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Unpopular tax increases and painful spending cuts are the distasteful alternatives that Congress faces in reducing next year's federal budget deficit to the $144 billion limit required by the Gramm-Rudman measure. But now a growing number of lawmakers are talking about including a third, relatively painless remedy: a onetime federal tax amnesty that would allow past evaders to clear their slates--and at least part of Uncle Sam's--in a single stroke...
...cost oil could help the Federal Government deal with its debilitating budget deficit. As long as crude prices are falling, increased energy taxes would be a relatively painless way of raising money. In the Senate, New Jersey Democrat Bill Bradley has proposed tripling the current 9 cents-per-gal. gasoline tax, a move that he estimates would bring the Government an extra $15 billion a year. President Reagan conceded for the first time last week that he would listen to proposals for an energy tax, but only if it would be used for reducing other levies rather than purely...
...itself wary. For ghost-ridden common room dwellers a wink, And for all autumn-lovers a pumpkin-filled sink. For upperclass prefects a few good cold showers, And a few common rooms for the Mather gang's towers. An off-campus shelter for each Cabot dweller--And a quick painless end to the noise in the cellar. Some new ideas for the House Committees Who can't hold keg parties in such a strict city, And for all those upholding the laws against drink A gallon of New Coke (to pour down the sink...
...toothbrush; Henry VIII granting a charter for dental surgery to barbers; Paul Revere providing dental fillings before proceeding to larger items of silverware; Charles Lindbergh posing with his grandfather, the inventor of the porcelain jacket crown. Seldom has dentistry been so educational. Never has it been so painless...
ONLY A QUACK offers a quick, painless fix for a serious illness. And although we may be tempted at times to seek such expedient treatment, sound judgement tells us to forebear...