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...notes, is that the graduated income tax does not significantly redistribute wealth. That is partly because taxpayers in the highest brackets have much greater opportunity to use legal write-offs than those with very low incomes. Moreover, the 5.85% Social Security payroll tax takes a much bigger proportional bite out of the salary of a worker earning $5,000 than from one earning more than $17,000. Ever larger sales taxes are also more burdensome for the poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INCOMES: An Unchanging Gap | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

Mike's drinking escapades didn't always turn out as congenially. One night Louis's Pizza became embroiled in an argument whether Dick Butkus would really bite his mother if she were trying to score from the one. Mike was an adamant Butkus fan and assured this disbeliever that Butkus most assuredly would bite dear old Mom or anyone else who tried to score. He used hand gestures to emphasize the point. Unfortunately, he was holding a chair at the time...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 1/25/1974 | See Source »

...dogs was Rocking Ship, winner of 53 races out of the 86 he ran. His lifetime earnings approached $100,000 (the average purse is $1,000), and like the great thoroughbreds, Rocking Ship would have been sent to stud farm if he had not been killed, apparently by snake bite, last fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Night at the Dogs | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

...length and breadth and height of you total up to quite a view, but to taste the true delight of you, I'd like to take A BITE...

Author: By Arthur H. Lubow, | Title: Oh, Lampoon | 12/19/1973 | See Source »

Turner assumes command at a time of skepticism about McDonald's chances for continuing its phenomenal growth. The price of the stock has fallen from 76% in late February to 44)4 recently, because of fears that driving curbs will bite deeply into the chain's business. Turner, however, notes that McDonald's has lately been building more restaurants in "walking" neighborhoods, especially in cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Big Burger Boss | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

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