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Your article on foreigners buying land [Jan. 8] states that "the only U.S. tax that a nonresident alien owner escapes is on capital gains if he sells his land." This doesn't tell the whole story. Nonresident aliens also pay less estate tax to the U.S. For example, in 1979, on a taxable estate of $500,000, the U.S. citizen or resident pays estate tax of $117,800; the nonresident alien pays only $50,400. This is outrageous. U.S. tax law should not discriminate in favor of the foreign investor...
...understands completely the meaning of $531.6 billion. The arguments last week about Jimmy Carter's national budget were surrealistic political rituals designed more for personal identity by the combatants than real evaluation of where we are headed. The AFL-CIO's George Meany stormed that the whole budget was an attack on "average Americans." Former Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Wilbur Cohen called the small adjustments in Social Security "tragic, unsound." And by the end of the week, Congress's Black Caucus had declared the budget "immoral." Each critic seemed blindfolded, feeling a leg of the elephant...
...complex public issue, with all its confusions, turmoil and intensity, and trying to pull together the human resources to deal with it." Thus did Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller explain his political outlook during his confirmation hearings for Vice President in 1974. The words also summed up his whole political career, from his apprenticeship under a Democratic Administration to his four terms as New York Governor to his last moments in the limelight during a brief stint as Vice President. He truly loved problems and, with an exuberant confidence that few politicians could match, he thought he could solve most of them...
...neat turnaround on Proposition 13, plus his call for a Constitutional amendment mandating a balanced U.S. budget, Brown has Carter worried over the religious issue. Carter may have the support of the Fundamentalists, the Born-Again folk, but Brown taps the Tao, culls the Zen support, rides the whole neo-Eastern-religious-cultists-pseudo-mystical wave. And Carter can scarcely forget that out of the last ten or so primaries in 1976 he only won a handful, and lost every head-to-head match he had with Brown...
...what words he is able to pronounce.) Could Buckley be in on the plot? But Buckley's brother was a Republican Senator from the same state at the same time as noted liberal-Republican-visibly-Jewish-Zionist Jacob Javits. And Javits was friends with Rockefeller and Kissinger, and the whole Trilateral cabal, and the European bankers and the anti-Third Worlders. What does it all mean...