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...essence the plan will make a lot of students poorer and a lot of parents richer over a transitional period of about 40 or 50 years," Olson said yesterday. He added that the plan could serve as a "disincentive" for students to earn higher incomes and thus pay back more of the loan each year...
...additional statistical support last week. Take-home pay rose briskly in August, the Labor Department reported, and the average production worker with three dependents pocketed precisely $182.49, up 5.1% from a year ago. But inflation has made a mockery of the increase, and in fact Mr. Average is 2.5% poorer than he was last year and near ly 4.5% poorer than in 1972. Back then, his take-home pay of $121.68 was worth $96.80 in 1967 dollars. In those terms, the buying power of the pay he pocketed in August 1978 was only...
Officials in the eastern sector said more than two-thirds of the 600,000 Christians here have fled to the mountains or the country. The remainder, mostly poorer residents, have stayed behind to support the militia or to protect their property from looting...
...other great tax thrust of the past decade-the effort to use the system to shift wealth from richer citizens to poorer ones through various forms of transfer payments-it has gone about as far as it can. Transfer payments, such as Social Security and welfare benefits, account for more of the federal budget than anything else, including defense, and probably cannot be increased further, either as a practical or a political matter. The public's mood, as Conable described it, is, "Quit all this talking about equity, and cut my taxes...
...least as strongly about taxes. But, he adds, the revolt is not an unqualified conservative backlash or a mindless desire to dismantle government. It is also not a code word for racial prejudice. Nor is it a soak-the-rich movement. Quite the contrary, Yankelovich has found that most poorer Americans still believe that they have a chance to achieve wealth and they do not want the opportunity removed. Nor do they feel excessively jealous of those who have already made it, since they believe luck, to a large degree, determines who has good fortune and their turn may come...