Runaway Tax Sparks Social Security Tax Dilemma
Economists alarmed by rising Social Security payroll tax and benefits urge a shift to a financing system that reflects workers’ limited ability to absorb higher deductions. The tax has grown faster than any other since WWII, exceeding one fifth of 1972 U.S. tax revenue, with future benefits and cost pressures projected to intensify.
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Brookings Institution
John A. Brittain
U.S
Congress
U.S. News and World Report
Almanac of March 17 highlights from history
On March 17 1776 British troops evacuated Boston ending seven months siege. 1836 saw a loyalist city bombardment, Barcelona referenced ambiguously. 1959 Tibetan Dalai Lama fled to safety. 1970 US vetoed UN resolution on Rhodesia. 1960s leaders and events faded, with Costa Rica trip by President and Latin American meetings noted.
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Boston
Redcoats
Bunker
Barcelona
National Gallery of Art
Looking Back Thirty Years Ago in March 1943
Bill Holm was cast as Seaman Marmion in Mister Roberts. Aviation Cadet Jack Bradley completed preflight training and began advanced training at a school.
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Bill Holm
Seaman Marmion
Jack Bradley
Lying ‘School
Nixon and Connally press 1976 GOP prospects from the White House
Nixon pursues Connally for 1976 while projecting dominance over Congress and party. Kennedy looms as Democratic front runner with Agnew’s future unclear as aides reportedly curb the vice president's influence. Nixon may see Connally as best counter to Kennedy and as running mate options fade.
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NEA
Nixon
Treasury
John Connally
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Congress
Capitol Hill
GOP
Connally
Ser
Edward Kennedy
Kennedy Ihag
Kennedy
Spiro Agnew
Agnew
Ite
White House
Congress Divided Over Postwar Indochina Aid Survey
Congressional Quarterly surveys reveal split views among lawmakers on postwar aid to Indochina. Remarks from Representatives Dickinson Hansen McCloskey Fisher Harrington Daniels and Senator McClellan illustrate divisions over funding sources multilateral channels domestic program cuts and the aim of aid for peaceful reconstruction versus continuing hostilities.
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James G. Phillips
Congressional Quarterly
Washington
Hell
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South
Vietnam
William L. Dickinson
R. Ala
Thieu
Julia Butler Hansen
D Wash
House Appropriations Interior Subcommittee
Paul N. McCloskey Jr
Calif
Congress
Capitol Hill
Indochina
North Vietnam
United Nations
United States
Senate Appropriations
South Vietnam
Rep
O.C. Fisher
Texas
Michael J. Harrington
D Mass
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Dominck
Daniels
DNJP
Len Harold E Hughes
Iowa
Senate Armed Services Committee
Hughes
The Hunt for Truth in a Cold War Debate
The article surveys early Cold War views on Marxism and U S policy in Indochina. It cites Rep James Symington and Sen Claiborne Pell among others, weighing domestic program impacts, aid conditions, and multilateral versus bilateral approaches. It notes caution from lawmakers about linking aid to domestic spending.
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America
James W Symington
D Mo
Symington
North Vietnam
House Armed Services Committee
Ae Feteti
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Laos
House Foreign Affairs
Senate Foreign Relations Committees
Tnat
Jacob K. Javits
Rin Y
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Indochina
Southeast Asia
Mekong
George D. Aiken
Peuecar
Clement J Zablockd
Wis
House
Claiborne Pell
DRL
Congress
Japan
China
Asia
J. Herbert Burke
Rfla
World loudest insect and oddities gathered from notes
The male cicada is the loudest insect with声音 detectable over a quarter mile. The odds of drawing a regal flush are 619 739 to 1. San Francisco Bank of America is the largest commercial bank. Central Park in New York spans acres. High Point claims furniture capital status. Hawaii is the only state with a coffee industry.
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Bank of America
Omon
Hawaii
Economic views on markets and government control
The piece argues that humans err in planning and that free markets better allocate resources for heat, food, and energy. It contrasts government price controls on gas and food with the incentives of producers in a market system, noting how consumer choice and accountability curb risks like botulism while socialist planning would erode variety and trust.
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Federal Power Commission
Horpibess
Horpibess For His Job; Ees
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