Is Illinois ready for a coal severance tax debate
The Illinois United Mine Workers face a pivotal Springfield meeting as 200 delegates weigh backing or studying a coal severance tax. The piece contrasts Illinois’ lack of a tax with Montana and Wyoming and urges action to curb future revenue losses when coal declines. It cites past proposals, a veto in 1979, and calls for a comprehensive study and state promotion of Illinois coal.
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Illinois
United Mine Workers
Springfield
Pennsylvania
Illinois Coal
Montana
Wyoming
Thompson
UMW
State Department Mines and Minerals
Gene Johns
Marion
Johns
Don’t try it says IRS on divorce tax loopholes
Washington column discusses Angela and David Boyter of Ellicott City who divorce abroad and remarry to avoid taxes, avoiding about $18,000. The IRS treats these as sham marriages. The piece notes Congress and the White House face a broader inequity in the marriage tax and calls for reform amid Reagan era tax debates.
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Jack W. Germond
Jules Witcover
Washington
Angela
David Boyter
Ellicott City
Boyters
Caribbean
Maryland
Internal Revenue Service
Pierce, Fenner and Smith
Regan
Senate
IRS
Congress
White House
Millicent Fenwick
New Jersey
Treasury
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Angelia
Commission
United States
Dennis DeConcini
D-Ariz
Letters Need Bachelor Presidents
A Southern Illinoisan reader argues for a bachelor president free of immediate kinfolk. The note contends that a president without a wife children or siblings would avoid family headlines, camera attention, and public relations hurdles, suggesting fewer private life complications for the office.
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Southern Illinoisan
United States
California quake risk spurs drills and alarms
Federal and state officials in California intensify disaster planning after a surge in seismic activity. A FEMA review warns a major quake is inevitable and that residents will be on their own in the first days. Los Angeles and San Francisco begin full scale exercises as geologists debate whether the uptick signals an impending catastrophe.
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Wayne King
New York Times
San Francisco
California
U.S. Geological Survey
Eureka
Mount St. Helens
Washington State
San Francisco Bay Area
Los Angeles
San Bernardino
Ralph Wright Jr
Red Cross
Immigration reform would nail employers
A bipartisan commission warns the U S immigration system faces disaster due to inefficiency planning and corruption. The report calls for amnesty for 3 to 6 million illegal aliens and a harsher enforcement plan targeting employers with large fines. INS reorganization is urged as is cutting illegal arrivals below 2 million annually.
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Mary Thornton _ Washinton
Congress
Reagan Administration
U.S
Alan K. Simpson
R-Wyo
The
Commission
INS
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Beff
Etta
W.e.a
San Andreas
Donald D. Trunkey
San Franciso
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Coun
Immigration and Naturalization Service
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