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Tax Cut Pushed
By Congressmen
Editorials And Opinions
It’s somethjng-for-everyone time again, on
Capitol Hill. '
The Senate Finance Committee, in a burst of
legisiative energy, has rushed to completion its
version of the tax cut everyone in Congress is talk-
ing about and quite a few are trying to do
somethingiibout.
Why the rush? Surely you haven’t forgotten the
significance of Nov. 4? The measure is scheduled
to go to the floor Immediately after Labor Day
and, if rushed through both Houses before pre-
election adjournment, would take effect Jan. 1,
th,e start of the next tax year.
It includes a little something fdr nearly every
individual taxpayer, boosting the standard per-
sonal exemption $100, to $1,100, and trimming the
average personal tawtoad an estimated $250.
It has something for business, a cut in corporate
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Thursday. September 4, 1980
From Sun Files - -
Touchdown Club Led
By Dr. Davis, 1960
taxes from 46 to 44 percentand faster tax write-
offs for investment in newplant and equipment.
It tosses in. something for investors, exempting
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It even takes a stab 'at the much-publicized
‘marriage tax.” A special deduction for two-
income households is designed to bring taxes on
joint returns Into better balance with those on
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Identical incomes reported separately.
There are more somethings, many more, and
they all add up to a $29 billion cut in the annual
American tax bill.
Quite a bundle, and the committee wrapped it
up, the Washington Post reported, "amid
laughter.” That came when it voted to append the
tax measure to a bill, already passed by the House
and now before the Senate, authorizing duty-free
importation of six bells for the United Methodist
Church of Washington. This to acknowledge the
Constitution’s vesting of the lower chamber with
primary jurisdiction in tax and other money mat-,
ters.. ' -,'v
Veryfunny.
But the humor is likely to be lost on the House, r..........
where the leadership has a much less severe case -hidden cameras' Rep. John
of tax-cut fever and is thinking more in terms of Murphy, d-n.y., was clear
very limited cuts, if at all, this year. To be follow-
ed by a comprehensive and unhurried review of
the entire tax structure come January and the
convening of a new Congress. •
There is much to be said for much of the Senate
committee’s work - research and development
From The Baytown Sun
files, this is the way it was
40 and 30 and 20 years ago:
SEPT. 4,1940
In an effort to speed
resumption of WPA work in
Goose Greek, Cky Attorney.
George Chandler, after stu-
’ dying the city charter and
getting an'opinHjnJrom an
Austin law firm, say's the
parings cannot be.closed.
Baytown Re6l • Estate
Boat'd members and their
Ervin. Flowers and* Citjt..,. families have their annual
Commissioners Willis Cobb ‘- picnic at Jones Park on, the
banks of San Jacinto River
in Highlands./E |Woodruff
fs hoard ' president. In
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DECISION BO
Washington Report■ - -
. Murphy In Abscarri Net:
Can The FBI Keep Him?
The Way
It Was
1780:
By JACK ANDERSON
■ WASHINGTON When'
he made his final ap-
pearance before Abscam’s,
the FBI’s hidden cameras tand what you’re saying as
turned. " ~Tiff as'be'inic>aft?fu(knrtFb§^
Mjarphy sat silently, sipp-
SEPTEMBER 4,
Americans routed Tory
militia at Blue Savannah,
sidewalks, curbs and gut-
ters in Goose' Creek was
suspended by the Hoifston
office when there was an in-
sufficient amount of work
available to keep 23 men on
the job. ,
Louise Harden, a sum-
mer graduate of Lee Junior
College, is honored at a par-
ty by Lucyle Cope.
SEPT. 4,1950
An attempt to bar the
press from the Baytown
Tax Equalization Board
public hearings is not suc-
cessful. City Attorney
ISEPT. 4,1960
Dr. Hamlet I. Davis, new
president of the Baytown
Touchdown Club, tells
plans for a. meeting at the
Tower Restaurant.
Mrs. * Bryan Stratton is
chairman .of. the Service
League rummage sale..
