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Qualms about the President’s China move aren’t confined to the Right. In a televised interview in New York, veteran China Hand and McCarthy martyr O. Edmund Clubb raised the question why the devil didn’t we get anything in return. And John B. Oakes, former senior editor of the New York Times, complained that we have betrayed Taiwan and shaken our allies and dependents, from Europe to the Mideast to Japan. Mr. Oakes confessed to “a sense of humiliation if not degradation” about Mr. Carter’s action.

Those difficult people strike again. In 1976, Professor Colin Campbell and his wife Rosemary did a study showing that, lo, New Hampshire taxes were remarkably small compared with those of other states, but that, lo, New Hampshire public services were about the same. How inconvenient. Wait, here’s the rebuttal. New Hampshire depends excessively on the property tax! The Campbells, in a new study, reply: New Hampshire’s per capita property tax is $348. The average for the six New England states is $382. New Hampshire’s property taxes run 6.5 per cent of personal income. The average for New England is 6.4 per cent. New Hampshire has no income tax. Damned inconvenient, these facts. If you want the full report, you can get it from The Wheelbarrow Foundation, Liberty Lane, Hampton, N.H. 03842.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

Qualms about the President’s China move aren’t confined to the Right. In a televised interview in New York, veteran China Hand and McCarthy martyr O. Edmund Clubb raised the question why the devil didn’t we get anything in return. And John B. Oakes, former senior editor of the New York Times, complained that we have betrayed Taiwan and shaken our allies and dependents, from Europe to the Mideast to Japan. Mr. Oakes confessed to “a sense of humiliation if not degradation” about Mr. Carter’s action.

Those difficult people strike again. In 1976, Professor Colin Campbell and his wife Rosemary did a study showing that, lo, New Hampshire taxes were remarkably small compared with those of other states, but that, lo, New Hampshire public services were about the same. How inconvenient. Wait, here’s the rebuttal. New Hampshire depends excessively on the property tax! The Campbells, in a new study, reply: New Hampshire’s per capita property tax is $348. The average for the six New England states is $382. New Hampshire’s property taxes run 6.5 per cent of personal income. The average for New England is 6.4 per cent. New Hampshire has no income tax. Damned inconvenient, these facts. If you want the full report, you can get it from The Wheelbarrow Foundation, Liberty Lane, Hampton, N.H. 03842.