Show (Pgftett gtanfiarft-i:xaroffl- gr -- McGrory Reagan remains cool in a taxing summer WASHINGTON — You can’t go wrong by EDITORIAL r ' Reagan fights for tax increase President Reagan is in the throes of what may turn out to be his toughest assignment since taking office: calming troubled waters and reversing e bill opinions over his — a measure that has split the Republicans wide apart Reagan must be embarrassed by the defections in his own party The Democrats are loving it Reagan is said to leave many matters to subordinates But in this instance he took matters into his own hands He has been using some of tax-hik- the Reagan personal per- And he placed his former political director Lyn Nofzi-ge- r in charge of conducting the lobbying effort even though Nofziger opposed the tax bill a week ago It was Reagan who convinced Nofziger to change his mind The president also may make a nationally broadcast address to the nation on the topic the same thing he did last July during the White House offensive to win passage of a bill to cut taxes by 25 percent over 33 months If he follows the same script Reagan will ask constituents to deluge their congressmen with so many telegrams and telephone calls that Congress will be afraid to ignore the message from back suasiveness for more than a week in his quest to convince Congress to pass a bill to increase taxes by $989 billion over three years home This time around the presiThis has been a tough call so went dent far as to delay a for Reagan and he is the first to admit it goes against his vacation to stage an blitz grain Being the pragmatist So instead of riding his be- that he is he has accepted the loved horses at his ranch near realities brought forth in Santa Barbara Calif the pre- warnings from the financial sident has remained in the community and the economWhite House ushering in ists who express fears of ever-highdeficits and more inflagroup after group of Republi-ca- n that if the bill fails congressmen for pep tion talks interest rates will shoot up So far some have emerged Whether the Reagan charm saying they have been can pull this one off remains arm-twisti- ng er swayed He did journey into Monta- na for some electioneering Wednesday but his tax hike campaign was on his mind as he made calls to GOP congressmen while in flight on Air Force One The Reagan style doesn’t stop with congressmen however He also has met with business leaders who support the bill such as Chrysler Corp Chairman Lee Iacocca to be seen His role is crucial He wants to get the bargaining over with and passage completed so that the lawmakers can recess Aug 20 and proceed with the business of campaigning for the fall elections Reagan has yet to sufferis-a major loss on economic sues It will be interesting to observe his political acumen at work in the coming week No international crisis here When two Soviets visited Ogden last week they made contact with one of the community’s most polished ambassadors: Marge Bailey office manager of the Ogden Area Chamber of Commerce There was absolutely no danger of sparking an international incident as long as our Soviet visitors were in the efficient stead of Ms Bailey She greeted them politely and was helpful in providing them superficial information about the Ogden area Across the country in the Long Island community of Glen Cove NY it is a much different saga There is an honest-to-goodne- telling people what they are already thinking or asking them for something they have already given you That’s what Ronald Reagan did at his last press conference The president knows from his pollster Richard Wirthlin pretty much how the American people feel about him so whenever Reagan could he did what the technicians call “rein- RtCHMPUDTlMES OlSPSlCrt ©1982 F1UD ' forcing” In his opening statement for instance he spoke of his wish that economic recovery “could be easier and faster” But he immediately swung into a line he knows strikes a chord in the country: “It’s tough slow work and it’s going to require enormous effort and patience from every one of us” Wirthlin has told him that he has what every president dreams of and seldom achieves: “a pool of patience” The end of the sentence was also provided by Wirthlin: “to correct the problems we in- herited” That was easy too Wirthlin’s surveys show that a majority of Americans think that present economic worries are “the result of years and years of the wrong course and that the Congress shares the responsibility” Reagan cannot of course hide or disguise what is happening 16 months into his administration The recession high unemployment figures and business failures are not classified material But he can apparently get away with saying that it’s because he did not get what he wanted When he signed the two principal instruments of his economic revolution the budget reconciliation and tax bill of 1982 no one heard him say that he had gotten half a loaf In fact the signings were triumphal occasions at which he hailed “the single most important achievement” of his young administration achieved through a marvelous bipartisan coalition in Congress But hear Reagan in the Oval Office last week: “I can say back to them all right then why don’t you just give us what we’ve asked for” Congress thought it had But from Wirthlin’s whispers Reagan knew he did not have to be tethered to the facts Wirthlin checked around in May and found