Word: egalitarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amendment would undo almost a decade of egalitarian tax reform. The basic rule on capital gains has long been, and still is, that only half of them are subject to income tax; until 1969, the maximum tax on capital gains was 25%. But beginning in 1970, liberals who considered that tax rate to be an undue favor to the rich raised the maximum tax on the biggest capital gams reaped by individuals to 49.1%,* by far the highest rate in the industrial world; the top rate on corporate capital gains is 30%. Steiger would set the clock back to 1969?...
...label naivete, but what is your definition of naivete to be? I think one derives from Cambridge an intellectual curiosity and open-mindedness, a lack of preconceptions, that appears to be naive." What the graduates of 1928 were to do with this intellectual curiosity, however, accorded ill with the egalitarian, humanist principles expounded in the classrooms. Most of the professors, Bromage and many of her classmates maintain, had the assumption that their women students would meet good husbands, Harvard men perhaps--and what better fate than that? "It was unthought of that we should go out and do something...
...stupid to say that the name of the game is survival or security: the name of the game is universal redemption. For as long as I live, I shall be thrilled by all those who came to the Promised Land to turn it either into a pastoral paradise of egalitarian Tolstoyan communes, or into a well-educated, middle-class Central European enclave, a replica of Austria and Bavaria...
...losses for Carter among the usual Democratic constituencies-labor, liberals, blacks -and in large measure these losses must be due to his economic program. Despite the serious doubts about the old-fashioned Democratic remedies, these constituencies still by and large want bigger spending and a more, rather than less, egalitarian thrust-or at least they want the substitutes and alternatives to be painless. Instead of pushing dubious tax reforms and relying on feeble jawboning, Carter should be taking much stronger anti-inflation measures, especially budget cuts. But for all the widespread worry about inflation, it is doubtful whether these groups...
Mass is interpreted as a commitment to democratic and egalitarian principles. The object is to challenge the hierarchy of power epitomized by the nuclear establishment. There are no officers in Clamshell, and offices serve as communication centers, not decision-making ones. All meetings operate on consensus rather than majority vote...