Union Council Hits Tax Plan Of Democrats
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug, 9ÛÓ The AFL-CIO today obliquely attacked proposals by such leading liberal contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination as Sens. Edmund S. Muskie and Edward M. Kennedy for accelerated tax cuts to help speed economic recovery.</br></br>The criticism came in a statement by the federation's Executive Council which focused on ÛÏspecial tax privilege for wealthy people.Û But it also took aim at ÛÏcontinuing proposals for additional erosions of federal revenues.Û</br></br>A highly placed AFL-CIO source said the latter reference includes proposals that cuts in personal tax rates and increases in personal exemptions scheduled for 1972 and 1973 under the Tax Reform Act of 1969 be implemented immediately to stimulate buying power and thus, the economy, as a whole.</br></br>These proposals have been embraced almost unanimously by a half dozen left-of-center senatorial Democrats who are considered possible candidates for the presidential nomina- that AFL-CIO President George Meany favors Senator Henry Jackson (D-Wash.), a conservative on foreign and defense policy who nonetheless lines up with labor on many bread-and-butter Issues.</br></br>Meany denies he has made any personal choice, and his lack of enthusiasm for the broad field of Democratic p'os* sibilities generally was apparent here today when he said he ÛÏdoesn't see any particular person" as a candidate as yet.