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\u003Cbr>and the Public In-   | First,it will fall with a heavy hand,not  \u003Cbr>only on education,but on all publicly sup-  \u003Cbr>ported activities,state and local,with not  \u003Cbr>enough time for either merit or need to be  \u003Cbr>properly taken into account.Second,it will   |\n| DR.DANIEL  \u003Cbr>ELLSBERG   | terest—Can We  \u003Cbr>Afford Jarvis II?”   | result in a massive transfer of both tax  \u003Cbr>dollars and government controls from  \u003Cbr>California to Washington,for the second  \u003Cbr>time in two years.Third,it is a diversion-  \u003Cbr>ary approach to the real problem of tax  \u003Cbr>reform and incentives,a problem that   |\n|  |  |  |\n| \"Are We The Last  \u003Cbr>Generation?”   | FRIDAY FLASHES—February 8,  \u003Cbr>1980  \u003Cbr>From Address by David S.Saxon,  \u003Cbr>President,University of California.  \u003Cbr>Seventy-five years ago last month,the   | must be addressed at the federal level.  \u003Cbr>Fourth,it is much too soon.We need to  \u003Cbr>digest Proposition 13 and Proposition 4  \u003Cbr>before we risk massive and precipitous  \u003Cbr>new social experiments like Proposition 9.  \u003Cbr>Finally,it is the latest example of a wor-   |\n| “A discussion of draft  \u003Cbr>registration,Selective  \u003Cbr>Service and the dangers of  \u003Cbr>global confrontation by the  \u003Cbr>super-powers.”   | Commonwealth Club voted to support two  \u003Cbr>radical new ideas,now associated with  \u003Cbr>Hiram Johnson and the Progressives:the  \u003Cbr>initiative and referendum.In a state whose  \u003Cbr>legislature had become captured by  \u003Cbr>special interests,unresponsive to public  \u003Cbr>opinion,and indifferent to the common  \u003Cbr>good,it was an eminently reasonable posi-  \u003Cbr>tion.The record shows that the debate  \u003Cbr>was characterized by the thoroughness   | risome trend towards use of the initiative  \u003Cbr>as a substitute for the legislative process.  \u003Cbr>Each of these by itself is a persuasive  \u003Cbr>argument against Proposition 9.Together  \u003Cbr>they seem to me overwhelming evidence  \u003Cbr>that the measure is bad news for Califor-  \u003Cbr>nia.  \u003Cbr>What is Proposition 9?  \u003Cbr>Proposition 9,if enacted,will accomplish   |\n|  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |\n| Noon,Ralston Room   | and public spirit that have become a   | three things:it will fully index the State's   |\n| Sheraton Palace Hotel   | hallmark of the Commonwealth Club tra-  \u003Cbr>dition.Six years later,in 1911,the state   | personal income tax,it will totally repeal  \u003Cbr>the business inventory tax,and it will   |\n| Tickets-$8 at the door.   | followed your example and voted to adopt  \u003Cbr>the initiative and referendum.Direct legis-   | reduce the personal income tax rate in  \u003Cbr>California by 50 percent.The first two   |\n| For the past five years Dr.Daniel  \u003Cbr>Ellsberg has been associated with the  \u003Cbr>Northern California Alliance for Survival  \u003Cbr>and has been a critic ofnuclear weapon  \u003Cbr>development.In light of the latest crisis in   | lation thus became a part of California's  \u003Cbr>history.  \u003Cbr>The Jarvis I Initiative  \u003Cbr>I am not here to reopen that debate.I   | provisions have already been enacted by  \u003Cbr>the Legislature;Proposition 9 would have  \u003Cbr>the effect of building them into the Con-  \u003Cbr>stitution.The third provision,reduction of  \u003Cbr>the personal income tax rate by 50 per-   |\n| the Middle East Eilsberg has become  \u003Cbr>increasingly concerned about what he  \u003Cbr>perceives as the overall militarizing of our  \u003Cbr>society.  \u003Cbr>The proposed registration of men and  \u003Cbr>women and re-activation of the selective  \u003Cbr>service system is symptomaticof the threat  \u003Cbr>the world faces,Ellsberg feels,and he  \u003Cbr>therefore supports the active resistance to  \u003Cbr>draft registration.In his Commonwealth  \u003Cbr>Club presentation Ellsberg will expand this  \u003Cbr>thesis in discussing the draft and the race to  \u003Cbr>nuclear armament.  \u003Cbr>ELLENM.NEWMAN   | am here because I am gravely concerned  \u003Cbr>about a particular initiative,Jarvis IⅡ—  \u003Cbr>Proposition 9,on the June ballot.I am con-  \u003Cbr>vinced that ","cbCaimhsFNNh5uYJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimhsFNNh5uYJ","pdf",2135944,"English","# VOL LXXIV · NO.7\n## February 18,1980\n## FRIDAY FLASHES—February 8, 1980\n## Dr. Daniel Ellsberg Remarks\n## Proposition 9 Provisions and Impact","[{\"question\":\"What is the main subject of this February 18, 1980 issue?\",\"answer\":\"The issue centers on public discussion and arguments concerning the June ballot initiative known as Proposition 9, including its expected effects on education and state finances.\"},{\"question\":\"Who are the key speakers mentioned in the document?\",\"answer\":\"Dr. Daniel Ellsberg is prominently featured, and David S. 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