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Several of Reagan's advisers think the President should distance himself from the House panel's bill and let it die quietly. They oppose many parts of the legislation, including the new maximum tax rates for individuals and businesses. But many politicians think that Treasury Secretary James Baker, a noted pragmatist, will persuade the President to go along with the plan. Reagan wants to leave behind a legacy of tax reform, and the Ways and Means proposal is the only tax bill in town. If the President helps push it through the House, there is still an opportunity to make...
...some areas, the House panel's plan is the same as that put forth by the Administration. Both, for example, want to repeal the investment tax credit, which currently enables companies to take immediate deductions of as much as 10% of spending on plant and equipment. Both proposals would also curtail the accelerated cost recovery system, which now enables businesses to depreciate their assets rapidly...
Elsewhere, though, the Ways and Means plan gets tougher on businesses. While the Administration wanted to lower the maximum corporate tax rate from 46% to 33%, the House panel would drop it to 36%. The committee's proposal would raise the top tax rate for capital gains, which is the money that taxpayers earn on growing investments like corporate stock. Reagan's plan would have cut the maximum tax rate from 20% to 17.5%, but the new proposal would boost...
...Camels he puffed so prodigiously fueled his addiction and thus killed him. But last week a jury in Santa Barbara, Calif., voted 9 to 3 that Galbraith's lawyer Melvin Belli had not proved that smoking necessarily caused Galbraith's death or that he was a tobacco addict. The panel of eleven nonsmokers and one smoker agreed with Reynolds' attorney Thomas Workman that Galbraith "smoked because he loved it. He knew the risks involved and took them...
...make unannounced hangar visits to check whether needed repairs have been done. P.S.A. has also installed a cockpit system that projects speed, altitude and other essential data directly onto the lower part of the windshield. The device allows pilots to look straight ahead, rather than down at the control panel, while taking off and landing...