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...easy to apply technical terms such as "progressive" or "regressive" taxes to everyday life. The value-added tax will force poorer people to pay more taxes while relieving giant corporations of much of their own tax burden. That's not theory, it's fact. To say that equitable tax laws create a "self-defeating system" is ridiculous. As my article pointed out, legislators can restructure America's taxes to provide incentives for savings and investments without forcing wealthy tax-payers to leave the United States. The elimination of interest-rate ceilings on bank savings accounts or the establishment tax credits...
Clinton, who served four terms on the school committee and one term, two years ago, on the City Council, said while condominium conversion provides more tax revenue, it decreases housing for poorer residents. A plan of vacancy decontrol and limitations of conversions in specific areas might counteract those problems, Clinton contends...
...They have their sticks out and they're using them, and they don't care that you're shouting "the whole world is watching." They are more than willing to go after the press people, and before the 15-minute retreat is over, CBS News is one camera poorer...
...industrial nations have the biggest bullion stocks, in terms of tons and also as a percentage of total reserves, so they gain most from a gold boom; the poorer states, with relatively meager holdings, benefit much less. Says an official at the British Ministry of Overseas Development: "We have a new category of haves and havenots. The Less Developed Countries, as usual, are suffering the most...
...YORK--Americans believe Congress is doing an even poorer job than President Carter, according to an Associated Press-NBC News poll released yesterday...