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Fundamentally, the problem is that the reductions in spending programs that Reagan has pushed through Congress so far have come nowhere near offsetting the income tax cuts that he got the legislators to enact in 1981. That is true even though most of the major reductions that can be hacked out of so-called nondefense discretionary programs, in which Congress decides every year how much to appropriate, have already been made...
...reality but refusing to believe that it will be safe. Dr. John G. Hermos, co-chairman of the NOMATEP coalition, said recently. Hermos added that his group will mount a new campaign of monitoring pollution levels in amassing related data in hopes of pressuring state authorities to enact new restrictions on the plant...
...danger is that Congress and the Administration will do none of the above. Instead, they are all too likely to let the system drift closer to the point at which the money runs out, then enact a series of emergency proposals-and trust to luck...
Even after Roosevelt's landslide victory, Congress was reluctant to enact a plan that seemed far too radical to some members. Roosevelt repeatedly warned congressional leaders that if they did not approve a moderate Social Security bill, popular pressure would force them to adopt irresponsible Government handout schemes like the ones being pushed by California's Dr. Francis Townsend and Louisiana Governor Huey Long. To soothe conservative qualms, Roosevelt demanded that his planners draft a scheme that was not "the same old dole." That ruled out any use of general revenues, meaning primarily income taxes, to finance...
...President look cynical. Others insisted Ronald Reagan had to reassure conservative voters that he remains committed to a balanced budget, even though he is proposing the biggest deficits in history. In his speech to the nation last week, Reagan chose the reassurance route. He called on Congress to enact a constitutional amendment requiring balanced budgets as the only method by which "we can stop the Government's squandering, overtaxing ways...