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Internal Revenue Statistics compiled by the House Republican Conference show that the cuts reduced the total amount of taxes paid by poorer citizens while the amount of taxes paid by the middle class remained the same, and the tax bill of upper-income citizens actually increased, in spite of the lower rates. The conference's statistics show that from 1921 to 1925, the total income tax paid in the $0-$5000 class dropped by 85 per cent: in the $5000-$10,000 class by 57 per cent: in the $10,000 to $15,000 class by 57 per cent...
...benefits VISTA gave to communities it covered, the volunteers it employed and the nation it served are not the kind that show up dramatically on graphs; consequently, VISTA is probably doomed. But even if VISTA's loss may not diminish the gross national product, we will be a poorer nation without it. VISTA was among a group of programs that, for all their problems, announced to the world that the American government saw what was wrong with this country and tried to change it. And perhaps more importantly, VISTA was conceived in the belief that there were ordinary people...
...from what the pro-choice advocates call a "barefoot and pregnant" domestic role. For a career woman, or a young student working to enter the job market, being forced to bear an unwanted child, and perhaps deciding to accept an undesired marriage, will drastically alter her life forever. For poorer women or-in these times of high inflation-many middle-class women, the burden of an extra child is something they and their entire family may well find destructive. The right to seek an abortion gives women an element of freedom and control over their lives that men have always...
...demanded money from the cashier. Ramp remained silent in the dressing room, where she had been trying on a shirt, until the men had made their getaway with about $300. "If I had surprised them, anything could have happened," she says. Ramp emerged from the ordeal unscathed-but $25 poorer: "After watching the whole thing, I felt obliged to buy the shirt." Assistant Picture Editor Sue Considine, who gathered the photos that accompany the cover stories, lost $120 from her pocketbook in a Greenwich Village restaurant. Says she: "Now I know to keep...
Therefore, the Saudis share the responsibility of major industri alized countries to help the international financial institutions as sist the LDCs. In the long run it is in the interests of the West and its wealthy friends in the Third World to wean the poorer na tions from their current paradoxical addiction: socialist nostrums at home financed by capitalist largesse from abroad...