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4—THE NEWS-TELECRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texoi, Tuesday, April 15,1980.
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In our opinion
Sunbelt stand scores
in flow of new jobs
Two out of every three new jobs
created from 1968 to 1978 were) in the
South and West, a U.S. Department of
Labor study shows.
The difference represents a net gain
of 6.2 million jobs., This is a fnassive
shift of economic activity from the
Northeast and" 'Midwest into the
Sunbelt area.
Principal reason for the trend is
regarded as a conviction that the
southern and western states offer a
better business climate. Specific
elements mentioned are low taxes, low
levels of public assistance, restrictive
labor legislation and a low level of
government debt.
States rated most favorably in a
survey on these points were, in order,
Texas, Alabama, Virginia, South
Dakota, the Carolinas, Florida, Arkan-
sas, Indiana, Utah, North Dakota and
Mississippi. The list of states with
ily
allegedly unfavorable business
climates was headed by New York and
include " Massachusetts,.....Michigan.
Connecticut, Pennsylvania and New
Jersey.
Looking at the contrast frpm one
viewpoint, you have one group of states
that emphasizes having laws regarded
- as favorable to working people and
another that is stressing opportunity
for people to work. -
You can take your choice as to
which route you prefer.
Unhappy baseball players
threatening strike
The marriage tax
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Angela and David Boyter certainly started something
The Boyters, you may recall, made the news a bit back
because they divorced and remarried — repeatedly Even
December for several years they have been calling it off
legally But the following January it's on again'* j
The reason is not an extreme case w mutuaktndecision but ’
the bottom line on their tax returns The on-and-off marriage
is their way of getting around a quirk in the federal tax laws
that wrings more out of a working married couple filing a
joint return than it does out of cohabitating singles filing sepa-
rately •'
The temporary Separation works because of another quirk
As long as taxpayers are singles in the eyes of the law at the
close of the tax year, they may file separately
The Boyters caught the attention not only of the public but
COMMENTARY
Don Graff
The money involved is’ndt paltry. For married individuals
each in the $20,000 bracket, a typical tax bite is $1,692 more
than for singles filing separately The difference drops consid-
erably. of course, at lower income levels But those are the
levels aV.which every little bit helps, or hurts, the most The
average marriage-tax penalty is put at $524
One would think that with all the tax expertise in Washing-
ton. all the staff available to the IRS and Congress, we would
get laws more equitable than this But it just goes to show that
we can t have everything, even though we seem to be paying
for it.
All concerned - most notably the IRS and Congress -
agree'that the marriage tax is unfair and there are a number
of rectifying proposals circulating the simplest being a revi-
sion in the law giving married earners the option of filing
separately ,
There is considerable question, however, as to the chances
of this or any other relief measure being enacted soon with
Congress and the administration preoccupied with budget
balancing in the battle against inflation
- Unfair penalty it may be. but the marriage tax still nets the
treasury $8.3 billion a year
J-
V
•Now there’s a bottom line
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For better or worse
of the Internal Revenue Service, which charged fraud, and
now Congress, where the House Ways and Means Committee
has been hearing testimony on the jeffects of the marriage
tax’ and possible correctives
As a matter of fact, it turns out that the Boyters didn't start
anything The divorce-remarriage deduction has been quietly
utilized by many two-income couples and is spreading A Con-
necticut couple, capitalizing on personal experience, is report-
ed to have set up an advisory service for other couples on the
procedures and possible legal pitfalls of tax divorces
It all started with the tax reform of 1969. which corrected
fhuch-criticized inequities in the treatment of single taxpay-
ers Inadvertently, the disadvantage was shifted to working
couples An estimated 19 million two-income households —
six out of 10 marriages - are affected
It probably has nothing, or very little, to do with the mar-
riage tax, but the pattern of marriage, American style, is
changing
The Census Bureau reports continuing increases in the ages
for first marriages — 22 1 for woman and 24 4 for men in
1979. up from 20.1 and 22 5 respectively in 1956 — and iathe
numbers of unmarried Currently half of all women in the 20-'
to-24 age group have,never married, compared with 19.6|per:
cent 20 years ago - ' ^
The divorce rate continues to climb - from 47 per 1,000
marriages in 1970 to 92 in 1979 — and so does the popularity
of housekeeping tyithout benefit of marriage Unmarried
households have doubled, to 1 3 million, since 1970
That, however, is only 3 percent of all households. Marriage
may have its penalties but obviously is still overwhelmingly
regarded as worth the price,
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN ,
Big league baseball players, who
cut short their spring training program
and refused to perform in exhibition
games, are threatening to stage a
strike shortly if they do not win current
demands.