Suicide Squad coaches at
Robert E. Lee are coached
by Kevin Lounsberry,
backfield and Paul Bill
Kern ,and Ron Kramer,
line. The squadjs composed
of 41 sophomore and junior
football players.
ly suspicious.
In a prevjous session with
the FBI’s undercover men,
the congressman - chair-
man of the House Merchant
Marine Committee — had
inquired whether yiey
tax breaks to spur, technological advance and a w“uld ^ ,int.erefe.d a
better tax deal'for Americans working abroad,
improving the competitive position of U.S. firms
seeking foreign contracts, would work to the
benefit of the entire economy.
shipping deal. And when
the agents.had proffered a
briefcase stuffed with
greenbacks, Murphy had
instructed an associate to
The primary purpose of the clutch of provisions
designed to reduce the personal tax load - offset-
ting steeply rising Social Security taxes-and the
hidden tax of inflation — is also desirable.
But the timing of this measure and the speed
with which it has been thrown together are not. It
has not been devised with adequate consideration
“take care” of it.
• But by January 198ff,
when he was last featured
on the FBI’s .videotapes,
Murphy had undergone a
mysterious attitude
change. He went out of his.
way to disassociate himself
mg a scotch and water,
while Buser discussed the
financing of the arrange-
ment by the Arab sheik
whom Amoroso and
Weinberg supposedly
represented. The Abscam
agents repeatedly tried to
focus the conversation on
the. congressman, but
Buser didn’t bite.
Buser (referring to Mur-
phy): “He’s pot in this.”
Weinberg: “He’;, not?’"’
Amoroso: “Well, wait a ’
minute. I sold this thing on
the basis that he’s gonna
help, and he’s gonna be a
prime mover . . . and he is
gonna be there.”
Byser: “And he is'. . .
He’ll do that, anyway.”
‘•At one point, while Mur-
phy was not present,- the
ing cautious, all right? To
be honest with you, the day
I first met you, when we
were at the airport hotel, I
was reluctant to give you
the money.”
Murphy: “You didn’t
give me any money.”
Amoroso: "Well, OK,
when I gave it to Howard.”
Murphy: "I never receiv-
ed any money* from any one,
arid would not accept
anything— from you or
Howard.”
Clearly, John Murphy is
no babe in the woods, as the
FBI agents found out.
Whether he’s an innocent
lamb will be up to a jury to
decide.
High IQ, Low PR: Mensa,
a national organization of
Bible Verse
WHERE THERE is
neither Greek nor Jew,
circumcision nor un-
circumcision, Barbarian,
Scythians, bond nor free:
but Christ is all, and in all.
Colossians3:ll
HEALTH
By Lawrence E. Lamb, M,D.
The World Almanac"
1. In 1979, which National
League team ended the season
with the lowest winning per-
centage in the league? (a) Chi-
cago Cubs ’(b) New York Mets
(c) Atlanta Braves
2. The official language of the
Co-operative Republic of
Guyana is (a) Hindi (b) Por-
' tuguese fc) English r .. ■
3. The Nobel Prize in Brio-..
„ ’ nomics was established and •
individuals with high in- . Jicst awarded in faTTSfrl (b) •
telligence quotients, has 1948 (c) 1969
DEAR DR. LAMB - My
husband was recently
* informed by his doctor after t
blood test-that his triglyceride
level was 531. The doctor said
that normal was between 30*
and 150. He is only 25 years
old, and otherwise quite
healthy. • ......?.....
Can you tell me a little bit
about this1 What would have
eventually happened if we did
. not discover this? His doctor
told him not to eat milk prod- •
ucts. What else: should he
avoid? What caused this?
DEAR READER - Trigly-
ceride really means fat. A tri-
number of years ago many
heart specialists thought that
an elevated triglyceride was
extremely important. Today
it’s riot regarded to be such an
important factor in causing
fatty-cholesterol deposits that
lead to heart attacks and .
