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on today's report from Washington, Senator Smathers discusses domestic and foreign problems of interest to the people of Florida and the nation. Now here is the first question. But yeah, and the nation. Now here is the first question. Well, senators matters now. We're between conventions, so to speak.

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It might be a good time to evaluate what this 88th Congress has done. Well, I think the 88th Congress as such has been a most constructive and useful Congress. I don't we won't have time on this particular program to go into all the things that have been accomplished, but just take on the committees of which I happen to sit Finance and Taxation Committee.

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We look what we've done with respect to the business, community loan, big business and small business and individuals. You get a tax cut this year of some $11,000,000,500 million. Eight billion of that's gone to individuals. Most of that tax cut with respect individuals has gone to people whose income is $7500 a year or less.

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But everybody has had a tax cut, and the economy has benefited by it. Senator. The other day, the president told you that he had some figures as to how much the individual had benefited. He's those figures, and by the time people see this program, I think he would have put the figures out.

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But he's going to show they're going to show that even after taxes, now that the overall income of everyone is $500 a year additional more than it was previously. And in this of course, we were already the wealthiest, most affluent country on the face of the globe.

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But this really puts his way out ahead of everyone else and demonstrates completely that this free enterprise system and when it's managed correctly, that it can really be beneficial to the people who have the good fortune to live under it. And now to go on with these other matters, we we've passed roughly an accelerated depreciation bill and an investment credit bill which allowed, which stimulated, which started this thing.

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We did this two years ago, which gave the business roughly about a billion $700 million. Ah, in addition to that, we have had another bill, Uh huh, which helps business by another billion dollars by a different tax approach so that all in all, it has succeeded in stimulating the economy, providing jobs.

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We've got more people working and we've ever had before at a higher salary, personal incomes higher than it's ever been corporate income times ever been dividend income times ever been? And so we actually, it's been a very useful Congress. One thing that you worked very hard for was this mass transit bill, which the president signed the other day.

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How is that going to affect Miami or Jackson? Well, it will affect it will enable the larger cities in the areas of where there is a concentrated population. It will enable them in time to join together with the federal government and local communities in the state communities in bringing about a solution to the transit problem.

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I would correct you. It's not something that I worked very hard for. As a matter of fact, at one time I was opposed to it, and we finally succeed in getting it amended substantially. And then I voted for it reluctantly after that. But nevertheless it's going to help the areas up north considerably and in time would be a benefit in Florida.

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I will confuse that with your elimination of the excise tax or the tax on railroads. That's what's right now. You didn't work very hard for that. We took that off. Of course, the railroads, airlines, buses, water carriers, everything else It was all kinds of transportation at which we took off the tax.

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What about the field of education? Now somebody has said that this would probably be the Congress, which would be known best as the Education Congress. I think that we have passed more legislation which will be in long range, beneficial to our education institutions of all degrees than any other Congress in history.

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We don't want to have federal control of local education, but we did pass considerable legislation which made it possible with state cooperation for universities and colleges to borrow money at very low rates of interest in order to increase their physical facilities. This has been done that made it possible for students who are deserving, who otherwise wouldn't have enough money to go to college to borrow money in order to do that.

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All in all, we have had a probably the most far reaching educational program adopted this Congress that has ever been adopted in the history of the nation. Thank you very much. Senator George Smathers. Two hours now and talk to from my mind, Jack Kennedy Memorial. Another book.

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Did you read that story and colour has wrote. Did you read it? Have you read the most recent? What do you think of it? Yeah, well, I need it. I don't think he's as good as the first one. What? Well, what she's trying to do. She She's got missing me.

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Now. It's a eulogy of Kennedy, which is good. I'm for you to judge, and I can't get hurt and eulogize now, but she's got a lot of He's got some junkie, for example, that she explains that he was just being nice to me. Only that really she said, in there the gas they didn't just to put me on nationwide.

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Tell us right? Well, who's going to correct it? I don't want to disappointed. I don't want to have to write a story, sit down and laboriously sit out and write a story myself. I go ahead because if she print damage about Well, why not? Why don't All right.

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You want to talk about this so as thing find out. What? Yes, We'll talk about damages. Ask her if we can look at it. Case. Straighten it up a little bit. What she's done. She has got a little better theme through it badly. Which is? She keeps coming back.

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I like I don't like what she said about Bobby Kennedy. Mhm. Okay, no, for look, Magic City much more when Think we will do it a little bit controversial. Well, where got to go? The appropriation? Yeah, Noncontroversial. Except for the foreign, right? Of course, I but exactly ah, would you do the giants talked about?

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Well, the path Whether substantially out of my committee, we will pass Bill, which is what that bill does to stop sure of our goal. Mhm on I'm ST words were investment house large here. People buy right, make translate right that Do it in the past. Although Bill has floor, we have all of this six years.

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It's just Bill will pass that bill social secure. Yeah, it's where we priest get out of 4 to 5%. Some three increase the amount of income they will be allowed. Um, will be increased 45. Okay. Past the Ways and Means Committee that. So I think that most every legislation which spread and John Game once will pass.

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Except thank you Did he want I don't care. All right, here will come up it. And while it will not pass, maybe the finance trying to get a new approach back Yeah, and then will undoubtedly be a doctor. Can't senate in my years with the result Yes.

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On the law this year. Question Fun stand. Wait, Do we have the subversion against you? Might you anticipate with the six Say they would. Three. Is that position establish? If they sure long time ago And it off. The matter is now that with Brazil being better hands than they were Do you like, survive?

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Yeah, with some kid. The government of Mexico are soon to be changed. The added generally with respect to Castro and Cuba has hard not over it in South America. And I believe they're going to find Castro government. Yeah, very thing. Although Hamid, with Castro again making overtures towards us and inviting these news men in is that sort Is there a danger of us going soft on George Cuba?

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I don't. So I personally have a mhm particularly mhm that there will be stop part of this face in Georgia. Yeah, then cute. Matter of fact, I think that if the OS does what even hope they'll do. Nations, in addition to those which are now exercising, sank, put in sanctions and make it even more different gas.

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Thank you very much. This matters. I'll return you now to your station. Enough. Mhm, Yeah.