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When asked their stand on taxes, all too many presidential candidates have refused to say much more than that they ought to go down. Not some of this year's Democratic hopefuls. Edmund Muskie, George McGovern and Hubert Humphrey have either proposed or endorsed surprisingly detailed tax reforms that would cancel many benefits now enjoyed by U.S. companies, sew up loopholes used by the rich, and probably increase the tax bill of almost everyone with an income above $12,500. The Democrats are making tax reform a big, sharp campaign issue...
...past year and that has raised prices to consumers. Three political committees of dairy co-ops have given more than $400,000 to Republican Party or Nixon re-election committees over the past year. In 1970, dairymen also gave $5,000 to Hubert Humphrey and $1,666 to Edmund Muskie. Despite the striking difference in contributions, both Senators joined in supporting bills that would have forced an increase in support prices had Hardin not granted...
...Boost. Edmund Muskie is going into Wisconsin with a psychological boost. Disappointed in New Hampshire and badly embarrassed in Florida, where Hubert Humphrey emerged a strong second behind George Wallace, Muskie captured 63% of the vote in a preferential poll against Eugene McCarthy last week in Illinois. Beating McCarthy was not exactly a triumph; Clean Gene was not taken seriously as a presidential contender, although he did campaign industriously. McCarthy's vote in part represented an informal coalition of "stop Muskie" voters, including supporters of Humphrey, George McGovern, John Lindsay and even Edward Kennedy, who has a hardcore following...
Martha Griffiths, who shepherded the amendment to House approval last year, borrowed Edmund Muskie's desk and kept a tally on the voting...
Nader is not beyond reproach by any means. A 1970 attack by his Raiders (task forces of college students) on the integrity of Senator Edmund S. Muskie because an air-pollution bill fell short of their idealistic standards, was puerile and misdirected. A subsequent study of New York's First National City Bank exhibited remarkable naivete about economic and financial complexities. Nader's often unbridled hyperbole is cause for legitimate rebuke. He once described the hot dog as the most dangerous unguided missile...