Muskie charges well off reap benefit under new policy
Sen. Edmund S. Muskie charged the Nixon administration with late, wrong and unfair domestic policy. Speaking in Los Angeles at a Catholic Labor Institute breakfast, he accused the administration of shifting the inflation burden to average earners while letting the well off gain from tax cuts. He urged a wage price review board and outlined alternative tax and relief proposals. He criticized welfare reform delay and noted urban decline, poverty rise, and tax inequities.
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McGovern Calls Nixon Wage Price Freeze Unfair Policy
Senator George McGovern denounces the Nixon wage price freeze as the most unfair economic package, saying it favors corporations and rich alike. He urges selective enforcement and a mandatory dividend and profit freeze, criticizing the administration for harming workers and small businesses.
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Nixon
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Harris challenges Nixon to spread competition
Sen. Fred R. Harris of Oklahoma challenged President Nixon to back antitrust action to break up monopolies and restore real competition. He cited defense, steel, automobiles, aluminum, and containers as examples of firms that resist market pressures and raise prices.
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America
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Nixon stance on federal loan guarantees for Lockheed defense jobs
Harris argues that Nixon claims it is right for workers to compete for fewer jobs yet supports government intervention to bail out large corporations like Lockheed when they cannot compete freely. The remark frames a critique of selective intervention in the free enterprise system.
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Harris
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