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...between--with Chinese flint boxes, fernwood statues and Ashanti artifacts in the window--sits TePaske and Hurst, the art gallery that opened last fall in the building that for 50 years had housed the Gold Coast Laundry...
...President has promised income tax cuts, and Congress has indicated its willingness to legislate at least some of them-maybe. But as many as 3,500 taxpayers in the Flint, Mich., area just cannot wait. They have been refusing to shoulder their federal burden by claiming dubious tax exemptions as clergymen, filing their 1040 forms with UNCONSTITUTIONAL! scrawled across the page or in some cases claiming as many as 99 dependents in order to reduce federal withholding from their paychecks to zero...
Dean Hazel, 28, a General Motors worker who has been a leader in the antitax movement, claims that the income tax is unconstitutional (incorrect) and that the Flint IRS office lacks the manpower to prosecute so many tax evaders at once (correct, as even the IRS concedes). But the agency has sent warnings to 1,100 people claiming unusual numbers of dependents. "Terror tactics," scoffs Hazel. "The IRS depends on fear." (Correct.) As of last week almost one-half of those receiving letters had asked their employers to resume the proper withholding...
...during economic slumps by reducing the work hours for all employees and by cutting back on perquisites. In many of its plants, consumer products giant Procter & Gamble uses semiautonomous work groups that allow employees to govern their own jobs and achieve gains in productivity. The Buick assembly plant in Flint, Mich., which once had very low quality workmanship, used the Theory Z approach in 1978 to gain the co operation of workers and their union. Within two years, the plant had be come the most efficient General Motors facility...
...drivers claim other advantages. Insists Jane Flint, a Washington advertising researcher who actually grew up in Detroit without ever learning to back or brake: "I feel I have more freedom than most of my friends, forever hopping into the car with a fabric swatch in their hands, driving the kids to the dentist when they could just as well have walked, driving back to the market to buy some forgotten item, picking up the kids from the dentist, back downtown again-this goes on all day long." Fortunately, says Flint, her children "don't have arcane tastes...