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...Excess Profits...
...would institute an excess profits tax on windtall profits resulting from wage and price control and would also increase the tax on millionaires." McGovern added and referred to the oil import quota as "Robin Hoodism in reverse...
Riots broke out in Pittsburgh yesterday. One might wonder at the cause of such excess and overt jubilation, but it's been a long time since Pittsburgh had a winner. After 20 years of failure, Steeler fans have had to rejoice over mediocrity instead of success. In basketball and hockey, the Penguins and Condors offer only slightly more than semi-pro success. For the past decade, Pittsburgh has been savoring the victories of Arnold Palmer and the 1960 Pirates. After 11 years of memories, victory was a little too sweet...
...achieves this limitation by lowering the supply of low-income housing. Turning over excess Underemployed Housing to industry, for demolition and construction of manufacturing plant, will permit the city, he believes to realize very significant long-term improvement in upward job-mobility...
...goal of this policy should be to remove 5 per cent of the Underemployed Housing per year while using the land cleared in this manner to build new industries. The new industries would raise the income levels of Underemployed neighborhoods, which would permit better housing. Meanwhile, because the excess of Underemployed Housing was gone, the city would not be flooded by a new wave of Underemployed from outside...