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...dark shades, sequined band jacket and one of the red ceremonial sashes that make him look like a cultural ambassador from Sesame Street, he announced in a voice frayed by nerves that he had seen Ladonna Jones' letter. Therefore, he was asking the promoters to figure out another, fairer way to sell tickets, and he was donating his tour earnings to charity. He took no questions from the floor, just hotfooted it out of the place and back, properly, to where he belonged, waiting for the sheltering security of performing onstage...
Your roundup of proposed ways of making the federal tax structure fairer and more productive, "Tax Ideas from Flat to VAT," is incomplete. The House Ways and Means Committee has before it my progressive consumption-tax proposal (H.R. 4442). The consumption tax would drastically reduce the number of exclusions, deductions and credits that now make the Internal Revenue Code a cabala for tax lawyers and C.P.A.s. It would allow the deduction of all savings and investments, on the theory that people should be taxed on what they take out of the national economy by way of consumption...
However, Rondeau points out that 82 percent of those eligible for membership if unionization is successful are women, who are traditionally lower-paid than men. And the union has not backed off its call for a fairer grievance procedure, higher pay, a dental plan, comprehensive health insurance and daycare...
Wrote one: "Your review of the sins of the press is fairer than we had any right to expect...
...programs to reduce federal deficits. Farmers would no longer receive subsidies to limit production; instead, the government would buy surpluses and distribute them to alleviate hunger at home and abroad. McGovern also supports the installation of a flat tax rate, designed to eliminate loopholes, increase revenue and, ultimately, be fairer than the present convoluted tax codes...