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...radicalism, Reagan's plan calls for something much less than a repeal of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, let alone Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Among the spending programs that Reagan picked as targets, only a few would be axed completely; most of the others would not only continue but would grow, albeit more slowly. Indeed, total federal spending and tax collections would both rise, propelled by the inexorable forces of population and business growth, and an inflation that may diminish but will not go away. Total federal expenditures, by Reagan's own figure, would rise...
...example, that the Soviets encouraged Libya's Muammar Gaddafi in his recent annexation of the central African nation of Chad. Libya has long been a conduit for Soviet arms to the Palestine Liberation Organization, as well as revolutionary groups in the Philippines, Chile and Turkey. Congress should repeal or amend legislation that limits the ability of the CIA to conduct clandestine operations abroad...
...Alaska Supreme Court last September agreed that it was discriminatory to tax only those Alaskans who had filed returns for fewer than three years. Consequently, later that month, the legislature revised the repeal-and-rebate law. The new version repeals income taxes for everyone and gives refunds to those who paid 1979 and 1980 taxes. As for the other law, the court approved it, noting that it was fair compensation for the harsh conditions and high prices endured by earlier settlers. Unappeased, the Zobels promptly got a stay of this second decision from the U.S. Supreme Court, which...
...Rescission is the repeal of an appropriation for federal spending. Deferral is the delay in spending already appropriated money...
Michael Capuano, legal counsel to the House Taxation Committee, said yesterday he knows of no bill to repeal the tax-cutting Proposition 2 1/2 outright, but that all sorts of amendments have been proposed...