Now if the baseball players strike, it
will teach the owners a lesson, to be
sure. But the lesson may be costly. It
could teach the owners they can not
operate and derive income from empty
parks. And they might learn that
without income they could not pay all
of those million dollar players for not
playing.
The average pay for the new
baseball season is reported to be about
$150,000. The salaries range from
$25,000 to the million dollar range. In
hotels while away from home, and
receive generous $29 a day for meals
while on the road. Most of the time they
play only in good weather and work
days only take a few hours.
It is difficult for the average fan to
feel sorry for the baseball players -
they average about 28 years of age —
as they work short days, live king-like,
and draw handsome salaries. Sym-
pathy for the players is hard to work up
by the fan who pays inflated sums for
tickets and even relatively higher
prices for hot dogs and a cool drink.
The threat of a strike by the players
is not popular with followers of the na-
£TTA ‘ott’WO’Sfrv*
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tional pastime. Many of the fans feel
that the players are becoming so
addition, the players have great pen-
sion and health plans, live in fancy
greedy that they might kill the goose
that laid the golden egg if they keep up
their current course of action.
Clay's famous words
carry double impact
Henry Clay is perhaps best
remembered for his ringing declara-
tion that he would rather be right than
President.
It has been 140 years since those
spoken and they
)f time.
still sur-
words were st
vive the test of
That test also has shown that it is
extremely rare for anyone to be both
President and right.
Today is Tuesday, April 15,
the 106th day of 1980. There are
260 days left In the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On April 15, 1865, Abraham
Lincoln died in a Washington
boarding house across the
street from Ford Theater,
where he had been shot the
night before.
On this date:
In 1638, English settlers
arrived at what is now New
Haven, Conn.
In 1861, President Lincoln
called out the militia to sup-
press the Confederacy.
In 1923, insulin — discovered
by Canadian doctor Frederick
Banting — became available
for general use by diabetics.
In 1945, President Franklin
Roosevelt was buried at the
family home in Hyde Park,
N.Y.
Ten years ago, mobs in
Amman, Jordan burned the
U.S. cultural center and at-
tacked the American Embassy.
Five years ago, Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger revealed
that the American Embassy
staff in Saigon had been or-
dered cut to a minimum.
W~\
‘Great idea, Giirumple — we could make a fortune.’
Jack Anderson
Help for disabled child
DOE's misinformation flawed
By Lawrence T. Taft, M.D.
(Sixth in a series)
Carter's whole energy program
PRINCETON, N.J. (NEAj -
Mental and physical handi-
caps that occur during the
growing years are considered
in formal
Child’s Mind, Child’s Body
language “develop-
tai^disabilities ” Some
nples'ar
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - Jimmy
Carter’s whole energy pro-
gram is based on a faulty
appraisal of the world oil
.situation provided by the
Department of Energy. This
is the confidential conclu-
sion of investigators for his
rival for the Democratic
nomination, Sen. Edward
Kennedy, D-Mass.
Sloppy research and pure
guesswork by DOE’s sup-
posed experts gave the pres-
ident a distorted view of the
world’s oil supply and
demand for it, contends a
staff report that has been
suppressed for eight months.
Yet the DOE not only
refuses to acknowledge that
it lacks the means of collect-
ing accurate data, it insists
that its demonstrably false
projections last year were
correct, the report says.
