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...each individual. Ways and Means approved a $21.3 billion cut that is weighted much more heavily in favor of lower-income groups. The measure provides for a 1974 rebate of $8.1 billion. It rebates all taxes paid up to $100, and 10% of all taxes up to a maximum rebate of $200. At that point, as income levels rise higher, it begins to scale back...
...four-month jail term for his part in the fraud. Last week Frank DeMarco, 49, a Los Angeles tax attorney, and Ralph Newman, 63, a Chicago appraiser, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington for their role in the affair. If convicted, De-Marco faces a maximum 15-year sentence and $25,000 in fines; Newman could get eight years and a $15,000 fine...
That agenda now includes rather minor policy matters, such as the maximum number of hours a worker should work per week, or how often to wash the aprons. But it has included items such as wages, prices and store-hours changes and whether to invest in a new air-conditioner...
...benefits were never intended to substitute for wages, there is a strong case for higher benefits in today's inflationary climate. Says New Jersey State Labor and Industry Commissioner Joseph Hoffman: "For the average worker with two children, to live on this state's $90-a-week maximum means subsisting on the poverty level...
...immediate objective of Kissinger's trip last week was to explore the possibility of further ameliorating the Israeli-Egyptian confrontation in the Sinai, the easiest problem to untangle. In Jerusalem and Cairo, Kissinger offered no solutions but solicited from both sides a general idea of their minimum and maximum concessions. Thus there was no need for formal positions, policy clarifications or what Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon at one point referred to as "new miracles" from the Middle East's proclaimed miracle worker...