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...Those were the days," joked U.S. Representative Anthony C. Beilenson '54 (D-Calif.), pretending to reminisce...
...proponents have assembled no real constituency. "This is not a tax that is very popular back home, but what tax is?" says Representative Anthony Beilenson, a California Democrat who since 1985 has introduced two bills to raise the gasoline tax. Both have gone nowhere. The undaunted Beilenson plans to try again in 1989. "The math just calls out for taxes," he says, "and this is one of the simplest ones around." Says John Gore, a Washington representative of British Petroleum: "Nobody's pushing for a higher gas tax, but it seems to have a life...
...recrimination and finger pointing, both sides will have to agree to raise taxes or cut some $30 billion to $40 billion from cherished defense and social programs. "It's fairly likely that a modest increase in the gasoline tax will be included" in whatever package emerges, says California's Beilenson. "You've got to have something that's wrapped up with a solution for a bigger problem to provide political cover." If that cover proves secure enough, "gas tax" just might be words that George Bush would pronounce...
...some, like the sale of U.S. arms to Iran authorized by a January 1986 finding, were kept secret.) Several legislators believe the number of known findings is more than in any previous Administration. More important, the operations have grown steadily in size, importance and cost. Covert operations, says Anthony Beilenson, a California Democrat who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, are a "much bigger portion of the foreign policy pie than ever before...
ANTHONY C. BEILENSON...