The Virtues Of Incentive The Lawmakers

WHEN THE HISTORY of the 95th Congress is written, it should be recorded as a time when our lawmakers rediscovered the social virtues of incentive.

Such appears to be the lesson emerging from the pulling and hauling that produced a tax bill in the House and is moving toward a like denouement in the Senate. While the bill approved in the lower chamber is far from perfect, omitting several features which would have made it appreciably better, it is by general consent the best thing to come out of Congress on this subject in upward of a decade. The critical factor in the package is, precisely, its pervasive emphasis on incentive.

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WHEN THE HISTORY of the 95th Congress is written, it should be recorded as a time when our lawmakers rediscovered the social virtues of incentive.

Such appears to be the lesson emerging from the pulling and hauling that produced a tax bill in the House and is moving toward a like denouement in the Senate. While the bill approved in the lower chamber is far from perfect, omitting several features which would have made it appreciably better, it is by general consent the best thing to come out of Congress on this subject in upward of a decade. The critical factor in the package is, precisely, its pervasive emphasis on incentive.