Word: repealer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final lurch toward solvency, Alpert persuaded the Governors of New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts to push through tax reductions totaling $6,000,000 on New Haven property. He hoped to save another $6,000,000 by economies in labor and management and by repeal of the 10% federal excise tax. But the state tax reductions did not go into effect until a fortnight ago, the federal tax was not repealed, and the labor-management savings never came about...
FEDERAL SPENDING : Goldwater has urged that the Government reduce its spending by 10% each year, withdrawing from virtually all welfare fields. He disapproves of social security as an interference in the private lives of U.S. citizens; but rather than repeal the program, he wants it made voluntary instead of compulsory. In the Senate he has voted four times (in 1958, '59, '60 and '61) against depressed-area bills, has strongly opposed medical care for the aged...
...Repeal of the individual deduction of the first $50 in dividend income, and of the 4% credit on dividend income over $50 (estimated revenue increase: $450 million...
...outlook is far from hopeless. Last year's principal obstacle, Chairman Graham Barde of the House Education and Labor Committee, has been removed by retirement and the co-sponsor of the Kennedy-Clark repeal bill is currently in the White House. But the current lack of agitation about Section 1001 (f) indicates that academic pressure may once again be too little and too late...
Supporters of repeal should learn from their past failures. They should realize that for the fourth year in a row NDEA will no doubt come up during summer vacation, when the academic community is least equipped to lobby effectively. They should recognize that, despite all the noise here in Cambridge, last year's effort was poorly organized and too small. If the nation's colleges and universities don't want that obnoxious affidavit on their hands for another three years they had better get busy...