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...Britain's already stiff regular income taxes. The result is that taxpayers now have to pay at least 690 on every dollar of investment income over $7,200. The total tax rate rises to 100%. when so-called "unearned income" reaches $43,200. After that, taxes actually exceed income. For example, people with investment income of more than $120,000 have to shell out at least $1.26 on every dollar over that amount, making it necessary to dig into capital to pay their tax bills...
...shattered. The number of new homeless refugees now clogging city slums stands at 650,000 and is still climbing; and there were already 800,000 refugees pre-Tet. Saigon has not even begun to calculate its civilian dead, and the countrywide figure, when complete, may well exceed...
Suppose the war in Vietnam is brought to an end sometime this year. Eckstein estimates that the direct and immediate saving will exceed $10 billion as "spending for munitions, planes, helicopters, food, gasoline, transportation, and extra troops pay tapers...
...more pressing concern is the shortage of trained troops. The Administration insisted that reinforcements will not add to the 525,000 total already scheduled to be in Viet Nam by July, but are merely an acceleration of the buildup. Westmoreland has made no official request to exceed the ceiling of 525,000-that is, not yet. However, no one will be surprised if the general does ask for more men, and gets them: he is already strapped for combat-ready ground units...
People opposed to this country's action in Vietnam, including our use of napalm, could express themselves most convincingly in a large orderly demonstration on the occasion of the Dow recruiter's visit. In number, people opposed to the war exceed those who are united on any single position with regard to campus recruitment, student power, or the draft; they also exceed those willing to join in obstructing the recruiter. The amount of serious support at Harvard for any stand will be judged according to the number (not vociferousness) of those who take it. A non-obstructing, massive anti...