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Show GOP Has a 1 Jake By Kick Brough If a Republican spots a drowning man, goes the old joke, he'll sell him a rope. That image of the business-oriented, country club GOP irks Sen. Jake Garn, who is running for a second term this year. "It's simply Democratic election-year election-year politics one of the most ridiculous political charges that's ever been perpetrated," he said. "I personally don't like it. I'll match my concern for other people with anyone's." The Republican philosophy, phil-osophy, Garn said, believes be-lieves in taking care of people by providing them with jobs and training, "rather than the Democratic philosophy of taking away money in the form of higher taxes and giving it back as the dole." In a recent interview with The Newspaper, Garn said the Republican program to cut taxes and balance the budget can work. And by promoting this and other ideas, GOP conservatives are gaining on the liberal Democratic Congress. That, he said, has been responsible for inflation. Congress, he noted, "has been like a little kid who makes a mess and then wants credit for cleaning it up." In other issues: The Utah senator countered coun-tered charges from Democrats that he was a do-nothing do-nothing senator, citing his diligent work behind the scenes on legislation and an attendance of 92 or over. Garn said U.S. efforts to bolster the military would not start with the Soviet Union. "There has already been an arms race going on, but we haven't been participating," par-ticipating," he said. He said he supports MX, but will continue to work to modify the basing mode. He preferred to see them installed, in-stalled, he said, vertically in renovated Minuteman silos. Garn was confident that pollution controls would continue con-tinue to improve. Meanwhile, Mean-while, he asserted, the country's coun-try's energy needs should be filled through a variety of means, including nuclear power, which he said has an "incredibly safe" performance perfor-mance record. The Democrats, said Been in the News Lately? If your pictue has been in The Newspaper let us make you a print ! An 8 x 10, black & white enlargement is only $4.00. Each additional print only $2.00. For prints contact: The Newspaper office 419 Main or call 649-9014 Garn Garn, "give money back to people to try and buy their votes." Jobs in the public sector, he noted, give no pride or incentive. "They're just passing back money." The government cannot help the truly needy, the senator claimed, because money is spread too thin, with benefits going to those who are young and healthy. "You see an elderly person like my mother 82 when she died trying to struggle along on a $180-a-month Social Security check," he noted. "She lived in a house for 40 years that was paid for, and one-third of her total annual income went for property taxes. And there are many in that category." "And we've got some 24-year-old kid from California, buying $14-a-day lift passes at Snowbird, on food stamps and unemployment." Democrats who have controlled con-trolled Congress for 42 out of 48 years, and for the last 25 consecutive years, are in trouble. Republicans won more Senate seats than Democrats did in 1976, Garn said, and won 20 out of 35 Senate races in 1978. The Democrats, Garn said, recognized political reality by recently introducing in-troducing their fifth economic plan in 3' i years. The senator called it "an obvious ob-vious political response" to a Republican tax plan to cut taxes and expenditures that was introduced three years ago by 41 GOP senators. It has, he said, been annually rejected by the Democrats. He denies the program's 10 tax cut for individuals is a bonus for the wealthy. "It gets much more complicated than that. We're not cutting an individual's taxes. We're cutting the effective tax rates by 10," Garn said. Democrats have said the GOP program will fuel inflation, in-flation, and claim it can't fulfill its promise to decrease overall spending and increase defense spending. spend-ing. But Garn again disagrees; tax cuts will not stimulate inflation if tied to expenditure cuts, he said. And, if properly structured, they will return the investment. invest-ment. "John Kennedy in 1962 showed that a carefully structured tax cut produces more revenue than it loses," Heart, he said. "The Hansen-StcitT Hansen-StcitT nil "I iun u'iirs ;inu has already produced inure than $1 billion over what was cut." The Republican plan, phased over three years, also affords faster depreciation de-preciation write-offs and investment tax credits to stimulate productivity, he noted. The U.S. needs more defense spending, said Garn, because it has fallen from military superiority to equality, while Russia continues con-tinues to build up her defense. de-fense. Garn claimed that, far from inciting an arms race, "The U.S. has made unilateral concessions over and over and over again." The U.S. he said, cancelled the B-l bomber, stopped production of ICBMs, and is not replacing combatant ships and tactical aircraft as fast as they go out of existence. "The Soviets are building up their military as rapidly as they possibly can," he said. "We haven't deployed more than 1,050 ICBMs since 1967. The Soviets have gone from 500 to 1,600." "Jimmy Carter is trying to prove his defense manhood by pushing MX," said Garn, but the Utahn, who first studied it on the Military Research and Development Sub-committee over 3' years ago, thinks some changes could be made. Garn believes we need the MX. The Soviets have developed five new missiles since we deployed Minute-man Minute-man Three and are researching re-searching four more, he said. "But President Carter didn't select the right basing mode. It's on the record 3' years ago that I recommended recommen-ded a vertical mode. The MXs would be put in existing Minuteman silos, with modifications, and would be protected by an anti-ballistic missile system." The Air Force also recommended the vertical mode, said Garn, but were over-ruled in favor of the horizontal racetrack race-track system. "I thought it was ridiculous, too costly, and wouldn't work," he said. The new linear system, he said, saves $2 billion and is a step in the right direction. But he vows to push for serious study, of split deployment. "The Minute-man Minute-man Three was placed in seven states Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, and others to diminish the socioeconom ic environmental impact," he said. And Ronald Reagan has promised to review the