Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abuses built into the present system are obvious, and were raised over and over again in the last Presidential campaign, especially by George McGovern and George Wallace...
...should the present system be changed? Senators McGovern and Muskie have proposed workable plans which could save at least $20 billion in lost revenue. The various proposals call for (among other reforms) increases in the low taxes on capital gains, in line with McGovern's campaign maxim that money made by money should be taxed as much as money made by men; further reduction of the depletion allowance on oil, gas and mineral resources; repeal of the 1971 Investment Tax Credit for corporations; reform of estate and gift taxes; the establishment of a minimum tax on persons with high income...
March 1: Hostages released; Senators McGovern, Kennedy, and Fulbright negotiate with AIM leaders...
...P.O.W. Colonel Risner said the protesters were responsible for the last year or two of his imprisonment-something the great majority of the American people always knew. Now would seem to be a good time for great protesters such as Senators Brooke, Fulbright, Church and McGovern to seek amnesty from the President and from the P.O.W.s for their considerable part in delaying the peace...
Parts of this national roulette game fixed in favor of the upper brackets came to view as an election issue last year, when Senator George McGovern proposed sweeping reforms that would have forced the rich to pay taxes far closer to their supposedly assigned level than they actually do. McGovern's tax goals, rather fuzzily calculated from the start, got badly tangled up in his corollary proposal to redistribute many of the tax proceeds to those on the lower end of the income scale. It happens that Author Stern personally favors a similar plan. But he is careful...