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...Public corruption is based on our society's values of materialism, power and wealth," said Arnold M. Soloway, Special Advisor to the Governor on Fiscal Affairs, and visiting professor of Economics at Boston College Graduate School. Citizens should accept this assumption of values, he continued, and "put materialism to work" to attract better men to public office...
Within this value system, Soloway said, higher salaries for state legislators, the governor, teachers and other public officials would lend more prestige, more respect to their positions...
...Purity we can never have," Soloway told a Ford Forum audience; "the main thing is to reduce the impact of corruption in our state until it is tolerable...
...many, Powers' position seemed poorly supported. But others, such as Arnold M. Soloway, assistant professor of Economics and a member of Powers' "brain trust," doubt that Boston would, in the long-run, benefit from the sales tax revenue. "The city is like a sponge," Soloway says. If Boston got a windfall from the state, various groups of city employees would pressure for wage raises; this patronage pressure would soon soak up the additional funds meant for easing the tax burden...
...additional funds from the outside can help Boston," Soloway believes, "and any lasting relief must come by means of internal reform within the city itself...