that of 1502 voters who were asked how much of Reagan’s economic program has been passed 43 percent said they thought about half 34 percent thought it was “less than half” Why should he not splash about in his “pool of patience” until the word gets out? Reagan’s greatest luck of course is that the people have not yet made the connection between him and his policies They do not blame him for what is happening even it seems on the unemployment lines courts and golf course In retaliation the Soviets have imposed some similar sanctions against American diplomats inside Russia All sounds pretty silly doesn’t it? A constitutional wow Remit LATELY YOU He represented to them when they voted for him promise and hope The prospect of lower taxes less regulation and less government spending sounded like the promised land to them To give up on him so soon would be a way of giving up on themselves Wirthlin thinks As if the people were not giving the president enough the Democrats gave him more last week They decided to accept as is a Senate bill that would raise $99 billion over three-year a period and go right to conference with it — even though the Constitution says that revenue-raisin- g bills should originate in the tax-refor- m House The Democrats only noticed that the bill is the work of a Republican senator Robert Dole of Kansas They did not take in the wonder of it which is that it is fair It takes raw courage to raise taxes in an election year especially for Republicans and the right wing is outraged charging that “the Republican Party is in danback to its familiar role ger of making a of tax collector for Democratic spending progU-tu- m rams” But the Democrats it appears do not have the advantage of Wirthlin’s counsels If they had they might not have been so fast off the Maryland-Nation- controversy is currently court in rooms of Maryland The unfolding the outcome will directly impact on all of our lives The ultimate decision by the Supreme Court will actually determine if our United States Constitution is still the law of the land A decision in favor of the Constitution will trigger a return to honest money It is inconceivable that this case is not receiving nation- wide press coverage The case involves the strongest challenge yet to the states flagrant violation of Article I Section 10 of our Constitution which clearly directs that “No State shall Make any Thing but Gold and Silver Coin a Tender in Payment issue is the payment of money for land owned al The issue of fairness is their strongest campaign weapon Out there voters have thought from the first that Reagan is soft on the rich Wirthlin calls unfairness the president’s “most severe perceptual liability” The Democrats had a chance to make the new taxes even fairer But all they saw was a Republican tax bill 90 days before the fall election and a chance for a little campaign gloating in the Only Rep James Shannon Democratic caucus of the Ways and Means Committee voted against sending the measure to conference He argued that the House could make a good bill better and share responsibility for a responsible action His colleagues would have none of it “We ought to stop trying to be so damn cute on every issue” says Shannon “We want it both ways We say we want lower deficits but it isn’t our tax bill — don’t blame us” The Democrats’ campaign slogan is “It isn’t fair — it’s Republican” Now they have chopped it in half You can call the tax bill Republican but you can’t call it unfair As Wirthlin keeps telling him Reagan’s luck is phenomenal D-Ma- ss UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE tion before the Supreme Court of the United States Ultimately the law of the land (our Constition) must prevail It was Roosevelt who took us off gold and in 1968 we went off silver It was then that we became a country using fiat irredeemable currency Decades of “national inflation caused by too much paper money not backed by gold or silver” have followed Since the news media is not giving this story the coverage it deserves anyone interested in following the case may write to Dick Solyom PO Box 226 Fort Lee NJ 07024 He is available for interviews to newspapers on talk 7 shows at: (201) Let’s get behind this is who man courageous fighting for all of us to restore an honest money system that can no longer be manipulated by the handful of international bankers who own the Federal Reserve Issie Cantor 224-603- Irresponsible driving ss crisis with tensions Ogden running high all because of the presence of Russian dip- DOONESBURY Seems the Glen Cove city dads are miffed because the town is losing tax money from a mansion tax ex- mi lomats rrs all OVER BABE NOW YOU CAN 49-roo- m stop worrying empt because of diplomatic status and used by the Soviets Glen Cove officials took by Garry Trudeau i im afraid imrswpimmNe UNTIL TUB RESULTS APB IN ANP IF CHECKOUT IHENl HAVE em I START WomiNB ABOUT PRETO NATAL CARE WHAT? 