Word: programming
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...segregationist." Warming to his task, this former electrical contractor explains that mixing the races will never work because "you cannot make unequal people equal." His philosophical cards on the table, Wilkinson's job becomes easier--his only remaining task is to suggest the future course of public policy. His program includes the shooting of Cuban refugees in the water, voting for Ronald Reagan, and putting pressure on President Carter to refer to Blacks as "niggers" in public...
...should "get on the Klan van" by sending in $6 and organizing "White Youth in every school along racial lines," adopting "a get-tough policy with arrogant non-Whites," and forcing school administrators to offer "White Cultural" classes. The program ends like this: "We want segregation of classes, followed by eventual segregation of schools...
...working "with mirrors." Jimmy Carter derisively charged that his schemes would so deplete the Treasury that the Government could not afford to keep even "the night watchman at the Lincoln Memorial." Through it all, Ronald Reagan fed the doubts by refusing to spell out what kind of economic program he had in mind beyond his seemingly impossible promise to lower taxes, increase military spending and balance the budget. Last week, finally, he supplied some of the details of his proposals and produced a kind of five-year plan for capitalism that was far more coherent and defensible than the impression...
LOWER TAXES. The heart of the program is, as before, a 30% slash in personal income tax rates, 10% in each of the next three years-the so-called Kemp-Roth formula. Beginning in the fourth year, tax rates also would be "indexed," i.e., tied to inflation rates so that only a rise in income greater than the rise in prices would push a taxpayer into a higher bracket. Business taxes would be reduced by speeding up the depreciation write-offs that companies could take for modernizing their plant and equipment. Cost to the Treasury: $22 billion in fiscal...
...school program has also been severely limited. "I decided to drop out and become an engineer," one former law school student said, "when they cut Plato out of our courses. Anyway, who'd want to be a lawyer in this lawless country...