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...concept of tax shelters is in many ways symptomatic of the whole illness. All of them originated in congressional proposals to use tax laws for economic or social purposes. When Congress wanted to encourage oil exploration, it granted the oil-depletion allowance that originally permitted drillers to write off their first 27½% of profits; when it wanted to encourage ordinary citizens to arrange their own pensions, it authorized Individual Retirement Accounts and Keogh plans, which exempt certain types of savings and investments from taxation. Even the exemption for the interest on home mortgages is a form of tax shelter...
...entire 15-year pontificate. Both Elizabeth and John Paul were traveling new roads last week, and chronicling their caravans proved especially challenging for TIME'S reportorial teams. Los Angeles Correspondent Alessandra Stanley was drenched by torrential California rains while she followed the Queen. At one point she sought shelter under a Secret Service man's umbrella. Says Stanley: "Wherever he is, I thank him." But she did not find the foul weather her biggest frustration. "Reporters," she says, "are accustomed to covering politicians, show-business personalities, even celebrity convicts, who talk to the media. But the Queen doesn...
...October the county cut off all cash grants and food stamps to single, employable adults without children who were applying for welfare, and instead began offering basic room and board in its Bannon Street shelter. It is the first poorhouse established in California since the institution fell into disrepute in the mid-1930s. House rules are strict: residents are awakened every day at 6 a.m. and receive a "bed check" at 9 p.m. Liquor, drugs and sex are forbidden, and smoking is not allowed in the dormitories. For entertainment, the shelter provides Bible classes and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings...
County officials, who avoid the word poorhouse, maintain that their emergency shelter is better than the usual alternative facing the poor: having to live in seedy and often dangerous transient hotels. Says Hart: "Here at least you can get a hot meal and clothes and not be worried about getting mugged." In addition, he says, the shelter, which is run on a contract basis by a Christian service organization called the Volunteers of America, is achieving the desired effect: trimming the county's dole roll. In November 1981 the county had 805 applicants for welfare. In November 1982, shortly...
...present absence of definite, sizeable government action to aid the homeless seems to be disappearing. As a Shelter representative told the city councillors, it has recently become "chic" to help transients...