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16,451
ery high, we might channel specific uh targeted job - job - uh opportunities by paying part of the salary of unemployed people - uh and also sharing with uh - local governments the uh - payment of salaries which would uh - let us cut down the unemployment rate much lower, before we hit the inflationary level.
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16,452
But I believe that by the end of the first four years of uh - of the next term we could have the unemployment down to 3 percent adult unemployment, which is about uh - 4 to 4 and a half percent overall uh controlled inflation rate and have a uh balance of growth of about - uh 4 to 6 percent, around 5 percent which woul...
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16,454
Yes, in unemployment that is likely to create additional pressure on prices, how willing are you to consider an incomes policy, in other words, wage and price controls?
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16,458
But with tax incentives for the low-income groups we could build up their uh - income levels uh - above the poverty level and not uh make welfare more uh - profitable than - than work.
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16,462
That legislation uh allegedly would help our unemployment, but uh - we all know that it would've controlled our economy, it would've added uh - ten to thirty billion dollars each year in additional expenditures by the Federal Government.
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16,465
We could add to jobs in the major metropolitan areas by a proposal that I recommended that would give tax incentives to business to move into the inner city and to expand or to build new plants so that they would take a plant, or expand a plant where people are, and people are currently unemployed.
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16,474
I said at the time that we had to hold the lid an federal spending, that for every dollar of a tax reduction we had to have an equal reduction in federal expenditures - a one-for-one proposition.
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16,478
But if we keep the lid on federal spending, which I think we can - with the help of the Congress, we can justify fully a $28 billion tax reduction.
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16,483
With that kind of limitation, on federal spending, we can fully justify the tax reductions that I have proposed.
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16,484
And it seems to me with the stimulant of more money in the hands of the taxpayers, and with more money in the hands of business to expand, to modernize, to provide more jobs, our economy stimulated so that we'll get more revenue and we'll have a more prosperous economy.
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16,488
That tax bill does not entirely meet the criteria that I established.
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16,490
And Congress could have done that if the budget committees of the Congress, and the Congress as a whole, had not increased the spending that I recommended in the budget.
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16,493
Now this tax bill - that hasn't reached the White House yet, but is expected in a day or two - it's about fifteen hundred pages.
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16,494
It has some good provisions in it.
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16,495
It has - uh left out some that I have recommended, unfortunately.
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16,500
The present tax structure is a disgrace to this country; it's just a welfare program for the rich.
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16,505
The whole philosophy of the Republican party, including uh - my opponent, has been to pile on taxes on low-income people to take 'em off on the corporations.
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16,508
And this is what the Republicans have done to us.
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16,519
I believe that we ought to have a balanced budget during normal economic circumstances.
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16,546
I've heard of those dividends in the past; it always happens.
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16,547
We expected one at the time of the Vietnam War, but it was used up before we ever ended the war and taxpayers never got the adequate relief they deserved.
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16,557
Now in the case of Mr. Nixon, the reason the - the pardon was given, was that, when I took office this country was in a very, very divided condition.
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16,567
Well, Mr. Carter has uh indicated that uh - he would give a blanket pardon to all uh - draft evaders.
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16,568
I do not agree with that point of view.
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16,570
I think we gave them a good opportunity - we're - I don't think we should go any further.
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16,575
Amnesty means that - that you uh - that what you did was right.
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16,578
I think it's accurate to say that in uh - two years ago when Mr. Nixon - Mr. Ford put in this uh amnesty that three times as many deserters were uh - excused as were - as were the uh - the ones who evaded the draft.
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16,580
We've got a - a sharp distinction drawn between white collar crime - the - the - the big shots who are rich, who are influential uh very seldom go to jail; those who are poor and - and who have uh no influence - uh quite often are the ones who are punished.
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16,581
And - and the whole uh subject of crime is one that concerns our people very much, and I believe that the fairness of it is - is what - uh - is a - is a major problem that addresses our - our leader and this is something that hasn't been addressed adequately by - by this administration.
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16,582
But I - I hope to have a complete uh responsibility on my shoulders to help bring about a - a fair uh - criminal justice system and also to - to bring about uh - an end to the - to the divise- divisiveness that has occurred in our country uh as a result of the Vietnam War.
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16,587
Well, I've been through this before, Mr. Gannon, as the governor of Georgia.
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16,592
It hasn't been undone since I was there.
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16,593
It resulted also in an ability to reshape our court system, our prison system, our education system, our mental health programs and - and a clear assignment of responsibility and - and authority and also to have uh our people once again understanding control our government.
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16,598
That has escalated now to sixteen and a half million dollars, in the last uh Republican administration.
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16,599
This needs to be changed.
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16,601
We also need to have a great reduction in agencies and programs.
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16,603
Medicaid's in one agency; Medicare is in a different one.
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16,604
The - the check on the quality of health care is in a different one.
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16,605
None of them uh are responsible for health care itself.
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16,614
It took me about three years to completely reorganize the Georgia government.
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16,618
For instance, we uh - completely revised our prison system.
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16,620
And we shifted people out of administrative jobs into the field to deliver better services.
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16,621
The same thing will be done uh - at the federal government level.
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16,627
If we don't, the bureaucratic mess is going to continue.
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16,629
There's no way to get the answer to a question.
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16,637
He testified, and these are his words - the present governor of Georgia - he says he found the Medicaid program in Georgia in shambles.
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16,653
The net result is we are going to have some improvement in our receipts.
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16,655
We expect to have a lower deficit in fiscal year 1978.
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16,656
We feel that with this improvement in the economy; we feel with more receipts and fewer disbursements we can in a moderate way increase, as I recommended, over the next ten years a new parks program that would cast a billion and a half dollars, doubling our national park system.
