Perry's Plan Lands in Voters Hands With Dividend Tax Idea
John Perry proposes giving every registered voter a yearly tax free 500 to 750 dollars funded by corporate taxes redirected from the Treasury. He envisions phased dividend payments, a federal spending moratorium, and a budget surplus within five years, backed by supporters including economists and business leaders.
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John Cunniff
New York
John Perry
Perry
Republican Party
Palm Beach, Fla
National Dividend Foundation, Inc
Palm Beach Gardens
Fla
Sunday Messenger staff and date details
The Sunday Messenger listing provides the newspaper’s address at Route 33 N and Johnson Road in Athens Ohio and a 1976 staff roster with roles for publisher general manager editor and advertising managers. The issue is dated Sunday August 29 1976.
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Johnson Rd
Athens
Ohio
Frederick W. Bush
Gordon K. Bush
Peanut program sparks debate over Carter era subsidies
The article critiques government peanut subsidies under the Carter era, noting 210 million dollars in subsidies this year and a 414 dollar per ton support price. It covers proposed cuts by Rep. Dawson Mathis and Sen. Herman Talmadge, plus Ford Administration aims to end controls, and contrasts world peanut prices with US prices. It mentions indirect Carter benefits and school lunch and Food for Peace uses.
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Jimmy Carter
Georgia
Carter
Ontario
House Agriculture Committee
Dawson Mathis
Senate Agriculture Committee
Herman Talmadge
Ford
Agriculture Department
Icero de: Sen Bidhemeen
Tecumaes
Letter to the Editor on Public Interest Standards
Signed letters to the editor on general topics are welcome. Include sender’s address and telephone number. The Messenger reserves the right to condense letters for space, readability and reader interest.
Sending Pothole Laws to Civil Servants
A political essay argues that civil servants like Plotkin control enforcement of laws such as pothole reform, noting bureaucrats may reinterpret statutes after lobbyist influence and avoid bold action to protect their careers. It questions accountability of non elected officials in shaping law implementation.
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Kansas’ City
United States
Congress
Plotkin
Washington
Maryland
Virginia
Army Corps of Engineers
Pothole Bill Delays Spark Bureau Moves and Political Fuss
Plotkin’s office is consumed by a struggle over new bureau quarters while a commission studies potholes. Negative feedback leads to scrapping the report, and the president’s pothole moment prompts a demand for progress.
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Plotkin
Congress
White House
Carter Race Tightens Nationally After GOP Convention
Gallup poll after the GOP gathering shows Carter at 44 percent to Ford 43 nationally, with Carter leading 49 to 39 outside the South. Ford gains outside the South shrink Carter's regional edge, while the South remains Carter territory. The survey notes undecided and lukewarm voters on both sides and potential shifts before election day.
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Princeton
N.J
South
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
Carter
Ford
Sen
Barry Goldwater
Lyndon Johnson
George Wallace
Alabama
Richard Nixon
Gallup survey shows lower Republican defection in 1974 race
The latest Gallup poll finds 14 percent of Ford supporters would back Carter, down from 20 percent in 1974. The analysis notes most voters remain uncertain, with non whites favoring Carter and women mirroring men, while college-educated voters show a close race.
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Johnson
Ford
Carter
Letters on pets and OSHA spark local debate
A reader urges using ads to place pets in good homes while another letters criticizes the OSHA program as government overreach. Donald Sudsina from New Versailles, Pa., cites union views and John Birch Society stance on reducing federal regulation.
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U.S. Steel
Duquesne
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSHA
The
John Birch Society
Donald R. Sudsina
New Versailles
Agnew and a Foundation's Sympathy for Palestinians
A columnist critiques Spiro Agnew's links to Education for Democracy, a 1971 Indiana founded group advocating more nuclear arms and Palestinian relief sympathy. The piece links the foundation to The Alternative magazine’s Baron von Kannon and editor R. Emmett Tyrrell, labeling the coverage McCarthyism.
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Agnew
Education For Democracy
Indiana
America
Soviet Union
Middle East
James Reston
James Michener
Foundation
Baron von Kannon
Indiana University
Kannon
The
Alternative
R. Emmett Tyrrell
Anti- Defamation League
West Sixth Street
Bloomington
Ind
Mencken
George Jean Nathan
Seymour Lipsett
Victor Gold
Aram Bakshian
Carter
Richard Pipes
Harvard
Solzhenitsyn
Miss Breasted
Field Marshal
von Kannon
University of Indiana
Spiro Agnew
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