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Reports and legislation briefs, policy agendas, reports, and briefs. Subjects include women's issues, family farms, tax reform, community energy planning, local food, plant closings, cooperatives, South African divestment, toxic chemicals, and health care.

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News clippings, surveys, and other materials documenting a telephone survey of taxpayers in Ithaca, New York, done by Cornell University students in planning course 649, "Informal Study in Planning Practice," in cooperation with Ithaca Taxpayers Association.

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Includes correspondence with constituents, colleagues, and others, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous materials concerning taxation, tariff policies, and other aspects of his work.

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Papers of Henry P. Smith III from his terms as a United States Congressman from New York State.

Abstract Correspondence, pamphlets, charts, speeches, reports, published and unpublished manuscripts, and other printed material relating to Philip Cornick's research and writings in the fields of land economics, taxation, land use, urban planning, and public works planning. Materials cover many areas across the country, including Tennessee, Ohio, Maine, Massachusetts, New York City and Newark, New Jersey. Also includes materials concerning Henry George's "single tax," forest taxation, the Regional...

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Leaflets distributed by the University of Economics Foundation, proposing that local, state, and national constitutions be amended to eliminate all government regulation of employment, eliminate currency in favor of privately issued "checks and tickets used solely as a medium of accounting," and eliminate all other taxation in favor of land revenue (basically a property tax).