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...receiving at the same time, higher vocational training. After this period only those would go to universities who really wish to do so, while the rest would feel a much greater stake in a society that they helped rebuild. This would also do away with the exemption of college students which, in connection with the war in Vietnam, is behind so much of the student unrest. For example, if I am exempt from service when others are not, I can live in peace with myself only if I am convinced this is a vile...
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...trust income. Another target is "multiple subsidiaries"-a method by which some companies split up into myriad separate firms to take advantage of the lower tax rates (22% v. 48%) imposed on businesses with less than $25,000 income. Nixon also took aim at some wild abuses by tax-exempt organizations. Among other things, private foundations would be required to substantiate their charitable activities and be barred from financial dealings with contributors, directors or other insiders. The investment income of social clubs and other tax-exempt organizations would be taxed. Churches would have to pay taxes on income earned...
...draft law currently limits the combat-exempt status of a conscientious objector to one "who, by reason of religious training and belief, is conscientiously opposed to participation in war in any form." Virtually all draft boards have interpreted those words to mean that 1) a draftee's opposition cannot be the product of a merely personal moral code, and 2) his opposition must be directed against all wars, not one specific conflict like Viet Nam. Last week both of those assumptions were declared unconstitutional by Charles Edward Wyzanski, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts...
...petition for the abolition of grades states that "grades promote acquiescence and conformity among students and exempt teachers from the necessity of being relevant, interesting and well prepared in their classes." The entire enrollment of the course endorsed the proposal that grades be abolished...