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Candidate: Hello-this is Hubert Humphrey on a recorded message...
...Voter: Hubert...
When asked their stand on taxes, all too many presidential candidates have refused to say much more than that they ought to go down. Not some of this year's Democratic hopefuls. Edmund Muskie, George McGovern and Hubert Humphrey have either proposed or endorsed surprisingly detailed tax reforms that would cancel many benefits now enjoyed by U.S. companies, sew up loopholes used by the rich, and probably increase the tax bill of almost everyone with an income above $12,500. The Democrats are making tax reform a big, sharp campaign issue...
...Government $125 million in subsidies in the past year and that has raised prices to consumers. Three political committees of dairy co-ops have given more than $400,000 to Republican Party or Nixon re-election committees over the past year. In 1970, dairymen also gave $5,000 to Hubert Humphrey and $1,666 to Edmund Muskie. Despite the striking difference in contributions, both Senators joined in supporting bills that would have forced an increase in support prices had Hardin not granted...
McGovern's camp, which is formidably organized in Wisconsin, always contended that the race would eventually narrow down to their man and Hubert. To staffers still preparing offensives against Muskie, McGovern Adviser Frank Mankiewicz scoffed last week with perhaps premature bravado: "You're firing torpedoes into the hulk of the Graf Spec...