congressman barber conable added a carrotor business in t form of faster depreciation of capital iestmentsic reagan idea was to have a simple prosal of two parts-- rateuts ancuts for business that would be given in a way to encourage investment and therefore improve productivity. the acrs 10-5-3 jones-conable bill was the second half of the proposal. i felt it was very necessary in short to encourage productivity growt to encouge savings. i am not a keynesian. i don't believe that you can handle economic policy solely by taking those stepsthat will stimulate consumptio i think you've got to give somencentive to savings, too. for months republicans hammered away at democra in congress tryingo pry loose enoughotes pass the tax package, e opposion held. agan's program was going where. the tax bill was amended to attract more votes. then the president took his case directly to the people. this is absolutely essential if we'reo provide inceives and make capital availab for the increased productity required to provide real, rmanent jo when the votes were counted, the president d a great politic