Word: enacted
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Partly it's because different people want an income subsidy for different reasons; partly because they want very different kinds of subsidies. Friedman and the conservatives would like to enact a subsidy as an excuse for axing other welfare programs; while Galbraith and the liberals believe that the poor deserve a greater share of the nation's wealth, and want the government to step in and offset the effects of unequal opportunities...
...Instead, the price tag jumped to $20 billion, then to its current $30 billion. "Our country is overcommitted at home and abroad," warned Robert Roosa in 1966, not long after he resigned as Treasury Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs. Even that year, Johnson might well have persuaded Congress to enact more taxes. Instead, the Administration devised packages of restrictions limiting the uses to which American citizens could put their dollars abroad. First came a tightening of President Kennedy's "voluntary" restraints against bank lending and corporate investment; finally, last January, came outright controls on capital and a controversial plan...
...into reality. In fact, one White House aide said that Johnson planned no new programs as a result of the report. "We've gone about as far as we could possibly go," he said. "Anything more and we wouldn't have a prayer of getting Congress to enact the surtax." Yet there are times when the President must galvanize a nation's conscience and will -and this is clearly one of them...
...years past, Lyndon Johnson's presidential messages called on Congress to enact a plethora of broad, even visionary, programs. Times have changed. Beset by foreign crises and committed to holding down spending at home, the President last week sent three domestic programs to Capitol Hill spelling out segments of his State of the Union speech. The President's oratory was as resonant as ever, but it masked an anemia of fresh ideas...
...swinging too far either way--toward a totally new custodial relationship or toward a complete break in relations--there are intermediate positions that can be taken now to help solve the crisis. The most important would be to respect the authority of the new Student-Faculty Advisory Committee and enact any of its recommendations to bar recruiters...