Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: I am so outraged and appalled that my mind is spluttering! Your article "Why Tax Reform Is So Urgent and So Unlikely" [April 4] should be read and reread by every middle-income citizen of the U.S. All these years, while my husband and I and our two daughters have been trying to keep within our means so that we can pay our bills and taxes as good citizens, we have been taken...
...Sir: Perhaps the money given generously to charity (and providing a tax deduction) was used to set up a scholarship program for needy college students, or perhaps the gift went to fight cancer or heart disease...
...Sir: Let's be honest. A tax break is an exemption when it applies to us and a loophole when it applies to others...
...Sir: It is slanderous to state that "because of federal limitations on logging operations and poor forest-management techniques, the Government's holdings yield only a quarter as much timber per acre as private timberland" [March 28]. The Forest Service has led the way in forest management. The national forests lend the only stability that exists in the timber industry, and on the poorest sites for timber production. The private timberlands, thanks to the generous land giveaways of the 1800s, are of deep, rich soils in the lowlands, while the national forests embrace the rugged mountain ranges that have...
...Sir: Re "Where Auto Defects Come From" [March 28]: And all this time we have been blaming poor old General Motors for the year-old junkheap parked in our drive. Blaming them for the stuck accelerator, which has given us such a hair-raising ride at least a dozen times (and which, of course, was "fixed" each time by their mechanic). Blaming them for the water that pours in each time it rains. (After the mechanic "fixed" the leak with at least a gallon of tar.) Even blaming them for the backfiring, running hot, the gear lever falling off, emergency...