Tax reform and simplification fail to tame baffling tax law
Russell Baker argues that the US tax code is dreadfully complex and ever changing under reforms labeled simplification. He says Congress and the IRS keep widening loopholes to aid campaign contributors, while partisanship blocks true simplification and keeps life profitable for lawyers and elites.
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Internal Revenue Service
Reagan
Congress
General Consolidated
Consolidated
Washington
Lane Kirkland
Bridge fix long overdue on Brick Yard Road
Residents of Brick Yard Road in Princeton urge replacement of a dangerous five-decade-old wooden bridge over a Norfolk Southern track. With a four ton limit and limited sight lines, the bridge has prompted petitions to the West Virginia Department of Highways while ownership remains disputed between the railroad and state.
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Brick Yard Road
Princeton
Norfolk Southern Railway
Highway Department
Reagan complains of foreign policy gridlock by Congress
President Reagan vented near anger over congressional curbs on foreign policy as he pressed allies on aid to Nicaraguan rebels. Spokesman Speakes noted a decade of increased legislative limits while lawmakers defend checks and balance amid longstanding executive power tensions.
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Dale Nelson
Associated Press
Washington
Reagan
Nicaragua
Congress
Larry Speakes
Speakes
Senate
Howard H. Baker Jr
Tennessee
United States
Southeast Asia
House
U.S
Cambodia
Indochina
Richard M. Nixon
Vietnam
Hanoi
Nixon
Lebanon
Gerald R. Ford
Mayaguez
Cambodian
Ford
Jimmy Carter
Africa
Clark
Angola
Robert J. Dole
R-Kan
Dole
George Shultz
American Bar Association
Dante B. Fascell
Dfla
Income tax fairness and Reagan plan critique by Buckley
William F Buckley argues against the claim that Reagan's tax reforms are fair. He analyzes who pays what under the plan, noting high earners bear a large share while lower earners pay little, and laments the ideological framing of fairness. He questions brackets, corporate treatment, and deductions, urging clearer reasoning.
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Reagan
Santa Claus
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New York
Britain
N.Y
Editorial
Railroad
Gardner
Fascell
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Shultz
William F. Buckley
Universal Press Syndicate
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