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...item would be a major provider of new revenue for the Federal Government, but it could also turn President Reagan's tax-reform plan into a tax increase for millions of upper-income Americans in high-tax states. The other would bring in only peanuts, relatively speaking, but it could radically change the life-styles of businessmen, professionals and their clients throughout the nation. Together, the proposals to eliminate the deductions of state and local taxes and to restrict severely those for business entertainment have emerged as two of the most controversial parts of the President's tax package. Both...
...political terms, the tax reform drive is seen by Republicans as an opportunity to win over young voters and bring a lasting realignment of the parties. But more than that, the tax plan is Reagan's attempt to put his & indelible stamp on domestic policy. It is the culmination of practically every fight he has carried out in his political career: against high and progressive tax rates, ever expanding governmental powers, limitations on free enterprise, and unfair burdens on the American family. A firm believer in the worth of his own crusades, Ronald Reagan has joined a battle that excites...
...owns a business in Peoria, Ill. "What I resent is that all of us who operate honestly and ethically get indicted in the broad sweep." Both businessmen and consumers are asking why the new outbreak of lawlessness is occurring, and the Reagan Administration is stepping up efforts to bring it under control. Says Stanton Wheeler, director of Yale University's studies on white-collar crime: "People are increasingly realizing that the whole economic system operates on the basis of trust. When that trust is repeatedly violated, the system itself begins to be in doubt...
Business crime is at least as old as horse trading, of course, and has periodically flared up in new forms. Shady stock deals helped bring on the great Wall Street Crash of 1929, and Lockheed and ITT became enmeshed in bribery scandals during the 1970s. But rarely have so many big-name businessmen and corporations been accused of so much wrongdoing in so short a time. Several business trends, including financial deregulation, the growth of huge conglomerates and the rise of electronic funds transfers, seem to be multiplying the opportunities and temptations for businessmen to stray outside...
...guaranteeing that such a horror will never take place again. Not that rational activity is unwelcome after watching tapes of the boys from Liverpool publicly assaulting -- and killing -- the boys from Turin because the Italians were rooting for the wrong team. How does the mind begin to understand this? Bring out Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power and learn that mobs love destroying things, that "in the crowd the individual feels a . . . sense of relief, for the distances are removed which used to throw him back on himself and shut...