* The Carter energy policy
“is based on the assumption
that the world experienced a
flawed,’ the Kennedy report
states.
-^During the 10-week period
when Iranian oil supplies
were cut off -- from Decem-
ber 1978, to March 1979 -
DOE spokesmen insisted,
with Chicken Little hysteria,
that the Western world was
demand was calculated by
simply adding 2 percent to
the figure for the first
of 1978 - ignoring a
part
U.S.
experiencing a shortfall of 2
million barrel
coal strike that led to a tem-
porary increase in oil
demand that year
The importance of the
Kennedy report’s criticism
ed official I want to be noti-
fied immediately. I will then
notify the District Director,
who in turn will obtain the
appropriate disclosure
authorization in order that
mem
examples
mental retardation, epi!
re cerebral palsy,
•pilepsy,
autism and learning disabili-
million barrels of oil a day
But the administration
alarmists "were not repeat-
ing a statement of fact, the
Kennedy report charges:
"Rather they were repeating
an analysis based on three
assumptions which were
based on few if any facts ”
Those three assumptions
were DOE’s guesstimates of
what world oil production
would be, what world
demand would be and what
existing stockpiles would be
drawn during the winter.
And the department's reck-
onings were seriously off the
mark, the report charges
Using a number of indus-
goes beyond mere who-
struck-John finger-pointing
our employee may immedi-
ately telephone U.S. Secret
Service These procedures
sassftftLtl
report concludes that at
during the first quarter
1979, and that the world
may experience many sig-
nificant shortages of oil in
the near future," states the
report.
The staff findings were
based on extensive inter-
views with petroleum
experts as well as on inter-
nal DOE documents. My
associate Dale Van Atta has
confirmed the key findings.
"Since the shortage due to
most there might have been
a world shortfall of 500,000
barrels a day because of the
Iranian cutoff - an amount
that “is insignificant in rela-
tion to total Free World oil
supply and total Free World
oil stocks."
Indeed, the Kennedy
report indicates, a reason-
able case could be made that
instead of a shortage during
KS
aberration in the inter- * day
Carter energy plan i» lh*‘ its «‘™ated
in an election year. Far-
reaching policy decisions
that affect every American
are made on the data that a
president gets about the
world oil situation
"There was a time," the
Kennedy staff report
concludes, "when it was not
important for the United
States government to accu-
rately know the level of the
Free World oil .supply,
demand and stock levels ...
This time has passed In
order for this country to
make intelligent economic,
political and national securi-
ty decisions, accurate infor-
mation about the interna-
tional petroleum market
must be available to policy
makers. Neither the DOE
(nor the) CIA ... can present-
ly provide this information."
HOLD YOUR FIRE: The
Tax Reform Act of 1976
placed ironclad restrictions
on disclosure of information
by Internal Revenue Service
agents. Even in cases of
extreme urgency, they must
go through bureaucratic
channels. Consider this
internal memo from the
chief of crTirilft*T investiga-
tions:
"When any employee
receives a death threat to
the President or other elect-
will be observed in all
instances."
DEALING AND WHEEL-
ING: Jimmy Carter’s failure
to back federal funds for the
handicapped could cause
serious disaffection among
the nation's 30 million physi-
cally disabled. To assuage
this increasingly active
voter bloc, some Carter
backers are urging him to
appoint a seriously disabled
person to high office -
specifically, membership on
the Federal Communica-
tions Commission.
ties.
Children with such handi-
caps are especially vulnerable
to emotional problems They
must cope not only with their
handicaps but frequently with
society’s intolerance of those
"differences” They may be
handicapped further by the
pity or rejection of parents,
peers and strangers
For healthy emotional
development, disabled chil-
dren require especially posi-
tive experiences starting in
early infancy Parents may
have difficulty providing such
experiences, however
Grief is often parents' ini-
tial reaction upon learning of
their child's handicap. They
may be so grief-stricken that
they alienate themselves from
their baby, upsetting chances
for constructive parent-child
relationships
Or they may feel so respon-
sible for their child’s problem
that they become over-protec-
tive, not allowing him or her
to function independently.