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Pipe dreams There are enough CUJW" the people Using its powers of condemnation the Capitol Park & Planning Commission seized the land for a park While Solyom accepts the amount of money offered by the state as fair compensation for the land the principle at the heart of the struggle is Solyom’s belief in a monetary system based on honest money Solyom is demanding that the State of Maryland pay for the property it has taken away from him in constitutionally-approve- d currency not Federal Reserve notes that are backed by neither gold nor silver Already several authorities on constitutional law and the Federal Reserve as well as experts on hard money and the use of the gold standard have prepared testimony for Solyom At least one Senator and one Representative are considering filing a brief in Solyom’s behalf Solyom and his attorney intend to pursue the constitutional question at every step up the judicial ladder which will lead Richard Solyom and his copy of the Constitu- - Ogden SEEM TO UAVE mark by Solyom a retired engineer Perhaps the Glen Cove officials should take a lesson from Ogden’s gracious Ms Bailey: treat Russian visitors Debts” courteously rather than at- of Richard of Fort Lee NJ has tempt to conduct their own decided to LtakeSolyom the Federal Reserve Sysbrand of foreign affairs A lit- tem and is going on into battle with the Constitutle diplomacy can go a long tion of the United States under his arm At way "YOU Voice of Fight for constitutional currency matters in their own hands They banned the Russians from local beaches tennis W1HTO51NC under- ground pipelines in the United States to build a line to the moon and back — with pipe left over Paul Harvey The numbers really do not The headlines cannot agree as to whether the recession is worsening or behind us What do the numbers say? The numbers say: Before Reagan our dollar was shrinking 13 cents a year today it’s shrinking at an annual rate of less than 6 cents Gasoline is selling for 7 1:2 cents less than a year ago Interest rates were more than 21 percent today 15 A year ago Americans were saving less than 5 percent of their earnings today more than 6 percent A year ago federal spending was increasing 14 percent a year today less than half that bot-toming-- Waste and fraud in government is $2 billion less than a year ago and 8500 dead people are no longer collecting Social Security Unemployment 9:8 percent And our country’s total employment is near or at an e record high all-tim- esides we can hardly blame for Reaganomics something that is worse most every elsewhere In Italy unemployment is 99 percent in Britain 118 in Ireland 12 percent in Belgium more than 13 percent Partisan politicians have been helping you forget that auto workers were 20 percent unemployed before Reagan unemployment in construction was more reflect Reaganomics so far than 14 percent before Reagan Car companies are profitable again Ford especially And housing starts are inching up as interest rates moderate Our nation’s GNP total output of goods and services increased the second quarter a respectable 17 percent Our economy is growing again for the first time in a year Our index of leading indicators held steadily last month Indeed were it not for the roller-coaststock market that index would have er increased Both hourly earnings and spendable income are up from a year ago White collar pay for the first time since 1979 is increasing faster than the cost of living And while Americans are depicted by some headline writers as hungry and deprived Americans this year are spending $262 billion on recreation that’s more than our government spends on national defense Just video products alone this year are a $92 billion business And Illinois state lottery sales are running 55 percent ahead of a year ago Again as Mark Twain is said to have said about Richard Wagner’s music “It’s not nearly as bad as it sounds Los Angeles Times Syndicate It is very true that driving on a narrow winding road is literally like taking your life into your own hands However I am convinced that my odds for a safer trip are increased with the frequency in which I travel any given road I live in Ogden Canyon and travel that highway every day by necessity twice a day In Ogden Canyon I consider myself a knowledgeable and cautious driver since I’m generally aware of the road and traffic conditions I also express that same confidence in the members of my family My cousin who is visiting from out of town has driven the canyon countless times She and my sister took my car to town to see a movie About a mile into the canyon as they returned home my cousin looked up to see “nothing but headlights!” There was a car in the middle of the road coming straight for them She swerved drastically enough to avoid a head-o- n collision but not enough to side escape being swiped Had my cousin not swerved they would have been in a very serious accident I think it is a small miracle that she and my sister made it the rest of the two miles safely — they were that emotionally shaken up The fact that my white car now has a blue gouge down half its length doesn’t aggrevate me as much as does the fact that the driver of the other car did not stop One might argue that perhaps he wasn’t fully aware that he’d hit another car Small chance He nearly hit them head on and his headlight was broken out by the impact How irresponsible and inconsiderate some people can be! First they have the nerve to drive in the middle of a very narrow and busy road Then they totally avoid any responsibility to anyone for their haphazard actions Have I really put too much faith in society to think that a hit and run accident such as this won’t happen? Suppose there had been a serious then would the other driver injury involved have stopped? Steve Fifield Mora letters on poge 3A |