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Show Sun Advocate THIS Send America back into space Whether space is the final frontier or not, its explorations by the United States are dwindling, along with the potentialities that new ventures bring within reach. Americas space future seemed bright when Skylab III orbited the earth more than 1,200 times with astronaut Edward G. Gibson aboard. That was more than nine years ago. Skylab is history. No new versions are planned. Viking sits dark on Mars. There have been no more moon landings. Meanwhile, France and Germany plan ventures through the European Space Agency, the Japanese and Chinese have space enterprises and the Soviet Union is spending $20 billion a year on its space development. Today only 100,000 are employed. As the United States lags in space, the rest of the world shoots ahead. The truth is, America is retreating from space, says Gibson. Shortsighted special interest groups and bureaucrats are trying to end our nations involvement in space. ... Congressmen are being intensively pressured into making further catastrophic cuts in our space program. politicians rationale for scotching the space program is familiar: It means more funds for handouts, a bigger welfare state. This is really voodoo economics. It is comparable to eating seed corn and slaughtering breeder stock. Gibson points out that for every dollar spent on space exploration our nation has received $14 in return economic benefits. That is sound investment. It means new industries, products, jobs, a bigger tax base and more revenues for all government programs, including social spending. Gibson urges others who share his feelings about the value of the space program to write to him astronaut Edward Gibson, American Space Foundation, National Headquarters, Washington, D.C. 0 in order to join the foundation and its efforts to preserve Americas commitment to space. Saving the space program is a good cause. Its worth a good fight. 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IT. cm- c1984 Copley New Servcie ng 10070-039- Check IRS box for a clean race i best thing those who pay income tax can do for themselves is put a favorable check mark in the little box marked Presidential Elections Campaign on the first page of their IRS returns. A mark in the yes box will ensure that $1 will be taken from the tax payment and placed into a special government fund. If it is a joint return, another $1 can be designated for the spouse. Both major party candidates receive an identical sum from this fund money straight from citizens and not from special interest groups. By designating a dollar, a taxpayer is saying, I want part of my tax money to pay for clean elections. What taxpayers should remember is that this political fund doesnt cost them a cent. The money comes from taxes owed. The deduction doesnt add to a tax or lower a refund. No private contributions are permitted in presidential general elections to candidates who accept full public funding. This keeps the presidential candidates from having to solicit campaign gifts. Check off the contribution for yourself and your spouse, if you are filing a joint return. It is an act of The good citizenship. Summer's chance sure harbinger of spring is the report that President Reagan will again seek legislation permitting employers to pay teenagers less than the minimum wage for summer work. Last year the administration proposed a level as compared with the legal minimum of $3.35. The House, under union pressure, said no, differential would cause arguing that the e workers to lose their jobs. some The argument makes little sense. It wouldnt be e good business for an employer to fire a worker who knows his job, then hire a teenager for ll three months, provide the training that even tasks require and do it for 85 cents an hour and with full knowledge that someone else will have to be hired when summer is over. It is much more likely that an employer would consider teenagers as supplemental or seasonal help, the kind of help that he can do without but might be inclined to hire at lower pay. Understandably, labors first loyalty is to todays jobholders, but it is shortsighted to assume those jobholders can be protected by slamming and barring the door against the next generation of workers. It isnt competition that the union leaders are shutting out, it is opportunity. That is bad policy, for workers and the nation. (Reprinted with permission of The Indianapolis Star) A $2.50-an-ho- 85-ce- nt full-tim- full-tim- low-ski- ur castle country G) Let's dump income tax By BRANDON Staff FORD writer Its getting very close to April 16, the last day to file income tax returns. While most of us pay our fair share (albeit grudgingly) others go to great lengths to deprive the government of its due. For instance, a medical doctor or some other professional takes his vacation in Las Vegas. While there enjoying the shows and the dice tables and the high life, he takes time, in his hotel room, to watch video tapes on something related to his profession. '' I understand that many hotels in Las Vegas and other popular vacation spots actually have lending libraries full of such tapes to help their guests chisel the government. All the doctor or professional has to do is file or take a test from a university who is also in on this legal scam and he can write off his entire vacation. The present income tax laws allow deductions for a portion of the cost and the maintenance expenditures on a car used for business purposes. But it doesnt say what ' kind of a car. Why not get a Rolls? The government allows depreciation deductions of up to half the cost of a car to be used for business. Investment tax credits provide even more savings. A Rolls doesnt seem to be such a luxury when almost of the cost can be cut from a persons income tax bill. These tax dodges are legal under IRS rules but they are clearly abuses. And they are typical of scores of other scams and dodges hidden in the U.S. income tax code. : : Why doesnt Congress put a stop to these abuses by changing these laws? Congress does make the attempt from time to time, but when it tries to close loopholes, there are scores of lobbyists to thwart their efforts. Every time the IRS laws are revised, they get worse. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The best option, in my opinion, for stopping abuses of the tax system is to dump income taxes all together and try some kind of consumption tax. tax is For instance, the value-adde- d commonly used in Western Europe. It is similar to sales tax, except that the government levies it on goods and services two-thir- ds as they move through the production process instead of putting it all on a product at the checkout counter. result would be to encourage insaving and investment, creasing the money supply and fueling business and industrial expansion. In addition, those who earned money illegally through prostitution, dealing in would also be drugs or illegal gambling taxed. Millions of dollars every year are lost in taxes because illegal income of this kind is not declared. (By the way, the Sun Advocate received a press release from the IRS warning people that not declaring income gained by criminal means is illegal. Im not kidding One good individual either.) tax would mean that would everyone pay his fair share. Now, rich people pay very little or no inmany come tax. The same is true of those receiving income from criminal activities. In either case a consumption tax would mean they would pay every time they purchased something. A consumption paul harvey South of the border, a big idea The late Ward Walker tried to imagine what it would be like if no way. Never. And our nation had first discovered natural gas NOW. poorer. YOU YOU could foresee enormous potential for this new energy source, for light and heat and power ... But... If you had to clear with the EPA... The very idea, the bureaucrats and the scardy cats would say piping into the homes of our nation an odorless, colorless, poisonous, explosive gas! Why, it could be ignited by a cigarette ... Or by an electric spark ... The humanists and the environmentalists would picket your house with posters saying such things as: He wants to burn us up ... He wants to blow us up ... Protect the innocent from this poison gas... And environmental impact studies would question the safety of removing from underground the jillions of cubic feet, predicting cities like Houston would sink into the bowels of the earth. And what would happen should a major gas line blow up! And would not the air we breathe be polluted forever by all those jets of burning gas? The EPA would surely say ... fuel. would be Baylor Universitys Institute Environmental Studies has a long-ru- n interest in alcohol as a of Graduate students there built an ethanol production unit years ago, later an industrial size unit. This larger unit took the waste from the Mars Candy Company and distilled it into alcohol fuel. That fuel powered a crosscountry flight by a Baylor professor. So Honduras remains mostly thatched huts with an average wage for the few who can find work of 50 cents an hour. |