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...ballot questions pass, Cambridge will be able to level-tax and level-fund its public services in the coming fiscal year, instead of being forced to make drastic (10%-25%) cuts in police, fire, schools, health, public works, human services, libraries, etc., as would be dictated by Proportion...
...Democrats, at least, were delighted. "We are fishing in the same waters," said Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, who three weeks ago proposed a somewhat more drastic freeze on federal spending. Added Congressman James Jones of Oklahoma, who heads the House Budget Committee: "Many of the elements are very close to what I've been saying have to be part of a compromise." Though White House aides found fault with the plan for its meager defense hikes and its politically explosive cuts in Social Security benefits, they were careful...
When the nation's Governors arrived in Washington last week for their annual winter meeting, they were far more concerned about the immediate implications of Ronald Reagan's red-ink budget and its drastic cuts in domestic spending than his heralded long-term plans for a New Federalism. But since the Governors had long complained about Washington's heavy hand on a multitude of federal aid programs for the states, they could scarcely ignore Reagan's potentially historic proposals. In something of an Administration victory, the Governors wound up spending most of their three days debating...
...talk to the Governors, he complained that Reagan had passed his tax and budget slashes in "a great rookie year" in 1981, mainly by maneuvering members of Congress into voting simply for or against the President. Vowed O'Neill: "This country will not make the same drastic mistake this year with New Federalism and the budget. The American people will know what's in them and how they add up." That, of course, was a partisan view. Yet on the New Federalism, O'Neill seemed in step with most of the Governors. They like the principle...
...hard-liners have been circulating a six-page platform that might have been written by Joseph Stalin himself. The document blasts the "revisionist" reform policies adopted after August 1980, when the Solidarity labor movement was launched, and calls socialist. a drastic purge of party moderates. While it cautions against a prompt easing of martial law restrictions or the release of some 4,000 political prisoners, the pamphlet criticizes the military regime for usurping the party's leadership role...