The Times

Saturday, December 25, 1976, page 12 (of 24)

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Our American Economic System is ☐ good ☐ bad. (check one)

12/13 TIMES/GUIDE Weekend of December 25/26, 1976 Our American Economic System is ☐ good ☐ bad. (check one) We asked thousands of your fellow citizens this question. You should know how your answer compares with theirs. Not too surprising, most people have gripes. Inflation. Unemployment. Taxes. These are among the concerns that topped the list. Yet, if you checked "good," you join the great majority of Americans (about 80%) who believe that fundamentally the American Economic System—with the individual freedom and high standard of living that have accompanied it—is the best in the world. The question is: how do we overcome the bad without destroying the good? Obviously, the more we all know about our system and how it works, the better we can decide [TEXT LOST] The American Economic [TEXT LOST]