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...Iowa, for instance, the cry has gone up against liberal Democratic Senator Dick Clark that he is nothing but "a clone of Teddy Kennedy." Republicans had better take a second look. As his words to the mayors in Atlanta show, Teddy Kennedy is talking about ways to keep the lid on spending. He is even arguing that his $27 billion national health-care plan is the essence of frugality; otherwise health costs will be even higher. Teddy's heart may not be in the same place as the heart of Howard Jarvis, but Kennedy and his friends are getting...
...share. Government must curb spending, companies must hold down prices, unions must settle for smaller pay increases. That, in brief, is Jimmy Carter's three-sided strategy. For the past two months, the White House has been lecturing Congress on spending and badgering business to put a lid on prices. Last week it was labor's turn in the spotlight, and the results were not encouraging...
...ever conducted. More than 117,000 replies overwhelmed the ballot counters, who reported that sentiment solidly supported sharp cuts in all taxes-property, sales and income. The Boston Herald American in a similar poll found that about 80% of responding readers backed a proposal to place a lid on property taxes at 2.5% of market value. A bill to do just that was introduced in the Massachusetts legislature by four Republican lawmakers...
...price increases below the average of the past two years. A scattering of the nation's largest companies have agreed to cooperate on the question of executive salary increases, but until Bethlehem, only a few, such as Kaiser Aluminum and Ford Motor Co., have actually put a lid on prices as well...
Northern statesmen, with much justice, have regarded this rhetoric as a kind of impractical Robin Hoodism. But with no discernible justice, the industrial countries have kept a tight lid on their assistance to LDCs. Japan spends only 0.21% of its burgeoning G.N.P. on foreign aid, vs. a U.N. target of 0.7% for industrial nations; the U.S. figure is 0.27%. True, the U.S. carries the heaviest defense burden in the non-Communist world. But Congress has foolishly sought to forbid aid to countries producing goods that compete or even might compete with American products...