‘“stTckesrThatV^anicutariy”
true if high triglycerides is the
only abnormality. Now if it’s
found along with a high cho-
lesterol level or other abnor-
malities, then its meaning is
more significant. ,
A lot of the concepts about
cholesterol and triglycerides
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glyceride test is a measure? it
jnent'of the a/nount; oL£Sk irr"^“^hat some people have “good”
"linlnefornl oc .troll oe ‘‘koJ”
of several of his colleagues
who had been swept into the
FBI’s Abscam net.
political one at that.
This is tax cutting with a hatchet. The public
may think it is getting something out of a tax bill
, times over in the negative long-term effects.
By Ned .
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rupt congressman would
show when approached
with a bribe offer? Or was
he quite simply innocent of
any evil intent? '
The videotapes of Mur-
phy’s meetings with the
Abscam operatives who
*were posing as represen-
tatives of an Arab sheik in
need of favors from influen-
tial members of~Congress
— are open to several inter-
pretations. Depending on
the point of view, defense or
prosecution, the tapes show
that Murphy was either too
honest or too sly to make in-
criminating statements to
the government agents. .*.
in on the deal. It is possible,
of course, that Criden was
simply trying to keep the
money spigot turned on.
, Later, Amoroso called
Murphy aside for a private
discussion. Amoroso tolci
the congressman that Reps
Frank Thompson, D-N.J.,
and John Murtha, D-Pa.;-
who were also caught up in
the Abscam net, were in-
volved with the “sheik” and
his problems, and that
money had been mention-
ed. ; —
" MY DAUGHTER WRITES FROM COLLEGE THAT JEANS
AN’LOAFERS ARE ‘IN'-1 WINK SHE (VIERNS SHE’S
WEARIN’JEANS W DflnA)'LOAFERS?
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MURPHY HAS vociferous-
ly asserted that the
videotapes will prove that
he did nothing wrong and
has demanded they be
released by the courts. My
associate Gary Cohn has
reviewed the afill-secret
tapes, and one thing that is
clear is that the FBI team *
failed to get Murphy to in-
criminate himself. The
motivation behind Mur-
phy's non-culpable
statements in the
videotaped sessions will be
argued by prosecutors and
defense attorneys at Mur-
phy’s trial later this month.
On JanJO, 1980, Murphy,
his longtime associate
Laurence Buser, and the
FBI’s unwitting recruiter of
possibly bribe-susceptible
congressmen, Howard
Criden, met with "FBI
operatives Anthony
Amoroso and Mel Weinberg
in a Washington townhouse.
A lucrative deal involving
Puerto Rican shipping was
(q be nailed down — while
Murphy: “You see, any
time money’s mentioned
where a public official is
mentioneU, there’s
automatically an ability to
link them to. something il-
legal. No public official
would ever be involved in
anything like that>”
Amoroso: “Well--” -
Murphy, almost mock-
ingly: “Particularly
Thompson, myself or Mur-
tha. We'd never db
anything ljke that, see?”
been studiously lobbying
some members of Congress
to have National Mensa
Week declared by congres-
sional resolution. But when
one Capital Hill aide called
Mensa for some
background information;
the high-IQ person at the
other end of the line replied
tersely-that she coyld only
“read the prepared state-
ment." Pressed for a better
‘.response, the Mensa
representative merely
repeated, with the stub-
borness of a dull-normal,
that she would “read the
prepared.statement.” ,
Watch On Waste: It costs
the taxpayers nearly
$100,000 a year to keep two
ANSWERS
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your bloodstream:
Doctors change their minds
from time to time depending
upon available research data
about different blood
measurements. That’s cer-
tainly true of triglycerides. A
cholesterol as well .as ‘’bad’’
cholesterol. The good choles-
terol is supposed to be - in
small fatty particles and the
bad cholesterol is carried in
larger fatty particles in the
bloodstream.
The Wagman File - -
Both Parties Must Hunt
For Candidate In 1984
By ROBERT J. WAGMAN
WASHINGTON (NEA) -
One thing about Election ’80
is certain, say political in-
siders: No matter who wins
in November, both parties
will have to come up with
new candidates for 1984.
