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...sales tax. When these taxes upon taxes are compounded, they amount to a markup of 85% for the state. Not surprisingly, Pennsylvanians try to purchase much of their liquor in neighboring states like Maryland, where a half-gallon oi whisky sells for about one-third less Pennsylvania officials complain that out-of-state purchases cost the Pennsylvania treasury some $25 million a year in lost revenues, but the hefty profit ($151 million last year) that the Liquor Contro" Board turns eases the pain...
Business leaders also complain that for social and political reasons it has become too difficult to fire redundant workers. One result is that companies with diminishing production cannot cut their costs; their profits fall, and they must borrow money, not to invest in new techniques and equipment but merely to keep the factories turning. "If a small-or medium-size enterprise runs into temporary cash problems," says De Bodinat, "chances are it will go bankrupt. But a big, dying industry can generally count on government subsidies. This is the opposite of survival of the fittest. It is maintaining dinosaurs while...
Automen do not fault Claybrook's intelligence, but they complain that her agency shoots from the hip and uses the media to publicize charges that are not retracted with the same fanfare when proved incorrect. They criticize NHTSA for yielding to pressure groups, for failing to measure costs against benefits, and for lacking enough competent staffers. Undaunted, Claybrook aims next to get the automakers to improve seat belts and to scrap their spearlike hood ornaments, which she considers dangerous...
...Agriculture Department, Foreman argues, used to cater solely to the interests of food processors and big farmers, and her goal is to make it "the people's department" that Abraham Lincoln had envisioned. The processors and many farmers complain that she is hurting agriculture, in part because she is calling for severe restrictions on food additives and for more detailed product labeling. Nebraska Republican Congresswoman Virginia Smith, expressing a view common in the farm belt, protested: "Carol Tucker Foreman, one of agriculture's biggest enemies, is at work right now discrediting the meat industry and causing the public to lose...
...Kaplan explains his incredible business growth. "People kept telling me that there was a gold mine out there, but I resisted expanding because I was afraid that I couldn't maintain the quality associated with my name." Finally, high school guidance counselors across the country started calling Kaplan to complain that he was not being fair to students outside New York...