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...Midwestern Revolt. The much-touted farm revolt barely affected Ike himself. In Minnesota's prosperous Deerfield township, for example, Ike was down by twelve percentage points from 1952-but he stood at a still healthy 64.5%. In Iowa, votes ranging up to 63% in well-to-do farm districts more than compensated for losses in drought-stricken areas. Eisenhower even won some low-income Kentucky farm districts that had gone for Stevenson by as much as 75% in 1952. Only in Missouri did Stevenson manage to stem the Eisenhower tide-and that state's reversal...
Galbraith cited the "highly regressive arrangement" of the present draft, charging that the system shifts the burden of military service from the "well-to-do taxpayer, who benefits from lower taxes, to the impecunious young draftee." This arrangement would not be tolerated in any other area, he felt...
...Towards Equality did not say. It left little doubt, however, about how it proposed to tackle "unjust" inequalities in wealth and income. In loving detail the pamphlet discussed the relative merits of a tax on expenditure rather than on income-Gaitskell has long been distressed by "the refusal of well-to-do taxpayers to react to high taxation [of income] by cutting down their standard of living"-and of collecting inheritance taxes in property rather than in cash, a device which would have the advantage of depriving the heirs of any eventual appreciation in property values...
...tends to mistrust the musical stage because it depends on so many people (but he yet may write an opera), and his orchestral works take too many rehearsals to be much performed. Nevertheless, he has no inclination to write for quick success. As the only son of a well-to-do Manhattan lace importer, he inherited an income, and, in addition, he has made a pleasant discovery: "The music I like to write turns out to be the most popular anyway...
...total Wisconsin rural vote, traditionally Republican, was down from the 1952 general election, principally because the weather was stormy and there were few exciting local contests on the ballots. In well-to-do farm counties, the Democratic percentage climbed moderately, e.g., in Jefferson County from 1952-3 33% to 37%. In the marginal farm areas and in some hog-raising areas, the Democratic vote climbed more sharply, e.g., in Iowa County from...