Reagan Calls Flat Tax Tempting Amid Complexity
President Reagan urged lawmakers and Western state officials to study a flat rate income tax as a simpler system. He noted charities fear donation deductions would vanish, yet argued Americans are generous and may still give. Reagan touted new federalism to shift some programs to states and criticized bureaucracy while defending his cuts.
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Linda Deutsch
Associated Press
Los Angeles
Reagan
Uncle Sam
Nancy
Santa Barbara
Home of Friends
America
Treasury Department
Washington
Congressmen Seek Official Dormitory for Pages
Lawmakers call for a supervised dormitory for congressional pages amid reports of drug trafficking and illicit sex involving former pages. About 100 pages work in Congress at a time with no official dorm. some stay at alumni housing or Thompson-Markward Hall. House Majority Leader James Wright urges formal, tightly supervised housing.
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Peggy Andersen
Associated Press
Washington
Congressional
Congress
Capitol Hill
U.S. Capitol Page Alumni Association
Thompson- Markward
House
James Wright
Texas
Ex-page tells of encounter with senator and prostitute
LITTLE ROCK Arkansas AP a former congressional page Leroy Williams 18 says he arranged a meeting between a senator and a homosexual prostitute last November Williams identified last week as one of the pages interviewed in an inquiry into alleged illicit sex on Capitol Hill He said he would name the senator to the FBI and provide the names of a Capitol Hill staff member and a GPO employee for whom he arranged similar meetings He also told the FBI on June 25 that he performed oral copulation with two members of Congress but the lawmakers identities were not disclosed.
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Little Rock, Ark
Arkansas Gazette
Leroy Williams
Capitol Hill
the Gazette
Williams
FBI
Government Printing Office
Congress
Pillard's Seeks Kids for Back to School Fashion Show
Pillard's invites children ages three to ten to pick up applications in the Children's Department for fashion show auditions. Tryouts are scheduled for Wednesday July 14 from 2 to 4 p.m. Bring a small photograph for keep. Selected children will perform July 31 and applications stay on file for one year.
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Pillard’s
Dillard’s
Tax checks upheld in welfare eligibility ruling
A federal judge ruled the government may use certain income tax records to determine SSI welfare eligibility. The decision overturns an earlier order barring the SSA from cutting off benefits for recipients who would not allow tax record checks. The aim is to curb about 88,000 recipients suspected of $140 million annual improper benefits.
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Washington
U.S
Gerhard A. Gesell
Social Security Administration
Royce Lamberth
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