Word: reform
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More generally, competitive business is hurt by high taxation, as are landlords and fixed income people. O'Connor suggests that eventually popular antipathy towards government spending programs and priorities can be organized politically, and will shift its emphasis away from drastic cuts in government spending and towards the reform of government spending priorities...
While Carter may support any Democratic candidate, as one of his aides put it this week, observers wonder whether he will actively work for King, who has taken a conservative stand on issues including abortion, capital punishment and tax reform...
...familiar face at Logan. It was a good night for all of them, he concluded, showing a good deal more assurance in the outcome, and a lot less amazement at its denouement, than most of the people there. "It's the middle-class issues, you know--tax reform, abortion, the death penalty--that's why we're winning this," he announced. I thanked him for his wisdom, and strolled off in search of other feeding fish...
...congressional policymakers are agreed that the era of reform in taxes can be closed out, because most of the loopholes have been sewn up. Indeed, Ullman chided Carter for having raised the reform issue without any acknowledgment of the many steps taken since the 1969 tax reform to remove inequities in the system. Long pointed out that much of the push behind reform derived from public fury in the late 1960s over some widely publicized reports about people with huge incomes who paid no taxes. Indeed, he said, one poll shows that many still think that more than half...
...importing 8.5 million barrels of oil per day, still driving our gas-guzzlers down the expressways at 70 miles per hour, still stalling in the developement of solar, geothermal, wind and other renewable forms of energy. Even if the other four parts of Carter's energy package--utility rate reform, conversion to more use of coal by industry, conservation measures, and crude oil taxes--are enacted, many serious measures will still be needed to create an effective national energy policy. Congress has considerably watered down the President's energy program, particularly in the areas of coal conversion and conservation...