Intriguing Speculations On Private Car Future
John Barbour surveys how American business sees the private car evolving as energy policy looms. Executives from The Signal Companies American Motors and others discuss smaller, specialized vehicles, potential electric urban cars, and a future with less long-distance private travel, plus higher energy costs and expanded mass transit.
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Views Expected This Week Carter Administration Faces Problem Of Pumping Up Social Security Funds
The Carter era plans to propose using income tax revenues to finance Social Security and to broaden employer payroll taxation. Trustees say benefits exceeded payrolls last year, signaling red ink and looming depletion of Disability and Old Age funds by the 1980s. Decoupling and tax changes are discussed to avert a 20 percent payroll drain mid century amid longer lifespans and a shrinking workforce.
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