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Erratic Assessments. In greatly differing ways, the cry for changes in the property tax has been picked up by men as disparate in their views as California Governor Ronald Reagan, Michigan Governor William Milliken, former Senator Paul Douglas. Educator Robert Hutchins and HUD Secretary George Romney. Ralph Nader has added the reform of property taxes to his roster of causes, charging that so much business and industrial real estate is undertaxed as to constitute "a national scandal of corruption, illegalities and incompetence." As a result, says Nader, "small businessmen and the owners of houses are paying nearly one-third more...
This year, Campaign GM-directed by a group of Washington lawyers that Ralph Nader supports-has made new proposals and, according to Sargent Kennedy '28, Secretary to the Corporation, the Harvard Corporation is "examining them carefully...
...Jobs. Nader's group is not optimistic about the effectiveness of either President Nixon's or Senator Edmund Muskie's water-quality bills now before Congress. Though both improve present laws, they are riddled with loopholes. To close them, the researchers propose several amendments. Example: federal pollution-control officers should be made to investigate all offenses and issue abatement orders immediately-or themselves face penalties...
...Nader report bristles with characteristic impatience. It scoffs at the old argument that the U.S. economy will suffer because pollution control will put marginal industries out of business. A big cleanup, it says, would probably create more jobs than it would destroy "because there is more work to be done." That remains debatable...
Even so, the report has caused surprisingly little criticism of its substantive points. "I agree with Ralph Nader," says William Ruckelshaus, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. "We are in danger of creating a water wasteland if we permit to happen in the future what has happened in the past." Ruckelshaus promises "radical changes" in law enforcement...