September 1973 Issue [The Easy Chair] How to save some of your tax money Download PDF Adjust Share by John Fischer, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 1971-1981 20th century Appropriations and expenditures Armed Forces Brookings Institution Center for Defense Information Economic conditions Senate Armed Services Committee United States United StatesCongress Waste (Economics) More from John Fischer Ugliness and Tension The question for the arriving generation is not whether our society is imperfect (we can take that for granted), but how to deal with that imperfection. So far as I… From “Letter from Leete’s Island Field notes on the manners, morals, and customs of the Connecticut Yankee," January 1969 From “Letter to a new leftist, from a tired liberal,” March 1966 Adjust Share