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There are other arguments in favor of a national sales tax. Its yield is easy to predict, and at the manufacturer's level would be relatively easy to collect (only 300,000 outlets need be policed). Such a 10% tax (equal to a 5% tax at retail) would just about make up the $8 billion the Government will lose by the expiration of present taxes. It would also broaden the tax base so that the 25 million wage earners who now pay no federal income tax would share some of the tax burden...
Scale of Values. In Toledo, police arrested (and later acquitted) Fortuneteller Addie D. Heller, 40, for charging $1 to predict the future, $5 to reveal lucky lottery numbers, $10 for surefire advice on how to get a husband...
Result: U.S. antique dealers are hard pressed. Sales at Manhattan's big Parke-Bernet Galleries are off $1,600,000 from last season's $5,727,759. Smaller dealers are even harder hit. Some predict that the next five years will see half of Manhattan's once flourishing antique shops close their doors...
...police power to upset any armistice, even if the ROK army should obey the U.N. instead of its President-which last week seemed entirely unlikely. Said a U.S. official in Seoul last week: "Rhee is a radical revolutionary. His actions prove that we just can't try to predict what he is going to do in terms of what is sensible. He has proved that he is capable of going to any end to get what he wants." Not all Koreans felt the same way. This week Chough Pyung Ok, leader of the only permitted opposition party, spoke...
...officer who probably was praised more highly than any other during the maneuvers was Colonel Dwight D. Eisenhower, 50-year-old Texan, a red-faced, trigger-brained officer who was made a brigadier general a day or two after the maneuvers had ended . . . Well-informed Army men predict that Eisenhower will be a major general within six months...