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More recently, Regan startled even his harshest critics with his proposal for the most sweeping reform of federal tax laws since World War II. Among those who have endorsed the proposal are Economist Joseph Pechman of the Brookings Institution and Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader--a following that prompted Regan to quip, "What have I done wrong?" The President has not embraced the whole package, but he did call it "the best proposal for changing the tax system that has ever occurred within my lifetime...
...lung disease, according to studies by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Early detection of the ailments could prevent serious disability or death. The Centers for Disease Control asked for $4 million in the 1985 budget to notify vulnerable workers. But according to Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader and Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Public Citizen Health Research Group, the Reagan Administration rejected that request. In a letter to the President last week, Nader and Wolfe wrote, "The lame excuse offered in defense of this unethical, immoral decision is 'there is no legal responsibility for NIOSH...
Government officials say they have warned the companies involved about health hazards, but not individual workers. Nader contends that this policy is designed to protect corporations from costly lawsuits. Dr. Edward Brandt, Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services, denies the charge. Says he: "We are in the health business. We have nothing to do with litigation...
...most vigorous opponents of the Dole plan are safety activists and insurance companies who have lobbied persistently for mandatory air bags rather than the intrusive, easily detachable automatic seat belts favored by the auto industry. "It's a bloody snare and a mischievous delusion," said Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader. "I didn't believe [the Government] could be so Machiavellian in giving the auto companies a chance to do in the air bag once and for all." The State Farm Insurance Co. and the National Association of Independent Insurers have filed a suit claiming that Dole's order...
What's the difference? cries the good Dr. Seuss in a plea predictably hailed for its sanity by everyone from Art Buchwald ("must reading") to Ralph Nader ("a bundle of wisdom in a small package"). Now is it really necessary to observe that in this world, as opposed to Dr. Seuss's cuddly creation, what divides Yooks and Zooks is democracy and constitutional government, among other conventions? The principal reason Yooks insist on arming themselves is that the Zooks of this planet have the unfortunate tendency to build gulags (for export too) and to stockpile those nasty intercontinental...