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...does Congress treat the dairy support system like a sacred cow? The main reason is the strong dairy lobby: the Associated Milk Producers PAC was the tenth-largest campaign contributor to Congressmen in 1984. Yet, despite this clout, most dairy farmers realize that some reforms are inevitable. "We want to be less dependent on subsidies," says James Jarvis, a small dairy farmer in Wautoma, Wis. "But we can't be cut off cold turkey. We've got to be let down slow...
...city's social progressive coalition rent control is the sacred cow, the cornerstone of their platform. Councilors like Sullivan are vehemently opposed to any changes which would weaken the current to any changes which would weaken the current policy. Sullivan resists the notion that rent control should benefit only lower and moderate income groups, saying it should protect everyone from the inflated rates that would otherwise be caused by Cambridge's excessive housing demand...
...Social Security. This would save $38 billion next year by eliminating cost of living increases and halting the natural growth of programs. From the vantage point of special interests, a freeze at least preserves programs instead of letting them become targets for extinction. As for fencing in the sacred cow of Social Security, the G.O.P. Senators think the public is ready for a show of fiscal backbone by their representatives. Says Senate Republican Whip Alan Simpson of Wyoming: "There is a greater risk for a politician in 1986 to say 'I couldn't do anything about the deficit' than...
...clause in the charter of the Boylston Professorship gives Heaney "the right to pasture a cow in the Cambridge Common," said Alfred. "But I think Seamus would be arrested if he tried...
...likely to cure the nation of its deficit ills--a slowdown in military spending and increased taxes--are the the remedies the President is least willing to prescribe. When Administration spokesmen said that in the current budget everyone's ox would get gored, they omitted to mention the sacred cow defense, now tentatively pencilled in for a $42 billion spending increase...