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Budget planners are talking up such recommendations as a new attempt to slash or eliminate federal operating subsidies for mass-transit systems, enact new restrictions on Government-subsidized student loans, consolidate and reduce many federal grants to localities, and perhaps abolish the Department of Education. But they are pointedly not discussing any further slashes in programs such as food stamps and welfare that make up the so-called social safety net. Vows one planner: "There will be virtually nothing in this budget that can be construed as an attack on the poor...
...Kennesaw, Georgia, requires the head of every household to possess a gun and ammunition. In fact, the town went so far as to "supply just about any sort of firearm" to those who couldn't buy them. It is a wonder that they did not enact mandatory target practice. This law represents not just a legal response to local gun control, but an armed response. It is as if the NRA is readying itself for battle. Literally...
...begin drawing it, but by then they are normally in a lower tax bracket. Home mortgage deductions amount to $25 billion annually, state and local taxes $22 billion, charitable contributions $13 billion. Many of these tax benefits are so widely accepted that a true flat tax seems impossible to enact. Even modifying any of the existing provisions is certain to stir resistance from those who would be hurt. For the individual taxpayer, notes retiring New York Congressman Barber Conable, "if the bottom line is that his taxes went up, that is not reform. That is fraud...
...vote marks the end of nine months of negotiations to enact Cambridge's first police review board although some groups have vowed to challenge the ordinance either through the courts or a citywide referendum in-next November's election...
...less satisfying, it is probably because pinpointing the limits of a First Amendment right is more difficult than pinpointing a chemical imbalance in the hypothalamus. Each episode of the series, created by former CBS News President Fred W. Friendly, brings on a panel of experts who enact roles in hypothetical cases dramatizing Executive privilege, freedom of the press, school prayer, the right to life and other constitutional issues. President Ford and advisers like retired General Brent Scowcroft argue that classified information on covert CIA activity in the mythical country of Sierra Madre must be kept secret from Congress...