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...compliance difficult ("It has got to the point where professionals like myself cannot be competent in all areas and are beginning to specialize within specialties"), but it requires unrealistic levels of sophistication among agents and examiners. Even worse, it fosters the impression that paying taxes is a game, whose object is to beat the system. "There is no substitute for a simple, less bulky and more understandable tax structure," says Mansfield. "As it stands now, a person observes a neighbor cheating and thinks, 'Why not?' Tax evasion feeds upon itself...
From the day they are born to the day they die, members of the British royal family live off the working citizens of their country. The Queen and her family should not object to the interest they generate. The people have a right to see what they are paying...
...with the help of a piece of pipe. Their friend and co-worker, William Turks, whose arm was in a cast, was not so lucky. The whites dragged him from the car, and killed him with what was officially described as "overlapping blows to the head by a blunt object like a stick or rod, or even a foot...
...scores of lobbyists from companies with contracts to build new weapons systems. Even though it was Friday afternoon, a time when most members have either headed home or gone out to campaign for President, the special hearing called by the Senate Armed Services Committee last week was packed. The object of interest: a young bureaucrat who had finally been freed from his drab office on the second floor of the C-ring of the Pentagon in order to present his maverick assessment of the underlying problems of defense planning and weapons procurement...
Ever since he started putting people in mind of Jim Brown, which is ever since he started, Walker has been the object of enough philistine affections to know the National Collegiate Athletic Association's book of rules and manners. Merely by negotiating, emphatically by signing, he met the N.C.A.A.'s classic criteria of a pro. The Canadian Football League romanced Walker two years ago. The N.C.A.A. permits a man to hear an offer. More recently Chicago Blitz Coach George Allen, never one to wait for a draft choice in his National Football League days, simply mailed Walker...