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...This is where it is at," Califano declared happily last week. That was after being told by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan that his department was guilty of "dumb insolence" before the Congress, that it had a tradition of "obfuscation, frequently lying, but in any case avoidance of the issue." But so much for one day's flak. The very next morning he was at the White House with seven key members of Congress announcing the new college-aid proposals, and Kentucky's Carl Perkins clapped him soundly on the back and declared, "I think...
Carter's hastily worked-out measure was designed to counter the popularity of the two rival aid proposals now before Congress. One plan, introduced in the Senate last fall by Oregon Republican Robert Packwood and New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, would allow a taxpayer to deduct up to 50% of the money paid for his children's tuition fees at private elementary and secondary schools and at colleges and universities, up to a limit of $500 per child. In comparison, the College Tuition Tax Relief Act proposed by Delaware's Republican Senator William Roth is, like...
Defending his own more limited remedy, Carter charged that the other programs would be excessively costly and un ocused. The Packwood - Moynihan proposal would cost the Treasury $4.7 billion a year and the Roth plan $1.9 billion v. Carter's $1.5 billion. Direct tax credits, the President added, would also "provide benefits to those who do not need them...
Meanwhile, neither Roth nor the Packwood-Moynihan team is prepared to abandon the tax-credit measures. Says Roth, whose proposal has passed the Senate three times but foundered in the House: "A majority in both the House and the Senate are sponsors of tuition tax cred its." No fewer than 252 members of the House and 57 Senators co-sponsored various tax credit bills in the past year. Nonetheless, Carter's proposal has gained support from influential members of the House Committee on Education and Labor. Either way, the chances are good that middle-income families will win some...
...Moynihan, an advocate of federal loan guarantees to avert bankruptcy for New York City, recalled that many New Deal projects, like the Tennessee Valley Authority, were designed by a largely Northern Administration specifically to aid the South to recover from the Depression. He asked: "What will become of this tradition of national liberalism if the region from whence it emerged should look up two generations later and find that... resources flowed South [but] never North...