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16,659
We believe that we can uh do a better job in the area of crime, but that requires a tougher sentencing, mandatory certain prison sentences for those who violate our criminal laws.
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16,660
We - uh believe that uh you can revise the federal criminal code, which has not been revised in a good many years.
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16,662
We believe that you can uhh - do something more effectively with a moderate increase in money in the drug abuse program.
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16,672
We will have the lower rate of inflation for the uh - calendar year this year - something slightly under 6 percent.
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16,673
Employment will be up, revenues will be up.
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16,675
Now I cannot, and would not, endorse the kind of program that uh - Governor Carter recommends.
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16,678
Those programs you cannot afford and give tax relief.
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16,682
In the last three months before an election, they're always for the programs that they always fight the other three-and-one-half years.
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16,683
Uh - I remember when uh - Herbert Hoover was against uh - jobs for people.
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16,685
The best thing to do is to look at the record uh - of Mr. Ford's Administration and Mr. Nixon's before his.
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16,688
We've also got uh - a comparison between himself and Mr. Nixon.
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16,693
This is the kind of record that's there and talk about the future and a drastic change or conversion on the part of Mr. Ford as of last minute is one that just doesn't go.
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16,703
We have seen uh - the Federal Energy Agency established, for instance.
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16,708
In addition to that, we need to have - uh a realization that we've got uh about thirty-five years worth of oil left in the whole world.
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16,714
We need to concentrate our research and development effort on uh coal burning and extraction, with safer mines, but also it's clean burning.
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16,715
We need to shift very strongly toward solar energy and have strict conservation measures.
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16,717
I would certainly uh - not cut out atomic power altogether.
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16,718
We can't afford to give up that opportunity until later.
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16,721
There ought to be a standardized design.
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16,724
So, shift from oil to coal, emphasize research and development on coal use and also on solar power, strict conservation measures, not yield every time that the special interest groups uh - put pressure on the president like uh this administration has done, and use atomic energy only as a last resort with the strictest ...
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16,729
We uh - now encourage people to waste electricity, and uh - by giving uh - the lowest rates to the biggest users.
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16,730
We don't do anything to cut down on peak load requirements.
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16,731
We don't have an adequate requirement for the insulation of homes, for the efficiency of automobiles.
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16,733
In addition to that, we ought to have a - a shift toward the use of coal, particularly in the Appalachian regions where the coal is located.
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16,734
A lot of uh - very high quality, low-carbon coal, uh - low-sulfur coal is there, it's where our employment is needed.
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16,735
Uh - this would - would help a great deal.
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16,738
And also the private sector ought to be encouraged to - to bring forward to the public the benefits from efficiency.
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16,739
One bank in uh - Washington, fo- for instance, gives lower interest loans for people who adequately insulate their homes or who buy efficient automobiles.
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16,741
These kinds of things uh - ought to be done, uh they ought to be encouraged and supported, and even required uh by the government, yes.
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16,744
In January of uh - 1975 I submitted to the Congress and to the American people the first comprehensive energy program recommended by any president.
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16,745
It called for an increase in the production of energy in the United States.
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16,748
I recommended to the Congress that we should increase production in this country from six hundred million tons a year to twel- a- a billion two hundred million tons by 1985.
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16,752
We're going as fast as the experts say we should.
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16,754
I think you have to have greater oil and gas production, more coal production, more nuclear production, and in addition you have to have energy conservation.
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16,760
The bills that I vetoed, the one for an additional $6 billion, was not a bill that would have solved our unemployment problems.
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16,762
Our analysis indicates that something in the magnitude of about one hundred fifty to two hundred thousand jobs would uh - be made available.
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16,765
They would not have materialized for about nine to eighteen months.
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16,767
What we have done is to hold the lid on spending in an effort to reduce the rate of inflation.
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16,771
We've added five hundred thousand jobs in the last two months.
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16,775
It's my - my opinion that the private sector, where five out of six jobs are, where you have permanent jobs, with the opportunity for advancement, is a better place than make-work jobs under the program recommended by the Congress.
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16,788
And therefore, it seems to me that we should hold the lid, as we have, to the best of our ability so we can stimulate the private economy and get the jobs where the jobs are - five out of six in this economy.
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16,792
And I said, "How many uh - adults here are out of work?"
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16,822
Over 50 percent - 53 to be exact - percent of the tax benefits go to the 14 percent richest people in this country, and we've had a 50 percent increase in payroll deductions since Mr. Nixon went in office eight years ago.
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16,824
That's got to be changed.
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16,827
Not only that, but it robs this country of jobs, because instead of coming back with that million dollars and creating a shoe factory, say in New Hampshire or Vermont, if the company takes the money down to Italy and - and builds a shoe factory, they don't have to pay any taxes on the money.
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16,834
Uh - another system is where uhh - a dentist can invest money in say, raising cattle and uh - can put in a hundred thousand dollars of his own money, borrow nine hundred thousand dollars - nine hundred mi- thousand dollars - that makes a million - and mark off a great amount of uh - of loss uh - through that procedure.
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16,837
Well, these special kinds of programs have - have robbed the average taxpayer and have benefited those who are powerful, and who can employ lobbyists, and who can have their CPAs and their lawyers to help them benefit from the roughly uh - eight thousand pages of the tax code.
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16,838
The average uh American person can't do it.
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16,848
No, I wouldn't do away with all - uh business deductions.
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16,855
It's to make sure that everybody pays taxes on the income that they earn and make sure that you take whatever savings there is from the higher income levels and give it to the lower- and middle-income families.
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16,861
They have been short-changed as we have taken ten million taxpayers off the tax rolls in the last eight years, and as we have uh - added to the minimum tax uh - provision to make all people pay more taxes.
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