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...Bite. Most taxpayers will begin to feel the measure's impact by mid-July. Because the increase for individuals is retroactive only to April 1, the increased bite for 1968 will really amount to 7½% (example: the $10,000-a-year man with wife and two children who paid $1,100 in taxes last year will pay an added $83.25 in 1968). Corporations, liable for the increase as of last Jan. 1, will pay the full additional 10% in taxes. Though the surcharge is supposed to run to next June 30, nobody would be surprised if it were...
U.C.L.A.: Bruin with a Bite...
...this point, the President attacked the bill's opponents in his now-famous "bite the bullet" press conference. While his leaden language irritated many, it did make clear that a tax rise is the key to continued prosperity and the stability of the dollar. The Senate and House conferees eventually agreed, but -largely as a result of their annoyance at the President's blunt words-only at the $6 billion price the conservatives had demanded. With the stability of the economy at stake, Johnson can hardly refuse to go along, but he cannot take much pleasure...
...shantytowns?romantic to the suburbanite, but symptomatic of scant heat and pinchgut rations to the poor; the bags of flour delivered by a well-meaning welfare agency, in a household that has no oven; the pervasive odor of human urine and rat droppings in perennially damp walk-ups; the bite of wind or snow through a wall of rotten bricks and no hope that the landlord will repair the crack. Poverty is the certainty of being gouged?particularly by one's own kind. For if the poor share anything it is oppressors: credit dentists and credit opticians; credit furniture stores...
...Bark & Bite. Mailer indulges his hero with a splendid deadpan pomposity, reinforced by the fact that he refers to himself throughout in the third person. The reader first meets him in his Brook lyn Heights apartment, picking up a ringing telephone as if it were a pistol loaded for Russian Roulette. "On impulse, thereby sharpening his instinct as a gambler, he took spot plunges: once in a while he would pick up his own phone. On this morning in September, 1967, he lost his bet." The caller is a militant antiwar organizer and old Harvard classmate, who extracts from Mailer...