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Despite his nebulous and often contradictory position on foreign policy, in his hard hitting domestic program, he successfully reconciles McGovern the idealist and McGovern, the pragmatist. Campaigning under the lincoln green banner of Robin Hood, he proposes a tax system to "take from the rich and give to the poor" and does everything but call President Nixon the Sheriff of Nottingham. His program includes excess profits tax, an end to oil depletion allowances, a realistic minimum income tax, an increased tax on millionaires, and better consumer protection...
...stand on issues has been consistently bold, if occassionally contradictory, and the idealism of his Robin Hood program does not blind him to the reality of human greed...
...James Robin professor of economics at Yale helped develop the program. "In the future," he said yesterday, more imaging must come from the students." The program is designed to aid students paying for their own education he said by "not saddling them with debts that disregard their ability...
...think perhaps it's time to read again the story of Robin Hood who, in the tradition of Sherwood Forest took from the rich and gave to the poor," McGovern mused...
...would institute an excess profits tax on windtall profits resulting from wage and price control and would also increase the tax on millionaires." McGovern added and referred to the oil import quota as "Robin Hoodism in reverse...