are Paul Scofield, Michael Caine and Sean Connery-each, in his own way, a predator starring in his own segment of the triple bill. Their prey, and the source of the drama's continuity, is Anna Calder-Marshall, an actress formidable enough at 21 to hold the stage opposite such intimidating costars. Sir Laurence Olivier is the narrator-host, providing bridges between the parts of Owen's "modern morality fable...
EVER since the U.S. adopted income taxes in 1913, federal tax legislation has been marked by two main but contradictory trends: periodic rises in tax rates and, at the same time, increasing tax exceptions for certain industries, organizations and individuals. The tax-reform bill adopted last month by the House of Representatives moves in quite the opposite direction, and those who stand to lose by it-among them Wall Street corporations, the oil industry, and universities and hospitals-have been deluging Washington with complaints. Last week, as the Senate Finance Committee began considering the measure, the Nixon Administration presented...
Bias Against Investment. The Administration's aim, Secretary Kennedy explained to a mostly hostile committee, is to counter the House bill's "bias against investment in favor of consumption." That favoritism, he complained, "could impede economic growth by curtailing the incentive to make productive investments." Accordingly, said Kennedy, Congress should cut taxes on individuals by only $4.8 billion a year instead of $7.3 billion, and the total corporate tax intake should rise by only $3.5 billion instead of $4.9 billion. "We simply do not know enough about the future to commit ourselves" to any larger tax cuts...
...part of its benefits for middle-income individuals, the House bill would reduce basic income tax rates enough to grant $2.4 billion of relief after ten years and allow taxpayers who do not itemize deductions to take a standard maximum deduction of $2,000, or 15% of their income. They are now allowed only 10%, or $1,000. To allow the higher deduction, Kennedy said, would give an undesirable "double benefit" to middle-income taxpayers. To avoid that, he would raise the standard maximum deduction only to 12%, or $1,400. As for taxpayers near the poverty line, Kennedy proposed...