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Bringing up the tax cut proposal sponsored by Sen. William J. Roth (R-Del.) and Rep. Jack F. Kemp (R-N.Y.), Feldstine argued that "in a society like ours where inflation is inherent," a tax cut should be, in some way, linked to the inflation rate...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Feldstein Expresses Pessimism About Future of Proposition 13 | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...gathering in a backyard in Brooklyn. G.O.P. National Chairman Bill Brock told the Brooklynites: "The average New Yorker pays $800 more in federal income tax today than four years ago. I think that's insane." His audience agreed, but still seemed a bit baffled by the Kemp-Roth 33% solution. As Ann Hickey told the Republicans at a subsequent stop in Upper Darby, Pa.: "I just don't see how you can cut taxes without cutting services, and I want to know what services are going to be cut." The still untested Kemp-Roth theory may prove to be reasonably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tax-Slashing Campaign | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...effort to change the G.O.P. image and arouse voter excitement, many Republicans have been trying a different tactic this campaign. They have been championing the Kemp-Roth bill, which calls for a 33% federal income tax cut over a three-year period. The measure is based on the theory of Economist Arthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tax-Slashing Campaign | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

Trying to drum up support for Kemp-Roth, a group of Republican leaders, including New York Congressman Jack Kemp, toured the country for three days last month in what they called a "tax blitz." At the cost of $150,000 for the trip, the Republicans figured they got $2.5 million in free publicity. But their live audiences were hardly worth the effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tax-Slashing Campaign | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

When the Minnesota poll gave Boschwitz a 23-point lead in August, a worried Anderson began to hit back hard, insisting that Kemp-Roth would require a 20% cut in federal spending and cause an "inflationary explosion." His name for his foe: "Big Business Boschwitz." One Anderson TV ad portrays Boschwitz as a cigar-smoking, pin-striped fat cat riding in a careering black limousine, forcing pedestrians to leap out of the way. Anderson also does not hesitate to remind voters that Boschwitz was state chairman for Nixon-Agnew in 1968. Complains Boschwitz: "Guilt by association. I thought that went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Revolt in the Midwest | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

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