Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When President Kennedy planned a tax cut in 1963 to stimulate a sluggish economy, he coupled his proposal with various tax-reform measures. It was a big mistake; Congress, the Executive, and lobbyists spent months haggling over the measure. President Johnson, who must have learned from the experience of his predecessor, is currently planning to propose tax reforms independently of his proposal for an income tax surcharge...
...correction, but most have little chance for serious Congressional consideration. The President has more pressing business to attend to: the condition of the national economy, Vietnam and its budgetary demands, and the Congressional attempts to cut his domestic programs. He will not be able to press Congress on reform. For its own part, Congress has a special aversion towards any reform of the tax system; often the financial interests closest to Congressmen happen to be the very beneficiaries of economic distortions and abuses...
More shocking than the allowance has been Congressional response to reform efforts. Twice President Truman proposed decreasing the allowance to 15 per cent. Each time, Congress enlarged the loophole instead of reducing it. President Kennedy's proposal for a cut and Senator Proxmire's more recent one were both handily defeated...
Some businessmen have already joined the effort. An organization called New Detroit representing all sectors of the community, was formed to assist the city's restoration. The National Urban Coalition, representing industry, labor, local government, churches and civil rights groups, organized and issued an ambitious manifesto for reform. In city halls, state houses, and chamber of commerce offices across the country, officials and businessmen mobilized to provide jobs...
...casual fashion, juvenile judge got to know juvenile delinquent. Wearing sports shirts and slacks or shorts, 32 judges took long walks, played ball and sipped sodas with 33 youths from the Lookout Mountain School for Boys, a reform school in Golden, Colo. And the jurists learned a few things...