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...bedroom house on an acre of land with two bathrooms and swimming pool for $46,000 and a 7.75% mortgage. The climate is mild, taxes are low (5%), and good education is available at little cost. A decade of economic sanctions imposed by the United Nations has caused little hardship. Almost everything is available for a price, from caviar to cars to calculators. Most households employ two or three domestic servants at wages of $25 to $50 a month. Nonetheless, two in every seven white Rhodesian marriages end in divorce-the highest rate of "marital failure " in the world after...
...touch of apocalypticism is an appropriate conclusion to this idiosyncratic book. The accompanying nostalgia is something else. It is generally agreed that the human animal appears to have evolved because of hardship, not in spite of it, but Ardrey seems almost too wistful for the times when we survived by the skin of our fangs. R.Z. Sheppard
...funds if they did not try for results, to the writers in Commentary there seemed to be little difference between goals and quotas. And, some Jews seemed to hold a particular feeling of resentment towards blacks, who "wanted special privilege," believing that if Jews could overcome their own hardship by their bootstraps, others could as well. For those once discriminated against unofficially, it became difficult to understand why the government should sanction this new form of discrimination against them...
...while this crude threat is not to be overestimated--after all, it is not very likely that the US will threaten to turn off the taps to Japan, or even France--the point would be underlined that American leadership of the capitalist world cannot be questioned without serious hardship for the questioner. Implicit though it may remain, the message would be impossible to misread...
That seems hyperbolic; Ford's plan has much to commend it. Inheritance taxes now place a disproportionate hardship on small estates, partly because it is often hard to appraise the true value of small farms and businesses. Another reason: the tax schedule is not very progressive. The current average effective rate on a $300,000 estate is about 10%; the effective rate on a $1 million estate is less than double that-about...