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...various tax bonanzas for the rich is to encourage private investment in socially productive enterprises. Far from serving the public good, however, the tax subsidies usually mean that low and middle-income workers must pay more in taxes to make up for all the revenue lost through loopholes. Moreover, indirect subsidies through loopholes are usually more expensive than direct government action and mean less money for socially useful public services (which have been branded "inflationary" by the Nixon Administration) like health care, housing, education and aid to the handicapped. In short, the Federal Internal Revenue Code amounts to "socialism...
...said that the university professors are too skeptical about the effectiveness of such devices, and that "the present divination of pedagogical competence is a result of only indirect and questionable measures." But he added that teacher's reactions against changes in the format of education only reflect the temper of the times...
...help to feed and clothe the children of the poor; in most cities and suburbs mass transit is efficient, cheap and lavishly subsidized by U.S. standards. To be sure, none of those and other benefits are really free, since they are paid for by a complex of income and indirect taxes...
...government has cut all aid to the School except to cancer and heart research programs, which received increased subsidies. Hiatt said that the government is not only harming developments in these unaided areas, but is passing up the chance to find indirect new leads to the problems of cancer and heart disease...
...larger sense, the President's budget represents an intangible psychological setback to the progress of our city and to the hopes of our people. The indirect consequences--to our economic prosperity, to our soical progress, to our neighborhood revitalization--can't be measured in terms of dollars or programs...