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Revenues. They will be raised in two ways. Carter will ask Congress to institute a new withholding tax on interest and dividends. "It is intolerable for some to evade prompt payment of taxes," he said. That move alone would increase revenues by $3 billion in fiscal 1981, but much of the increase would not really be new money, merely cash that the Government would collect more speedily than now planned. Far more important, the President will slap a $4.62 per bbl. fee on imported oil, a move that he can take without any new legislative authority. Motorists will...
...Kennedy--out of habit, if nothing else. Although Massachusetts voters probably won't be looking over their shoulders to New Hampshire (heavily blue collar and Catholic, despite liberals seeping across the line seeking lower taxes) to tell them how to vote, an especially poor showing by Kennedy there could prompt more active support in Massachusetts. But the Kennedy camp is wise to be wary of too much optimism--only two years ago Dukakis discovered the hard way that liberal supporters stay at home if they don't feel needed...
...topics prompt more immediate-and impassioned-responses than the John Birch Society. Reactionary. Ultra-right wing. Anti fluoridation. But almost no one seems to know how these associations came to exist. The answer goes back to a single book, a single angry man and his cause...
Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, who oversees HDNS, said he believes Esty will receive a prompt response from Smith if he sends him another copy of the most recent letter...
...making a karate chop. "If you don't, the big bear reaches out for more." But overreaction could be as dangerous as retreat. Not only might too bellicose an American policy provoke a superpower confrontation, but it would greatly concern U.S. allies situated near the U.S.S.R. and perhaps prompt them to seek their own accommodations with the Kremlin. What the Administration needs is a package of balanced moves to check Soviet expansion by making it more costly without directly threatening the U.S.S.R...