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Show Kt 10 A DESERET NEWS, MONDAY, MAY h 21. 1773 Reagan relying on his charm to pass new tax plan SACRAMENTO, CALIF. Gov. Ronald Reagan (AP) took office 6 years ago as an evangelistic citizen-politicia- n bent on whittling dow the size and cost of state government. The Republican chief executive tried to work his economies in traditional ways and met with limited success. Today, nearing the end of his second and final term, Reagan says there is only one w,y to control government: by limiting the amount of money it collects in the first place. He is embarked on a program of writing strict tax controls into the state constitution over a period. If the plan works, says Reagan, it could show the way for bringing federal spending in check. Back in 1967, a political columnist portrayed the new governor satirically as a knight-erran- t, hurling lances at the vast state bureaucracy and slashing away vainly at the dragonlike state budget. But economy Reagans efforts proved more than just tilting at windmills. Today, California has 115,000 civil servants, 600 fewer tha It did in 1967. Reagan has vetoed more than $1 billion in spending bills and claimed savings of hundreds of millions through welfare reforms now being copied by the Nixon administration. But state government has grown inexorably. Under Reagan, there have been three major tax increases totaling $3.5 billion annually, and the budget has doubled to $9.2 billion a year. Reagan now has concluded that an inherently spendthrift government will not control itself, so the people must do it. Thus, the Republican govern nor has donned his hat again and turned to his ultimate weapon, his personal charm and appeal with the voters, in a major effort to curb state spending. citizen-politicia- state constitutional lid on the total amount of taxes the state could collect from the people. In another unorthodox move, he is bypassing a hostile legislature and qualifying the proposed amendment for the ballot through the initiative petition process federal government if the plan works in the nation's most populous state. would This has prompted Reagans political foes to claim he is using the plan as a platform from which to run for President. Reagan replies that he First, Reagan has to qualify the issue for a special statewide election he would call on Nov. 6, at a cost of $2.9 million have waited another year, closer to the 1976 election, if that were the case. to $3.5 million. Reagan supporters now are circulating petitions, seeking more than 520,000 signatures of registered voters by late May. That is the practical deadline for qualifying such an issue for a November election date. critics legisla- Domestic-controlle- d ture argue that his tax control plan would: small os S, 10,1 00 !b. lots KETCHUMS popu- lar but simplistic approach to a complex problem. 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