Word: repeals
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...have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them...
Barry Goldwater is a man of integrity. That is, if integrity is defined as a reasonable correlation between rhetoric and action. One of the popular jokes about the man relates his "desire to repeal the twentieth century." Yet to read his speeches and peruse his voting record is to understand the more serious undertones of the humorous overstatement...
Although he has never, as rumored, asked for complete repeal of Social Security, he has urged that participation in the system be made voluntary...
...taxes he has said, "We can't repeal the income tax totally. It's an evil, but we obviously need major sources of revenue," and this discontent motivates his opposition to spending programs. "Spending cuts should come before tax cuts," he declared this year, while voting against the Youth Conservation Corps, federal participation in urban mass transportation, increases in the area redevelopment program, and legislation authorizing the training of the unemployed...
...last week Lippmann seemed to be un-excommunicating Barry. The Arizona Republican, wrote Lippmann, had backed away from such radical stands as repeal of Social Security* and the graduated income tax laws. Now, Goldwater "is well along on the road where he will sound less and less like Goldwater and more and more like Eisenhower. If he is to be nominated and is to stand any chance of election, he must make himself acceptable to the preponderant mass of the voters. They are not on the right and they are not on the left, but around the center." Concluded Lippmann...