Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weary to be surprised, a House-Senate conference committee late last week finished groping its way through all 250 disputed provisions of the Tax Reform Act of 1976 and found that it had produced more reform than almost anyone had expected. The bill, which is likely to be passed by both houses of Congress this week, falls far short of the wholesale rewrite of the tax code that ardent reformers, including Jimmy Carter, demand. It still leaves the code resembling a shapeless coat crazily patterned by holes and patches. But its provisions add up to the most significant changes...
Reasonable Bill. The point of greatest significance to most taxpayers is that the bill extends at least through 1977 the $17.3 billion worth of personal and corporate income tax cuts first passed last year. But extension of the cuts had never been in doubt; the reform provisions were another matter. "A long, tortuous struggle," sighed House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Al Ullman, and indeed it was. His committee began work on the bill more than a year and a half ago and produced a reasonable bill passed by the House last December. Despite this effort, the Senate version, passed...
...conferees' task was to restore both the reform and the revenue. "They said it couldn't be done," declared Ullman, sounding like a cigarette ad. "But we found ways to do it, and Senator Long helped." Russell Long, the wily chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, was the dominant figure in the conference. Though he is no friend of tax reform, Long kept a promise to try to reduce the revenue loss...
...scotch the criticism that the candidate is fuzzy on the issues, Eizenstat's group is drawing up 40 position papers on subjects including tax reform and Government reorganization. Defining Carter's philosophy, Eizenstat says it tries to combine "the compassion and concern of liberalism and the caution and efficiency of conservatism." Would he call it the "new liberalism?" No indeed, says Eizenstat. "I'd call it Carterism...
...promises to be no different. Blacks are drawn to Carter by his fair treatment of them as Governor of Georgia, his Baptist evangelicalism, which echoes their own language of love and trust, the presence of several high-ranking blacks in his campaign, and his support of programs like welfare reform and national health insurance. In particular, with unemployment among blacks running at 19% in urban ghettos, the jobs issue works strongly in his favor...