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...addition to the damage inflicted on Tabas, Iranian officials said yesterday the earthquake destroyed at least 80 per cent of the town of Firdaus, about 100 miles east of Tabas. The officials could not estimate the death toll in Firdaus...
...newspaper ads supporting incumbent Republican Governor Francis Sargent against his ADA-endorsed Democratic opponent, Michael Dukakis. The ads basically pointed out that Sargent was a good liberal who supported social welfare programs for the poor, and that a bird in the hand, etc... Dukakis won anyway, 65 per cent to 35 per cent. And the worst nightmares of the liberals have come true...
Under Dukakis, real incomes for welfare recipients have fallen 18 per cent; for the disabled, real incomes have dropped 20 per cent. Dukakis cut general relief completely in 1975. As State Rep. Barney Frank points out, Dukakis balanced the Massachusetts budget by lowering the real incomes of poor people...
...vote the panel defeated the effort to lock Congress into individual tax cuts averaging about 33 per cent over three years...
...family of four whose income is worth $20,000 at today's levels has seen its effective federal income-tax rate rise from 12.4 per cent in 1968 to 16.2 per cent today, Roth said. And by 1983, if current trends continue and the family continues to receive pay increases to match inflation, the tax bite will climb to 20.2 per cent, he added...