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1. A bill in Congress would provide hospital, nursing home and surgical benefits for persons receiving social security payments. An immediate increase in the social security tax of Vfe <>ef wages and salares on both employer and employee and 3/8% of the earnings of self-employed persons subject to social security taxes is called for by the bill; but eventual costs of the proposed new benefits have been estimated to require nearly double these increases in tax. Do you favor this bill? Yes 2,3000; No 5,005.
2. Most States, including Virginia, have enacted “fair trade' laws intended to control “cutthroat” retail' price competition, such as the selling of some popular brands of merchandise at a low price as come-ons. The “fair trade” . laws permit a manufacturer to set the retail price of his product if he desires. Would you favor a federal law of this kind? Yes 2,726; No 4.323.
3. A biH recommended by a committee of the House of Representatives would allocate 4 billion 500 million dollars to the States over a four-year period to build additional public schools and raise the salaries of pubic school teachers. Do you favor this bill? Yes 3,127; No 4,094.
4. A bill recommended by a committee of the House of Represenatives woud authorize the Federal Government to subsidize the construction of 35,000 low-rent public housing, units a year, for four years, in the cities'in the United States..this construction to be in addiion to.all such projects authorized under existing laws. Construction, and subsidization of the low rents over a 40-year period, is estimated to cost the federal taxpayers approximately 3 billion 700
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