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Baker's job may be made easier by the mood in Congress, which seems receptive to some sort of flat tax. Each party has introduced its variant: a Republican version sponsored by Congressman Jack Kemp of New York and Senator Robert Kasten of Wisconsin, and a Democratic one by Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Congressman Richard Gephardt of Missouri. The Baker-Regan duo may be able to provide the critical missing ingredient: enough muscle to persuade the President to provide personal, up-front leadership on the issue. "It will be a treeless plain with every special-interest group...
...lobbyists for just about everything from corporations to charities are still determined to kill or alter it. The special interests love the brier patch of the current tax code, which takes up 33 feet of shelf space and has enough shadowy havens to hide almost anything. "It was easier to get tax legislation than take other action," says Chapoton. Before long, the U.S. tax system was setting industrial policy. "Investments were being based on tax considerations," explains Egger. "Prices in real estate became of no concern. Tax benefits were being sold." Decisions in business, Egger points out, "should be based...
...outraged the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Rev. Joseph Lowery. "When someone sworn to uphold the law raises money to help a lawless individual, somebody ought to check into that," he said. "We want to make a hero out of Goetz, which was made a little easier because the four victims were black. Do we long for the days of Wyatt Earp and Dodge City? That's where we're headed...
Loury said the council asked the President and meeting chairman Edwin R. Meese III for policy changes, including the promotion of private ownership of public housing, funding to enable poor Black children to attend private schools, and a reform in the foster care system, making it easier for low income persons to adopt children in public charge...
...asked them for help," said Cabot Librarian Alan F. Erickson, who added that "it's a little bit easier to follow the copyright procedures now" than when the laws first appeared...