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...muster support, Nixon might chop as much as $2 billion out of dubious programs. First to feel the ax should be maritime subsidies, which now cost about $500 million a year, money largely ill-spent. Also due for pruning is the farm bloc's annual harvest of $3.5 billion in subsidies, two-thirds of which goes to farmers with incomes of more than $20,000. The fact that Mississippi's Senator James Eastland's plantations receive $157,930 a year for not growing cotton - while some of his constituents go hungry - ought to be reproach enough. Ironically...
...that are normally used to increase security benefits. So long as there is inflation, benefits have to be increased, but perhaps not to the full amount of the surplus. Reform of the Post Office would save at least $1.5 billion, as well as move letters faster, while another $100 million could be found by asking whether it still makes sense for the Rural Electrification Administration to subsidize rural cooperatives with 2% loans. Congress should also be shamed into cutting the $4.6 billion a year that goes for pork-barrel public-works projects. The nation owes a great deal...
...often, reality bears them out. What, then, can anyone do? Big Government or big business or big cities cannot be done away with. A nation of 200 million or 300 million-as the U.S. will be in another generation-cannot survive without a vast bureaucracy and without a multitude of laws. The day is long gone when a family could simply pack up to avoid being hemmed in by complexity. Even as technology opens up vast new worlds, extending man's powers and perceptions a thousand-or millionfold, many long for the simplicity of an earlier era. Yet there...
...Forward Thrust's case, a 51% approval did not pass a bond issue; it took a clear 60% majority. When the voters went to the booths last year to consider twelve separate issues, costing $820 million, they passed seven of them, costing $334 million. Seattle's central area, a Negro slum, supported the entire program and will receive benefits from a $12 million street-improvement bond issue, plus new parks and swimming pools. The most expensive single item to be rejected-a $385 million mass-transit system-will be presented to the voters again next year, when traffic...
...shortage of potatoes; two-thirds of the crop has been lost, as has nearly half of the corn and one-third of the rice. Nearly 700,000 sheep and about 300,000 head of cattle have perished. Losses in agriculture and livestock alone are estimated to have reached $180 million...