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...federal books. One is the National Firearms Act of 1934, taxing interstate shipments of such gangster-style weapons as machine guns and sawed-off shotguns. The other is the pallid Federal Firearms Act of 1938, prohibiting interstate gun shipments to felons. In 30 years, Congress has failed to enact a single new gun bill, thus allowing, as the President declared, "the demented, the deranged, the hardened criminal and the convict, the addict and the alcoholic" to order weapons by mail with no questions asked...
...times have changed again in Russia. After four years of study, the Supreme Soviet is about to enact a new Family, Code, the object of daily dissection in Izvestia over the past six months. One of its main provisions removes the burden of shame that was the inevitable legacy to illegitimate children of Stalin's wartime mating call. It not only provides for financial support when paternity can be established but, more important, permits unwed mothers to make up a father's name to put on their child's birth certificate and other documents. In Russia that...
...fear of trespassing or lawbreaking. A perfect example of this was in the elaborate 900th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings plotted by the Lampoon last year. Rich and jubilant after a tremendously successful Play boy parody, the Poonies hired elephants and specially designed bows and arrows to re-enact the great battle right here at Cambridge-on-the-Charles. All the arrangements were made amidst great excitement and relative secrecy. What stopped the warriors from their brave encounter? They were refused permission from University Hall. The apocryphal answer they were given, the word from on high, stopping them...
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...