Volume 18, Number 8 · May 4, 1972
George McGovern: On Taxing & Redistributing Income
By George McGovern, Wassily Leontief
George McGovern's proposals for tax reform and redistribution of income, originally released in January and published here in slightly revised form, should be read and reread by every one of the more than one hundred million Americans who dropped in the mailbox last Saturday or Sunday, with mixed feelings of civic pride and desperation, their income tax returns for 1971. McGovern's brief statement contains more hard common sense and practical wisdom than the tired platitudes and inconclusive technical disquisitions that fill the 300 pages of the President's Economic Report, which was transmitted to the Congress a few days after Senator McGovern made his program public.
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