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...University of Massachusetts--Boston professor who asked to remain anonymous has taken an intellectual view of the situation. "I believe in original sin," he said. "This country is greased on money; as long as it's a capitalist system this sort of thing will happen," he added...
Kenneth Gibson, mayor of Newark, on so-called nuisance taxes: "I call them sin taxes, you know, on cigarettes, liquor, gambling. The reason they can pass sin taxes is that the sinners aren't organized. How many drinkers are organized...
...nothing but a collection of hokey cliches. In the first five minutes, we see sledding kids, skating kids, kids watching TV, kids delivering the newspaper, daddies shoveling the sidewalk, mommy driving the car. Then comes religion--the snowy church, icons on the wall, grace before dinner, and discussions of sin among the men. The images peak as the kids are packed off on a church trip to California. Kids and church, church and kids...
...Brazil, delegates representing 50,000 church-organized grass-roots communities declared at their annual meeting last year: "Land in the hands of those who don't need it, workers earning a pittance, hunger, infant mortality and illiteracy. This great sin is a social sin, and it is called the capitalist system...
That is one of the most durable and emotional questions in American political debate. As inflation has soared close to double-digit rates, with no war or speculative boom or oil shortage to blame it on, deficit spending has come to be viewed as the fiscal mortal sin leading inexorably to inflationary damnation. The legislatures of 22 states have called for a constitutional amendment that would require a balanced budget every year. Amendment or not, that would be impossible, since no Administration could predict future revenues and expenditures accurately enough. It is also undesirable. There are circumstances in which...