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Instead, we hope to show that a majority (or more) of students want the option of supporting a PIRG by a dues checkoff of $3 on their term bill. Checkoff implies a choice: that choice would appear automatically, and those students who do not wish to contribute would not their term bill accordingly, and receive a reduction or rebate of $3. (The administrative costs of collection would be paid for with a small percentage of the dues...
...seven Stevens plants in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., but 2½ years later ACTWU officials still have not been able to get the company to sign a contract. Stevens accuses the union of making "impossible" demands. ACTWU officers reply that Stevens adamantly refuses to accept arbitration of grievances or a checkoff system for dues collections, and that without those provisions the union cannot function...
...toward public financing with a provision that enabled taxpayers to earmark $1 (or $2 on joint returns) on income tax forms for the party of their choice. But President Nixon gutted the provision by giving it little publicity and requiring taxpayers to fill out a separate tax form. The checkoff had the potential of raising $113 million; it raised $4 million...
Senate experts figure that the total cost of election subsidies would be $358 million over a four-year period, or $89 million a year. Some of the funds could come from the tax checkoff; now that it is being adequately publicized and is easier to use (it appears on the first page of form 1040), the checkoff could produce up to $96 million by 1976-more than enough to cover the presidential primaries and general elections. Any shortfall could be made up from general revenues...
...Senate Rules Committee last month approved a bill to ban all private contributions to candidates receiving public financing in a general election. The bill would provide about $24 million from federal income tax return checkoff revenues for the campaign of each major party's presidential candidate in 1976. The full Senate will probably debate the bill later this month, while the House may accept a plan to use checkoff money to match private gifts to presidential campaigns...