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7 trillion--this would mean taxing university endowments, foundations, churches, and even the smallest bank accounts.
Back then, public broadcasting and the national endowments for the Arts and Humanities were (rightly) taken to task as mechanisms for transferring money from working-class families to a handful of elite subversives in Boston, New York, and Los Angeles.
In addition, he said several foundations that give money to the LAF have seen their endowments shrink with the declining stock market, and the money available from the Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts program also has dwindled as interest rates have approached zero.
In the 1970s, he was known as a tough-minded supporter who could be counted on for a meticulous review of how the endowments were spending their money.
[T]he magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence one who (inheriting inferior endowments from nature and unpracticed in the duties of civil administration) ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies.