European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tom Wicker begin f Sadat obviously really want peace sunday August 13, 1978 "6oopn6ss knows Olive Branch to 4 the stars and stripes Page 15 the the Quick and even eager accept i Luces of the Camp David Summit by prime minister begin and president Sadat offer the Best reason to believe that Possi hues Are still alive for movement towards Tom in the Middle East. Both leaders de he their Sharp criticisms of one another cent months obviously want peace 1 does t mean they can arrange it at no David but it is the essential precondition for any serious negotiation. Reports from Jerusalem describe begin having accepted president Carter s i Hwd written invitation privately handed r temm by Secretary Vance immediately on Reading it. He then cooperated to the Lent of keeping his acceptance secret within his own government that  any possibility of a leak that might made Sadat reluctant to accept a la invitation for fear of appearing to e been  finally begin was ured As jubilant at a news Confer i following the White House announce t of the Summit meeting that also accepted the Carter invite Ion a soon As Vance had read it aloud to Bia like begin the egyptian president fid not wait to consult anyone in his gov a eminent in accepting moreover he aban i his recent position that Egypt would be in no More direct talks with Israel us Israel offered concessions in and these Are the actions of men however to their own hard positions who do t want the doors opened by the Sadat Ini Tiye and by begin s first most Forth response to be closed perhaps for they Are the actions of men grateful r an Opportunity to escape the dead end i which they had been driving them ,-�.r is4dat, for example was under rising from the other Arab states to o change drastically a peace Ini i to i appeared to have run out of a steam. He had lost some of his Peaceman Piir s Aura by his refusal to reopen direct talks with Israel for which the Carter and Prin stration had rebuked him. And he had Swiett calling for the . To become a full a in Middle East peace efforts a Jolon Vance accepted at a Cairo conference. Begin is Well aware of and apparently fools world opinion that he has been intransigent and More interested in territorial gains than in peace. Sadat s demands for concessions before we resumption of direct talks could not have been met had not the american inv ution intervened. And that invitation was ,. Couched in such a Way that the israelis Al ways sensitive to any hint of an imposed settlement could continue to regard car Ter As a mediator even if Sadat be Cleves him now a full  if Carter s personal perceptions of the israeli and egyptian leaders Are  is another reason to Hope for at least some movement toward peace at Camp David. Carter regards Sadat As highly flexible in private no matter what he says in Public so flexible in fact that even a limited israeli Concession on the difficult West Bank question might be sufficient for him. The president sees begin on the other hand As being no More flexible in private than he is in Public the line he takes at news conferences is. The line he takes in1 Man to Man talks with Carter. The presi Dent nevertheless believes begin deeply and sincerely wants peace so much so that he once broke into tears As he discussed this lifelong dream at Carter s dinner table. In the. President s View moreover be Gin personally wants nothing so much As to Crown his life with the achievement of a secure peace for Israel. This won t Lead him to abandon his hard line on the West Bank question far from it. It does offer however possible clues As to How Carter should proceed at Camp David and in preparing ail sides for the Summit. It would be a mistake for example to interpret full partner to mean taking Sadat s position although Carter is much nearer to it than to begin s and bringing american pressure on Israel to accept it. To produce and push an american plan requiring substantial israeli concessions would be a mistake. To new York Timet Jesse l Jackson tax Reform should Start at Bottom taxpayers revolts have been a american As Apple pie Ever since the bos ton Tea party with the recent passage of proposition 13 clearly in mind others Arenow jumping on the tax revolt bandwagon. Last week the House ways and Means committee voted out a Bill that would Cut taxes by $16.3 billion. The message trom the taxpayers seems Clear they want tax Reform and tax re Lief. However the goals of tax Reform and How to achieve genuine tax Relief seem less clearly communicated by the taxpayer. News item in Aminto become a race Gar drive the discussion surrounding tax Reform at the local state and National Levels tends to focus on increased production. In creased incentives to business and the wealthy it is argued will increase production which will increase jobs which will in crease consumer spending and the Cycle repeats itself. The Central issues of tax Reform however should be both increased production and increased economic Equality through the gradual redistribution of wealth and in come. Genuine tax Reform would achieve both. Tax Reform designed to achieve production and greater Equality would As a of product enable us to make greater in roads into unemployment help curb inflation and create a generally healthier and More permanently stable Economy. But How concretely do we go about achieving these goals what specific proposals Lead in this direction Californi Home owners were upset because of a tremendous increase in the Home owner s lax in some instances a rapid increase of up to 400 percent. How did the California Home owner fare from proposition 13? of the $7 billion of tax Relief Given to califor Roans. $4.5 billion went to corporations while Only $2.5 billion went to Home own ers. Three billion dollars of the $4.5 billion went to corporations had Quarter outside of California and $2 billion was immediately returned to the Federal government through the irs taxes formerly written off on Federal tax returns. It was an expression of classism into the extent that non Home owners gained nothing and los services. The circuit breaker approach to tax Relief for Home owners is a More creative and just approach. A Home owner s tax would Slop once it reached a certain percentage of income and would thus be More. I progressive taxing those most Able to j pay and relieving those least Able to pay / i . Home owners on fixed incomes. The most controversial part of the Bill voted out of the House committee last week was the $1.3 billion break Given to the wealthy on capital gains. The wealthy argue it is necessary As an incentive for in vestment. The present tax on capital gain Sis 49 percent but the House Bill reduces it to 25 percent. I argue that stimulating the Economy from the Bottom up rather than from the top Down is the direction that tax Reform should take  of the greatest reforms in our tax Structure would be to tax total actual in come. Money earned from Money should be taxed just As Money earned from work is presently taxed. This would Grant Bot tax Relief and tax Reform making our tax Structure More progressive and the distribution of wealth and income More just. We do need tax Relief and tax Reform. The distribution of wealth and income in this country has not changed since 1944 an the Burden of taxation is worse now than in the 1930s. Then corporations paid 68 per cent of the taxes and individuals through wages and salaries paid 32 percent. Now however corporations pay 34 percent and individuals pay 66 percent. Only if we use the tax Structure mechanism to promote the dual goals of in creased production and greater economic Equality will we find the Reform and the re Lief we Are All looking for and need. Id univ jul pm Lynd Lulo Tho Opl Loni Tiern mtg in Mio columns and a of tar Onmi Pao it Prtt Ulm of it Mtyr mra in no Wolo a con a Rod As representing the Hwi of Tho  a in Lam