And on this issue the congressmen are hearing from their local TV-station owners as well as from the N.A.B. Apart from the argument that regulatory action on cigarette advertising on the air would strengthen the agencies hand and thereby sap the power of Congress, the broadcasters maintained in their lobbying exercises that the broadcasting industry itself was perfectly capable of regulating its advertising of legal products such as cigarettes, and, in fact, was already monitoring and regulating the cigarette advertising that was offered it, through cigarette-advertising guidelines devised by the Television Code Authority, the administrative arm of the N.A.B.s Television Code Review Board
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For a person of modest income, say $20,000 a year, that $5,000 taxed at a higher rate can result in a higher overall tax bill (It should be noted that people whose incomes are below the federal poverty line based on family size do not pay income taxes in Kentucky, and those with incomes up to 33 percent above the poverty line pay at reduced levels, but these exclusions only apply to some low-income people.) Those benefiting the most from the new flat tax rate are the very wealthy, whose incomes were mostly taxed at 6 percent before the rate reduction (the 6 percent rate applied to income above $75,000, and a 5.8 percent rate between $8,000 and $75,000) but are now taxed at 5 percent
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