European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1977 the stars and stripes  v Washington a most politicians associate themselves with pleasant but Jimmy Carter is identifying he Roselt More and More with a singular unpleasant Carters Effort is to ease the tax Burden or to show thai Hli own dealings with the in service suppl the Effort is particularly Likely to be politically harmful fits confusing after is it easy to understand some one who pays the internal Revenue service More than he owes let alone men notion that Carter might try to the by vestment lax Carteri gesture of to make despite a Gross income of Carters Federal income tax forms showed he owed no tax because lie had Taxen advantage of an investment tax credit thai reduced his tax liability from to jct and qualified Carter for a refund of the had the president said he was donating 000 to the but what exactly is the Point is the 030 conscience Money 1 dont think said while House press Secretary Jody Powell but then he adds people who reap substantial Bene fits from this country ought to pay some thing even when the Law does not require it in a particular Carter himself said by Way of explaining his donation that he had a Strong feeling that a person should pay some tax does that mean Carter wants to revise the lax Laws so that everyone with income must pay a tax just people with substantial Powell then is it Safe to say carter1 discovery about what people like himself can do to escape taxes will give impetus to his lax Reform Effort it probably Powell except to draw attention to taxes Powell said the presi Dent will not make tax Reform decisions based on his own the Carter donated to the irs in lieu of taxes u Only indicative of the presidents general flies Kun Kopcaz edit id 1paholc Johh u 1 to in win of in non Artir Tytun to n itt hit in ohm Yukii of w in to Apo in i tin in ind pm huh 11 u Amati Ufi Ompir Ici Tufui twi torm rim Alnut Ettta Ami Tito 04iuohw Vert i hand hews a umlaut of wimp Cima Attoh of pkg i Cit to i cd Miljko to tit that might turn off business plans to Lay plants and Powell tax revision is still Loo from anyone1 to Ihlen about what1u specific shape will so it ends in the same vagueness and confusion that has characterized Many of attempts to Deal with during the Carter seemed to suggest eliminating the deduction Home owners Are allowed their mortgage in1 a Carter Henry Jackson of accused my of advocating  a Gross Carter shot he Saia he would do nothing to shift the tax Burden to homeowners particularly those with lower incomes Bui then Carter also said i will consider proposing Elimina Tion of the mortgage interest deduction As part of a broader plan to lower in a Campaign Candi Date Carter urged a tax overhaul to shift a substantial increase toward those who have the higher incomes and reduce levies on lower and Middle income tax asked what was higher Carter said 1 dont i Roulot take the mean or median level of income and anything above thai would be higher and anything below that would a reporter then pointed out that the median family income today is some where around somebody earning year is not what people commonly Carter interjected i i cant answer that question because i Haven gone into republicans claimed Carter had advocated increasing the taxes of half the american said was a typical Republican Stuart Carters chief adviser on later said that increases would apply to the wealthy and certainly not to people earning or a but he said it would take further study to determine the level of income at which axes would go that level Lull Saint been established Carter said be expects to have his tax Reform package Complete before the year is out but he said thai so far All he has is a series of recently Carter has gotten entangled in other tax National and each touched by contradiction or conf there was the part of his eco nomic stimulus Carter pledged a mighty fight to past not Long be declared the Economy no longer needed the rebated and he scrapped then Here was his own tax audit Early on the Day in was Learned that the irs was auditing Carters 1975 tax aides me audit had in effect been invited by Carters accountant later in the Day they said Bey  agree among themselves whether in was a Carter associate or w irs representative who whatever few Kritlow to these confusions when the return was and Carter Tlam donation to Uncle Smi was am thing became abundantly regardless of what Point the makes about Carters notions of tax he wants to make the Point pm six thousand dollars is a lot of Money to someone once described by his press Secretary As tight As a Dent of the student Council  american High t would like to com Mart graduation and the reaction to rat one of the primary purposes of the Constitution is to protect the political oppo gluon from the governing it even right yet since starry offered our graduation class some harsh for the Liberal press and Liberal a in who happen w and formed of of some real world problems lend Arent willing to he has been sub jus Las the n0 he Mill plus1 Only told us some of the things every tary Man from sergeant up is told some of his personal opinions he skein main Gennity entitled to express his recently you quoted portions of a speech riven by Donn starry at the Frankfurt High school if it is possible and 1 believe Many of your myself would enjoy Reading the entire it at that the general May have been indiscreet in giving such a controversial speech to such a  audience 10 soon before his impending pro motion had he wanted a More secure he could have expressed his views to his staff at his Farewell or even Given his address to the no Academy student fact that he elected to use the medium he obviously indicates it was a deliberate Choice and when viewed in conjunction with the Fate of one can Only assume it was done to Chal Lenge the Carter those people who chosen by president Andrew Young in May say whatever they but be unto not who Are quoted with out firs Clearing their with the what Are experiencing Here is a test of whether or not first amendment to the Constitution applies to the military As Well As Carters political Success depends upon Good rapport with the press and to allow one of his attack the press without reprimand would certainly not to politically Carter must also consider the fact that Good generals Are not an expendable commodity and the ones who express their views honestly May be the ones Worth Duvelow Frankfurt double standards what about Young t am absolutely appalled by the double standards that our political society is establishing for our military on one hand they Issue statements on administration policy pertaining to human then on the other hand they recall and reprimand our military leaders for voicing personal opinions gained from years of professional observations and sex at one time i was impressed by the views and actions of president Carter on the subject of human presently 1 am bewildered by the relieving of both Unglaub and we As americans cannot afford to create a double Standard that protects the constitutional rights our civilian but presses those rights that Are equally to valuable to the military men and women who May be called upon to defend when the commanding general of the 2nd inf div and starry freely spoke Ihler they had their Chain of com Mand breathing Iown their v Why is it that the United nations ambassador Andrew Young goes Way out of line at limes and has not been cautioned about la Germany o 41 of n pats sought Bernse of the Large volume of mall the column re craves letters that arc Brief and to the Point have a much better Chance of being