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...Baltimore, Washington, San Antonio, New Orleans and other cities, protesters have challenged about 200 highway projects. Commuter groups complain that too much is spent on highways and not enough on mass transit. Civil rights groups complain that new highways cut down old urban neighborhoods. Environmentalists complain that the highways, by stimulating auto travel, aggravate air pollution. Protests are rising in Congress. Says Senator Lowell P. Weicker Jr., Connecticut Republican: "It is inconceivable that we have hundreds of thousands protesting the war, but we placidly accept 55,000 highway deaths a year...
Lindsay had entered office on the wrong note in 1966 when he refused to negotiate with Mike Quill, the head of the Transit Workers' Union, who had been threatening a strike for 30 years but had always settled. Lindsay's recalcitrance led Quill to call a TWU strike, for which he ended up in jail. Quill then suffered a heart attack in jail, dying shortly thereafter and leaving Lindsay with a reputation as a silk-stockings man who didn't know how to deal with labor...
...collects, apportions and spends tax money. But for the moment, the taxpayer revolt is only tightening an already merciless squeeze on the budgets of most of the nation's 81,299 governmental units. At a time when public officials should be planning to finance the pollution-control, mass-transit and slum-rebuilding programs of the future, they are having to struggle to stretch present revenues to cover immediate spending needs. Increasingly, they are failing...
...budget squeeze will probably become even worse later in the 1970s. Lawrence S. Ritter, professor of finance at New York University, calculates that during the rest of the decade, public spending will have to average $46 billion a year above 1970 levels for just four purposes: rebuilding mass-transit systems, cleaning up pollution, upgrading law enforcement and improving education. Spending needs would rise even more if the U.S. decided to rebuild its cities or start a nationwide system of low-cost health care, as it should. There is no excuse for the world's richest nation to rank 13th...
...nations enjoy higher-quality health care, recreational facilities, mass transit and many other services than the U.S. does. Japan is the only major industrial nation where taxes account for a smaller share of G.N.P. (16%) than they do in the U.S., at least partly because Japan's tax system was designed by American occupation authorities after World...