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Show THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• SOOTHEltN U T A H ~ • MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1991 'OUT THERE' Utahns should do well under new budget SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah taxpayers should fare generally will get to keep some $350 million now paid Tax Commission officials estimate the federal well under the balanced budget-tax cut deal agreed to to the federal government. changes will mean between $10 million and $1 5 last week by the White House and Republican For example, if you have five children younger than million more to state government. congressional Leaders. 17, you get to keep $2,500 in federal tax - assuming The federal deal should help Utah homeowners, big Genera Uy, residents of the Beehive you are paying that much and small. If you sell your primary residence, you can State will benefit because of a federa l tax already. keep up to $500,000 in profit tax free. combination of large fam ilies and H owever, because Utah However, you can receive the tax-free residential Balanced budget re latively low wages, analysts residents can deduct only half of profits only once every two yea rs. The tax-free benefit Some of the elements contained in the believe. their federal income taxes on would be retroactive to house sales after May 7, 1997. tentative agreement between the Clinton T he bu<lgct agreement, which their state returns, a lower The federal deal puts $3 1 billion over five years in to administration and congressional leaders: hcral<ls a signi ficant tax cut for federal tax means a higher state Clinton's H ope Scholarship Fund . That program gives Americans fo r the first time since tax. A married couple in the top families a $1,500 "scholarship" in tax breaks for the • $91 billion, net of tax increases. 1981, includes a $500-per-child Utah tax bracket will get to first two years that a ch ild goes to college. The second • A $400-per-child credit beginninQ next federa l tax credit. keep $500 in federal tax but will two years of college is indexed, starting at zero in year, rising to $500 in 1999, for children 16 Jn 1995, the last year such figures pay $17.50 more in state tax. 1998 but rising to $2,000 over time. and under. arc available, Utah taxpayers claimed Sixty-four percent of state • For the first two years of college, the According to the state Board of Regents, 16,500 maximum credit would be $1,500. For the 736,800 depcnc.lcnls on their stale taxpayers arc in t he top bracket, Utah high school graduates will go off to college in second two years of college, the maximum income-tax returns. The federal that for a married couple filing 1999. The parents of each college-bound kid will credit would start at $1,000 and phase up hue.Igel deal gives a $400-per-chil<l tax jointly and making more than over time to $2,000. receive a$ L,500 tax credit over two years, a total of crc<lit to most Americans for 1998 $7,500 a yea r. $24.7 million to Utah fami lies. taxes, $500 thereafter.) • For Medicare most of the $1 t 5 billion in But the cre<lit applies only to savings would come from limiting children younger than 17 years. Some payments to hospitals, doctors and other Utah residents declare <lcpen<lents on providers. taxes for older children, up to age 22 • For Medicaid about $13 billion In savings, mostly from lower payments to hospitals. if they arc serving religious m issions. ft's impossible to dctcrm.inc how man y of the 736,800 arc ages 17 to • The current 24-cent-per-pack levy on 22, Uta h Tax Commission cigarettes would iticrease by 10 cents in Fiscal year 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 1998-2002 economi sts say. 2000 and an addi i nal nickel in 2002. In addition, the federal tax deal Total spending 1,693 1,758 1,809 1,866 1,889 9,015 phases out those credits fo r families making more than $110,000 a yea r Total Revenues 1,600 1,666 1,724 1,801 ,890 1 8,681 (about 5 percent of Utah taxpayers). The tax credit also reaches LowDeficit I Surplus -93.0 -91 .7 -85.1 -65.0 0.9 income fami lies making as little as *Numbers were calculated by House Republic Analysts. $18,000 a year who may pay no federa l tax now. AP Still, it is clear Utah families AP/C. Tovar William S. Burroughs, 1914-1997, inspired Beat writers KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - William S. Burroughs' unapologetic writing about hard drinking, heroin addiction and homosexuality inspired Beat Generation writers to question a postwar American society epitomized by " Leave It To Beaver." The writer died Saturday at age 83, a day after suffering a heart attack. His Legacy includes the novel. "Naked Lunch," a landmark literary work that traded standard narrative prose for a rambling, stream-of-consciousness approach many Beat writers borrowed. Praised by some as a visionary genius and reviled bi others as a depraved drug addict, Burroughs' We story reads Like a painful modem tragedy. The Harvard-educated writer (class of 36) became a junkie after moving to New York C ity and never settled down for decades, living in New Orleans, Mexico City, Paris, London, Africa and South America during a I 5-year period when he did little writi ng. In 195 I, in a real-life replaying of the William Tell legend, he killed his common-law wife while tryi ng to shoot a liquor glass set on her head. His namesake son, bom in 1947, was an alcoholic and drug addict who died of cirrhosis of the liver in 198 1. The unconventional novel " Naked Lunch," first published in 1959, depi cted, in graphic tenns, an underground world fighting an increasingly self-destructive technological society. It became the subject of a precedent-setting obscenity trial because of its violence and explicit sexual passages. Publ ishers eventually won an appeal in Boston, and the book was published in the United States in 1962. " Naked Lunch" prompted influential author Norman Mailer to say Burroughs was possibly the most talented writer in Ameri ca. Future Beat legends Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, who met the older writer in the 1940s, became literary followers. Kerouac adopted a similar stream-of-con sciou sness prose st yle and Ginsberg mi rrored much of Burroughs' scathing social criticism in his poetry. "He became an elder statesman for a lot of people," said Willam S. Burroughs 1 Morris Dickstein, an English professor at City University of New York. Burroughs continued his unconventiona l style, using a technique called cut-ups, in subsequent books including "The Soft Machine" (1961), "The Ticket that Exploded" (1962), and "Nova Express" (1964). Cut-ups involved random cutting and pasting and folding into his own writing quotations from other authors, newspapers and other m edia. Burroughs died after leading a reclusive life in the University of Kansas town of Lawrence for about 15 years. He had a close circle of friends there, including Richard Gwin, a photographer for the Lawrence Journal-World. " William was always very calm ," Gwin said Sunday. "He always had a gentle atmosphere about him. He was in a different world. But he was very knowledgeable. He had an appetite for learning. He ha<l a very expanded knowledge of the world. " The men often went target shooting together, where Burroughs sometimes blasted pictures he had painted, Gwin sai d. Asked if Burroughs still u sed drugs, Gwin sa id: 111 don 't think William ever gave up anything he enjoyed." Burroughs was born in 19 14 in St. Louis, the namesake grandson of the inventor of the adding machine. He married once, a marriage of convenience to allow a German-Jewish refugee to enter the United States. T hey were divorced in 1946. Burroughs was living in London in the early 1970s when Ginsberg, who died in April at 70, contacted him and persuaded hjm to return to America. His writi ng career was revived by James Grauerholz, who became his secretary and scheduled readings for him. Burroughs had a continuing influence on attists and mus.icians through the 1960s and '?Os, including rockers Lou Recd, David Bowie and Patti Smith. Burroughs moved to Kansas in 198 1 at his secretary's urging after the writer had begun using drugs again. He went on to write more conventional works, including "Place of the Dead Roads" in 1984 and "The Western Lands" in 1987. _.... _____ ; .c; |