Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Another even more important reason why Mayor Lindsay would not locally raise sufficient revenue to finance his programs goes back to the central theme of conflict between economically optimal and socially desirable policies...
RAISING tax rates is not the only means of increasing locally raised revenue. One could also increase the tax base, holding rates constant (or even lowering them). The most important local tax is that on property, and the Mayor might also increase the property tax base for more revenue...
...paper, it would appear that the President did not run very far, and even faced up to the problem. By August he had proposed a revenue sharing plan "asking that a set amount of Federal revenues be returned annually to the states to be used as the states and their local governments see fit-without Federal strings...
...from the outset-not only by default, but because they really are swell people. They want to be able to smoke pot without coughing; they want to believe in Esalen; they want to dig wife-swapping. If they rather than Bob and Carol, had gone to Esalen, they might even have been saved...
...RIGHTS, then, we should hate Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice. But consider: Ted and Alice are the most convincing married couple to appear in a Hollywood film for a long time. As played by Gould and Cannon, they are funny and sometimes touching and always appealing. Even if Hollywood still has to sell-out when it presents revolutionaries, it has at least learned to give us human straight guys...