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More generally, competitive business is hurt by high taxation, as are landlords and fixed income people. O'Connor suggests that eventually popular antipathy towards government spending programs and priorities can be organized politically, and will shift its emphasis away from drastic cuts in government spending and towards the reform of government spending priorities...
...from Committee Chairman Long, who is expected to push for a larger tax cut than the $16.3 billion approved by the House and may try to reduce the maximum 35% capital gams tax rate in the bill to 21%. The President has warned that if the changes are too drastic, or too much in favor of the rich, he will react with the ultimate weapon at his command: a veto...
Another threat is a U.S. recession, brought on either by inflation or by dollar-propping actions-primarily a sharp boost in interest rates-that will have to be more drastic the longer they are put off. Top administrative aides privately express concern that the U.S. may be faced with a combination of high inflation and serious recession by the time the 1980 election campaign starts gathering momentum...
Carter's most questionable foreign policy performance has been his handling of U.S.-Soviet relations. His early penchant for open diplomacy and dramatic gestures, like publicly calling for drastic cuts in the superpowers' nuclear arsenals, almost immediately threw Moscow off balance and probably slowed the pace of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). He remains an advocate of open diplomacy, but would be unlikely to make that kind of negotiating mistake with the Russians again...
Such measures may seem rather drastic retaliation for trials that the Soviets regard as quite within their rights. But the trials are only a symptom of a deterioration that has been going on almost from the day Carter took office-and even before. The wary cooperation between the superpowers, which was the keystone of the Nixon-Kissinger foreign policy and was widely labeled (somewhat to their dismay) detente, reached its peak with the balmy summit meetings of Nixon and Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev in 1972 and 1973. But detente was never a condition totally free of East-West...