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r\ ‘ f SENATOR SAM ERVIN « £117 * j After two weeks of debate, the Senate voted lost week to re peal the Presidential Campaign Fund Act of 1966 which allows a taxpayer to pay a dollar with his Federal income tax return for the Presidential campaign v of major political parties. During the debate, the Senate reduced the dollar contribution to fifty cents, and then defeat ed the whole plan. The matter , now goes to the House for its conj&dOratton. Defeat of the Act came by virtue of a Senate rider - to the seven percent investment credit bill currently under Con gressional consideration. I voted to repeal the Presi dential campaign financing act, because I think the legislation is / impractical in administration and has many flaws which de feat its stated objectives of im proving election financing. The legislation was enacted in haste at the end of the last Congress. It is vague and diffi cult to administer. It will not correct the evils it seeks to con quer Oven under the most opti mistic view of the legislation. Simply stated, the 1966 Act is said to be a means of permit ting every man and woman to become a candidate for Presi dent. In practice, the Act does not permit this. It does not touch Presidential nomination costs. Nowadays securing the Presi dential nomination of a major political party costs a fantastic sum and often the candidate spends large amounts of money over a period of years to get well enough known to be a realistic contender for the nom ination. To date, no one has de vised a means whereby the Fed eral Government could dispense tax funds to every potential can didate for the Presidency and not bankrupt the Treasury. The Act has dther major de fects. It would give whatever amounts the taxpayers contri bute under its provisions to po litical parties that received 5 million or more votes at the last Presidential election. In prac tice, thi6 would likely mean that monies collected would go to the democratic and Republican par ties, but it could mean that funds might go to the Commun ist or Socialist parties. Taxpayers are unlikely to do nate by the millions to such an unregulated fund. Moreover, most Americans have strong opinions about who shall re ceive their political contribu tions. They usually do not want the opposition party to have half of their contribution. Yet, the Act dispenses the contribution to each major political party McGUFFEY IN BOOT CAMP Seaman Recruit James M. Mc Guffey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam uel P. McGuffey of 2318 Wood view Road, Kinston, is undergo ing nine weeks of basic training at the Naval Training Center at San Diego. No Meu — No Waiting — Oar Ready-Mixed Concrete Is on the Job When You Need It. Also Sand, Gravel and Crashed Stone. Barrus Ready Mixed Concrete Company Free Estimates — New Bern Highway, Kinston, N. C. Frosty Mom Meats Inc. a better Livestock North Carolina » Calumet Farms, Ky.—Visions of roses dance in the heads of these four three-year-old candi dates for May Kentucky Derby honors at Churchill Downs as they give an inquisitive once over to the newest “equine’' three-year-old, the Ford Mustang. The most popular new car of all time, the Mustang’s third birthday is this April. The colts and fillies are (from left to right) Hugable by Warfare out of Lap Full by Bull Lea; Little Friend by Bull Imp out of Midsummer Fair by Big Game; Mademoiselle by Choquette out of Nashua Real by Bull Lea, and Tim’s Princess by Tim Tam out of Princess Turin by Heliopolis. A fifth pair of ears, visible behind Mademoiselle, belong to the colt, Nippy, who was anxious to lead his paddock mates on a romp over the bluegrass. and not according to the taxpay er’s personal notion. There is no assurance that the distribution of federal tax funds to the chairman of the two major political parties will make democracy work any bet ter than it operates under vol untary contributions, for such a federal system could dispense with reliance by the parties up on local opinions about the cam paign and the candidates. A federal bureaucracy doling j out dollars to national political I parties could create parties that reflected no individuality or re sponsible mandate from the peo pie. Many who have studied the “Long check-off campaign fin ancing plan” feel that it does little to solve the problems of campaign financing or permit ting candidates to represent the broader interests of the people. Few doubt that campaign fin ancing needs a general overhaul, but there should be a better al ternative than that of perpetuat ing the 1966 Act which solves little and probably will ac complish less. JARMAN FUNERAL HOME . . . Where Your Trust Is Sacred And Your Wishes Cared For . . . Dial JA 3-5143 Kinston, N. C. Take the Mustang Pledge. Get bucket gm*. seats, stick shift, whitewalls, tool
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