entire MX mode if he is elected. elec-ted. Another important issue of the '80s will be the need to maintain control of pollution while searching for new energy. Garn is confident on both counts. While some may despair at the sight of smog clouds hanging over the Oquirrh Mountains in the Salt Lake Valley, Garn said that conditions were rr.jch worse in his childhood, when the valley ran on coal. Even on the East Bench, where he lived, clothes could not be hung out on certain days when the coal soot hung low. Snow was constantly dirty. "We've made remarkable progress and should con Street Says tinue to work to clean it up." he said. Garn recommends pursuing pur-suing several sources for our energy needs geothermal, solar, and nuclear. Atomic power, he said, has saved consumers a great deal of money and cut down our dependence on OPEC oil. "I don't understand why people are so vehement against something that has a better safety record than a lot of things they live with every day." There was design error and gross human error at Three Mile Island, said Garn, yet no one was injured, in-jured, significant amounts of radiation escaped ("It would have been a disaster in Russia with their technology") tech-nology") and nuclear policy is being re-shaped to avoid further incidents. Worse hazards surround us, he insists. "It's far more dangerous to have a chlorine tanker pass through your town," he said. "There are more than 25,000 people killed on the roads from drunken driving. Some of the very people who are out protesting nuclear plants, placing their bodies in front of people, are stoned on drugs, alcohol or something else." Garn responded to three criticisms of his personal conduct in office: 1 ) The senator, charge critics, has alienated his Senate colleagues with his acerbic remarks. "Some things never die," Garn said with a smile. In 1975, Garn recalled, he call Sen. Ted Kennedy a "prima donna" on a local TV show. The statement appeared later in the "Los Angeles Times" and observers asked, "Will this affect Jake Garn's performance?" per-formance?" "I went to Teddy," said the senator, "and told him, i think you should know I said some things about you on TV'-'What did you say about me' 'I said you were a prima donna' And Teddy said, 'Is that all?'" "Let me give you another example. I've battled Sen. John Culver over the table on the Armed Services Committee. We've debated opposite sides of SALT II on TV. We rarely agree on anything. But he is one of my best friends in the Senate." 2) Garn has received flak for taking paid speech engagements before banking groups while he serves on the Senate Banking Committee. Commit-tee. "Those speeches are fully disclosed," he responded. respon-ded. "They're not paid with taxpayer money, and they're legal under the Federal Election Commission rules and Senate ethics code." Democrats frequently have traveled the banquet circuit, Garn points out, and one of the champion speakers of all time was Hubert Humphrey. 3) Garn's tenure, his opponents op-ponents charge, has been marked by frequent absences absen-ces and a perennial failure to pass any kind of legislation. But the senator responds that his average attendance each year in Congressional sessions was never less than 90. His record so far in this frantic election year is 95. "And Sen. Proxmire (chairman (chair-man of the Banking Com Fltll gfgjyiden Lea U Stars Will Be Shining in 'Once Upon a Mattress Milk .riuln (n- is i'i Ui'i.lu-I mil i.im."iiii- is . I.ii I'.itl " iU tin 'In- miiMral J"' . i.n Hmmi, i.iuiitp. hi .ink .i,,.iit.'ilh i hui I. K"lhiTlh .I 1.1 ;ih mli iiihI Hi,- k OK l.iii.l.. Merlin ns. 'Ml V Hill IIIVSIIil III.'. 1 ins. 1 X.i.i I..H Garn mittee) will verily that my attendance at those sessions is second only to his," said the L'tahn. As for legislation, "the absolute ab-solute worst measure of a senator or congressman is the quantity of hills he sponsors." spon-sors." said Garn. "Scoop Jackson, for instance, is recognized as an influential senator, but doesn't have a huge number of hills to his credit." Another factor, he said, is that a bill doesn't openly give credit many times to the legislator who worked on it in committee. He cited the Financial Institutions Deregulation Act of 1979. "Nobody can take credit for that," he said, "because it was an omnibus bill" a compilation of several legislators' proposals. The Truth in Lending Simplification Sim-plification section of the bill was his. said the senator, plus a lew other provisions. Garn and Sen. Birch Bayh worked out provisions for the Foreign Wiretap Bill, the senator said. A Garn amendment amend-ment before the Foreign Aid Appropriations Subcommittee Sub-committee chopped $1.4 billion from a recent budget. And, Garn asserts, if his budget votes had prevailed in Congress, $220 billion would have been saved over the last six years. The senator doesn't think the GOP will take over the Senate in the 1980 elections, but sees it as a possibility for 1982. If that happens, Garn as ranking minority member would likely become chairman chair-man of the Banking Committee, Commit-tee, and perhaps even chair the Defense Appropriations Sub-committee. Garn has encountered frustrations during his term in office. He's had run-ins with consumer advocate Ralph Nader. ("I consider him a demagogue," he said. "He likes power, attention, and publicity. Many times, his research is incredibly poor.") He sees waste in almost every agency of government, from Defense to HUD to the food stamps program. But his top candidate can-didate is the Department of Energy. "It has 22,000 employees em-ployees and spends more than $10 billion a year, which 1 is more than all the oil companies com-panies combined spend looking for oil," he said. His biggest disappointment is "the frustration of seeing a Congress that overspends tremendously and is responsible respon-sible for most of the economic problems of this country." He is proud, in the legislative arena, of his efforts ef-forts on behalf of national defense. But his finest accomplishment, ac-complishment, he said, is the kind of service he's afforded to constituents. "Everything "Every-thing from helping a retired little old lady find a Social Security check; to getting a young man transferred from a federal prison where he was very much abused; to helping a small town in southern Utah get a water and sewer grant." Sen. E. J. "Jake" Garn comes equipped with six years of experience and a firm array of opinions. 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