If Jimmy Carter wins, he
former speakers of the will have served his two
House in the style to which terms If he ioses, it is very
they became .accustomed, doubtful the party will give
Democrats John McCor- him another shot. If Ronald
mack. of Massachusetts ’ Reagan wins, he will be 74
who retired in 1971, and years old in 1984 and not
not overly concerned by
Kennedy’s convention
showing, They were
angered and embarrassed
in front of a national-au-
dience, true; but victory
was all they were after and
victory is what they, got.
teachers in his acceptance
speech. The National
Education Association has
become a powerful force in
tile Democratic Party.
Then there is Jerry
Brown. Perhaps no one in
the U.S. wants to be presi-
The supporters of Walter dent as much as the gover-- '
Mondale, however, were nor-of California. His
concerned for they have the speech to the convention"
most to fear over the longer seemed to be the most *1
term from a Kennedy overtly political of his
career. While a portion of it
resurgency.
AMOROSO, LAUGHING
nervously,: "If you’re play-
ing — if you’re being coy
witfi me — Hey, I unders-
Carl Albert of Oklahoma,
who retired in, 1976. both
receive generous pensions
as well as office space, sup-
plies and five staff
members apiece ,
Footnote: Ahyone who is’
aware of goverriment ex-
travagance should write of
it to Jack .Anderson'S*
WATCH ON WASTE, P.O.
Box 2300, Washington, D.C.
20013.
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"Gosh, man! You’ye got a lot of guts wearing
SOCKS to a party- in the summertime."
even his closest staff
members expect him to
stand for re-election; and if
he loses, he won’t try again.
, So it'will be new faces for
both parties and, while the
1980 election is still three
months away, the jockey-
ing for 1984 already has
begun.
The most visible example
of this, of course, was ted
Kennedy’s speech to the
Democratic national Con-
vention. In it, he laid claim
to the leadership of the
It has been said that Mon-
dale never hungered for
high political office and was
not willing to do what was
necessary to gain it. Four
years as vice president,
however, apparently has
did deal with Brown’s vi-
sion of the United States of
the future, most of it was an
attack on Ronald Reagan
and an attempt by Brown to
position himselGas the only
Democrat \yjio can.appeal
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changed afl that. The wor(f to both the Carter and Ken-
now is Mdndale very much nedy segments of the party.
wants to be president.
Most Washington
observers rate Mondale’s
political staff as about the
best in town. It has been
quietly biding its time,' col-
lecting names of- potential
supporters and IOUs from
most liberal elements of the ?• segments of the party. The
party/elements he needs to staff is ready to make its
move in four years if Carter
wins in November; im-
mediately, if he loses.
Now, however, it is being
challenged by Kennedy for
those very segments of the
party it had staked out for
Mondale. Look for Moridale
to spend considerable time
■ uu.iu,.....uyiiivy, awy vox# , this campaign season not
didates for the Senate and ^ only trying to win re-'
House. In this way, he«H1 election, but wooing’
attempt to solidify his segments of the party away
clMm to ttife leadership oI?.*' from Kennedy. * "
the liberal Democrats.
launch his 1984 nomination
bid.
Most party insiders, in
fact, believe Kennedy will
campaign hard this fall, not
so much for the Carter-
Mandaie ticket as for
himself. Look for Kennedy
to stump the country for
- liberal Democratic can-
THE. CARTER forces were
ONE EXAMPLE of. this
was Mondale’s attention to
In the past, Brown has
stayed aloof of politics, in
recent days, however, he
has become almost the
stereotype of the grad-
handing politician. Witness
the fact that Brown’s first
question to his staff after
making-his convention
speech was whether the TV
networks had carried it. In
past years, he would not , ■»
h-ave cared.. Or witness the
chaotic scene on the plat-
form after Carter’s speech
and the .sight of Jerry
Brown pushing- his way
from Ihe back of the
podium to the front to get
himself into the Carter-
Kennedy pictures. Brown
badly needs to carve out - .
some-fund of base for a 1984
bid. Look . for,<Brown tq
spend the coming cam
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