Other parents deny the han-
dicap as a way of lessening
their anxiety about their
child They often make
demands that are beyond the
child's abilities These
demands result in the child's
continuously “failing" in the
' i nil
parents' eyes and in his or her
own
As a consequence, such chil-
dren rarely experience
achievement and success
They may develop poor self-
images and lose all motiva-
tion to try new tasks.
* Most handicapped young-
sters have little chance to
interact with their peers
Early referral to "infant
stimulation" programs per-
mits parents to learn about
their child's development and
about how to maximize his or
her capacities
School-age handicapped
children are in the middle of a
controversy over which type
of educational setting is best
for them Should they be in a
restricted environment with
others similarly afflicted? Or
should they be
"mainstreamed” — placed in
classrooms with non-handi-
capped children’’
They are frequently rejected
” children
Berry's World
. The leading prospect is
John Jay Dystel, a former
FCC attorney. Disabled by
multiple sclerosis in 1973,
Dystel has overcome his
handicap and practiced law
in Seattle. Dystel has
Bit
worked for Sen. Birch Bayh,
D-Ind., and New York’s one-
time. Republican mayor,
John Lindsay. More recent-
ly, he directed the Capitol
Hill lobbying effort for the
American Coalition of Citi-
zens with Disabilities
WATCH ON WASTE:
What is the social signifi-
cance of making footwear?
We’ll soon know. The
National Endowment for the
Humanities footed the MU*
for an 180,000 exhibit on the
social history and social sig-
nificance of making ahoes in
Lynn, Mass.
CafyrlfM. IW».
(MH r«Mr» Sywkr»U tat
by "normal” children Parents
are often ashamed of their
handicapped child, especially
if he or she is disfigured, and
tend to avoid social interac-
tions
All this decreases handi-
capped children's chances of
learning from their environ-
ment and gaining social skills
Not only are they involuntari-
ly isolated from the world, but
they may decide to isolate
themselves still further out of
fear of rejection.
Handicapped children get
their best chance at success
when parents and profession-
dp them learn how to
als help
accentuate their strengths to
compensate for their
weaknesses.
It is strongly recommended
that parents seek professional
help for a handicapped child
as soon as possible, the earli-
er the child’s developmental
problems are recognized, the
better chance there is of pre-
venting some of the serious
emotional (and perhaps physi-
cal) consequences of growing
up handicapped.
Advocates of mainstream-
ing suggest that exposure of
handicapped children to their
non-handicapped peers fosters
mutual understanding They
hope handicapped children
will learn to cope better with
the “real world” while non-
handicapped children become
more accepting of their less-
fortunate classmates.
Critics charge that main-
streaming is harmful for the
self-images of handicapped
children who for six hours a
day may be low people on the
classroom totem pole. Teach-
ers assert that they have nei-
ther the time nor the training
to individualize the curricu-
lum for one handicapped child
and to give that child the
attention ne or she may need.
Resolution of the main-
streaming issue awaits fur-
ther time and experience.
Perhaps no one kind of pro-
gram is the answer for all
affected children.
Each state has a Develop-
mental Disabilities Council
office that offers an informa-
tional and referral service. To
learn about educational,
social and other programs for
childrei
Dr. Taft is professor end chair-
man of the Department c
handicapped children and
their parents, a call to the
Developmental Disabilities
Council will prove helpful.
t of Pedis-
tries. CoNsgs of Medicine and
„ Dentlsuy of Naw Jerasy, Rutgers.
The more parents know
about their child and his or
"Stick with me, baby, and I’M have your name In
the blue jean ad hall of fame."
Medical School. This article to
one of a series written In cooper-
ation with the Council on Family
Health, a puMc-eervtoe group
funded by the manufacturers of
mtdidrmr
her handicap, the more effec-
tfvrtKft Wtir te in rearing
that child. And the more likely
the child will be to lead a hap-
py and fulfilling Ufa.
(NtXJ. Older parents)
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