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...migrant workers from Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia and Portugal only four years ago, some 2.5 million West Germans, or more than 10% of the working population, are now unemployed. The public sector is deeply in the red: the combined federal, state and local budget deficit for 1983 is expected to exceed $31 billion. The antidote that Kohl offered on the campaign trail was a stiff dose of government austerity coupled with incentives to foster free enterprise...
...campaign, Kohl had stressed pocketbook issues, warning voters that the country had been living beyond its means for too long. Industrial growth may reach no more than one-quarter of 1% in 1983. The combined federal, state and municipal government budget deficit for 1983 is projected to exceed $31 billion. Vogel had promised to cancel all the austerity measures that Kohl had taken during his five months as Chancellor prior to the election. Kohl's belt-tightening gospel was undoubtedly unpopular, but Vogel's vow to return to freer spending of dwindling government resources apparently turned...
...second cost-cutting measure would count health-insurance contributions provided by private employers as taxable income. Many businesses now offer health insurance as a fringe benefit and deduct their contributions as a business expense. The change would affect insurance programs whose premiums exceed $70 a month for an employee ($175 a month for a family); some 50 million privately insured employees would be involved. The Reagan Administration maintains that the tax would raise $2.3 billion in 1984. It argues that the policy is principally a cost-control device that will induce workers to pressure their employers for less comprehensive insurance...
...about $200,000 for a regular episode and, for the feature-length finale, $450,000, topping the rate of last month's Super Bowl by $50,000, to become the most expensive half-minute in TV history. In syndication, M*A*S*H's earnings already exceed $200 million, and keep on growing. There is a price for success, and Fox should be happy to pay it: a reported $5 million or so a year to Alan Alda, who anchored the show as Captain Hawkeye Pierce and wrote and directed many of the most memorable episodes...
...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...