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Show 9 jbutUtO-f But 9 Jteanti By STEVE WILLIAMS Folks walking past The News office can "see" us now. The last couple of days the weather has been so balmy, The Boss figured spring was here, and gave the front windows their annual swabbing down. Frankly, we had forgotten how bright the world can look even while we're working. The Boss says she might have figured Milford was the only community having street drainage drain-age troubles, until she saw the front page Tribune photo Wednesday Wed-nesday morning, showing a few kids having a whale of a time in knee-deep water. Guess we aren't so bad off after all, she sez. A S7500 a year raise is "good" for the politicians, but a $20 a' year tax cut is "bad" for the little fellow. ? ? ? ? "Income Tax Blues," a column col-umn by Don Robinson in The American Press, seemed so good to us, we decided to let Don be our guest-columnist this week, and pass his opinions on to our readers. He wrote: "After reading these instructions instruc-tions you should be able to prepare pre-pare your own return." That .statement-in the new income in-come tax forms might be interpreted inter-preted as a challenge ... a test to determine i'f you are of normal nor-mal intelligence according to Treasury Department standards. stand-ards. And, after delving further fur-ther into the situation, I am ready to admit a rating of first degree moron. V But I have a suggestion. It seems to me that if the tax laws are supposed to be written so we taxpayers can prepare our own returns without help (instead (in-stead of being written for the benefit of countless lawyers and accountants who make the major portion of their living from the complications of tax laws), the first place to lest the simplicity of the laws is among those who write them. e So I would like to suggest the following amendment to the tax laws: "Every member of Congress Con-gress must prepare his own return re-turn without any outside help whatsoever." And perhaps it would help even more if it were required that the return, every other year, be prepared entirely by the Congressman's wife. It seems to me that the new tax blanks and accompanying instructions are the most complicated com-plicated and exasperating we have ever had to face. And I thinli it is about lime the voters rose up in protest. The A E C boys are still trying try-ing to find the right weather down in Nevada so they can sot off their "granddaddy" atom blast. When it goer:, it's .supposed .sup-posed to rattle windows almost as far a:; Timbiicfoo. This week fh'-y set off another an-other of the smaller blasts, and the mushroom cloud floated over inlo Southern Utah, but ;io dangerous radioactive fallout fall-out was reported. |