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Show The Garn Opinion - Supports federal tax limitations "normal" inflation. But the family would actually experience ex-perience a loss because its tax burden would virtually double because of "tax-flation," "tax-flation," Garn stated. The answer is to "index" or adjust the tax tables to take into account the effect of inflation, Garn said, the basis of adjustment would be the rise in the Consumer Price Index. "This system is being used in such countries as Brazil and Canada and by numerous federal agencies," agen-cies," Garn said. "Indexing provides equitable and fair treatment for all Americans, and would curb federal spending by denying politicians their yearly windfall profit from tax-flation," tax-flation," he said. Citing the Proposition 13 "message," U.S. Senator Jake Garn Monday announced an-nounced his support for two measures which would limit the growth of federal taxes and institute a system of tax indexation. The Utah Republican has previously co-sponsored a proposed constitutional amendment requiring the federal government to balance its budget and a bill which proposes an across-the-board 33 percent tax cut. Garn noted that any one or a combination of the measures "would be positive steps toward real tax reform-the kind that puts money into the pockets of the taxpayers. "When the people of California overwhelmingly supported the property tax cut initiative, they sent a message to Washington which even the most con firmed big spenders can't ignore. The climate is right for some bold initiatives," he said. The first of the two new measures is a constitutional amendment which would require the federal government govern-ment to limit its annual spending to no more than one-third of the average national income for the three previous years. Introduced in the Senate by Sen. James McClure, the amendment would allow the governmenbt to increase spending only in case of national emergency or war with the approval of three-fourts three-fourts of the membership of both houses of Congress. "Limiting the power of Big Government to spend is absolutely essential," Garn said. "High taxes are choling the economy by penalizing productivity. thrift and investment." The second bill, introduced in-troduced by Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas, is designed to eliminate the "hidden taxes" which government collects through inflation, the Utah senator said. "Almost every time a consumer receives a 'cost-of-living' raise, he is pushed into a higher tax bracket-sven bracket-sven though Sis actual purchasingpower has not increased at all," Garn said. "It is a very insidious form of taxationand helps to explain why some politicians really don't want to put a lid on inflation." As an example, Garn noted that a family earning $10,000 in 1978 would have to have an income of $20,000 in 1988 just to keep with |