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Fighting the Public Concience
popular support for tax reduction,
lie is not at his best.
Why should he find it necessary
to convince his countrymen they
should support tax reduction? Pol
iticians grow up at the ward boss's
knee believing tax reduction is the
best vote bait in existence.
Rank and file voters are supposed
to be helpless when tax reduction
is dangled in front of their eyes.
Taxes are never popular. One of
the prime political axions, used
through' generations of applied pol
itics, is: VVote for all spending and
against all taxing.”
But tax reduction in 1963 does
not find rank and tile voters snap
ping at the bait. A most unusual
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e recession it was supposed to
off has failed to materialize.
The Wall Street Journal reported
in its September 18 edition that the
“current business upswing displays
a remarkable immunity to the rav
ages of time.”
The tsbc relief it was designed to
give has been interesting but not
irresistible to masses of taxpayers
supposed to be hyterical about tax
relief. It is as if the ordinary run
of people had looked.at the array
of household appliances mentioned
by Mr. Kennedy in his appeal for
support and' said they intended to
emplo
ing
second p
cut would put
President
about a tt
zled by the
posal has rece
Has he not hi
outstanding be
not made it plain _
nancing — spending excess of in
come to stimulate expansion — is
sophisticated business practice?
One misgiving sticks in the pop
ular craw. Millions of people who
have been taught to live within
their incomes cannot understand
why there should be different rules
for the Federal Government.
be in the neighborhood
lion. , 1
the defense approp.
proval comes at a time i
in Viet Nam spell out
of the world in which we live and
the tremendous commitment sehfch
we have undertaken around the face
of the: earth.
Moreover, the frustrating events
of $53 bil
crates in
ported that suggestion which was
not adopted. Recent reports of con
flicting policies being pursued by
the CIA and the State Department
in Viet Nam emphasize anew that
Congressional committee supervis
ion of the CIA is still a meritorious
refonn measwe. v :,
SILENT SHOPPER T
j Emily Warren of 403'North Davis
Street was arregted last week and
charged with shoplifting in Green’s
ten cent store.
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