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...students added that the foundation's advisory board should include student representatives in order to enact effectively the program it does undertake...
...Pepper could wave "a legislative wand," he says he would "enact a Medicare bill under which the entire cost would be borne by the Government instead of just the 45% now." He would provide home health care, claiming that it would often save the Government the higher cost of putting people who need not be there in hospitals. And he would provide more preventive health coverage, in hopes of checking illness and prolonging life. Overall, Pepper is optimistic, even without his wand, because he feels that pressure is growing on the Administration to stop cutting social programs. "The Reagan...
Upon learning of such things at a distance, most men feel not only revulsion, but also a proper urge to enact society's revenge. Lock the bums away forever. At the same time, they can still imagine what it feels like to be present at the atrocities, even for the briefest instance; every life has analogues of its own. The essential circumstance is that of the mob, always a terrifying entity, whatever its goal. One thinks of lynch mobs before rape mobs, but all mobs have the same appearances and patterns, the same compulsion to tear things down...
Economic recovery and the compounded effect of tax increases and spending cuts would whittle the deficit to $148 billion in fiscal 1986, $142 billion in 1987 and $117 billion in 1988. These projections assume that Congress will enact standby increases in oil and income taxes that would go into effect on Oct. 1, 1985, under three conditions: that the legislators first pass all of Reagan's spending reductions; that the deficit still seems likely to exceed 2.5% of gross national product, or $100 billion a year; and that the economy is not in a recession...
Reagan was expected to leave himself another out: the tax boosts would take effect only if Congress in the next two years fails to enact a tax simplification plan. The President intends to pledge that he will study and eventually submit a proposal that would trade wholesale repeal of exemptions and deductions for a lower and narrower range of income tax rates than the present 14% to 50%. That would be a variation of the flat-tax idea that many reformers, both conservative and liberal, urge on grounds of both simplicity and equity (since everyone with approximately the same income...