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...billion tax cut, TO KILL a $7.3 billion tax cut, and TO KILL a 10-per-cent individual tax cut. "This message is brought to you by Defeat Durkin because you should have the facts when you select your next U.S. Senator," voters are informed; on a coupon, the leaflet adds, "I agree that John Durkin's two-faced record must be exposed," with room for a check mark...
...best thing about One for the Road may be that-flaws and all-it is even better to watch than listen to. Hi-fi meets scifi. Kink crazies can snap up a record, then clip the coupon that comes with it and send off for a video tape that shows the lads in full...
Fearful that inflation will continue and prices will keep falling, many once traditional bond buyers are investing elsewhere. Pension funds and insurance companies are putting more of their millions in the stock market; retirees, widows and other coupon clippers are switching into the safer and high-yielding money market funds, which pay about...
Unlike rationing by coupon, the 50-50 plan allows individuals to make their own choices. Coupon rationing would require a sizeable bureaucracy. Furthermore, such a system would force the government to reach difficult decisions. How will the government determine how many coupons each individual should receive? Even with a "white market" for sale of unwanted coupons, to increase efficiency, the government invites speculation and inequity. Rationing coupons constitute an interference of the free market and an invasion of free choice which invites inefficiency...
...proposal, aims to put driving in its current perspective--a luxury. The accompanying tax cut, however, assures that those needing extra income for necessary road travel will receive it. And unlike coupon rationing, the 50-50 plan would not greatly infringe on efficiency or require a huge bureaucracy...