European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 03, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes tuesday Juno 3, 1980 William f. Buckley or. Advice to Ted take a walk at convention memo to the Lynn name Tei from o a faithful re your choir you asked in to comprt.1 into i Feu a urls what our choices ire. Well. I la a Blifil. Tin ii Hippli Ion did t Pic me a raise in january do Jou think Public servants should work for nothing some people judging from Jour performance might suspect thai your Slaff was guilty of i slow Down. To business. Things arc pelting pretty healed Between you and . You hive to hand it to him he has a real Knack for milking the Day s new Sand getting people to forget yesterday s blunders. By the Lime he was through with the mount St. Helens business you d think he was going to vacuum clean the whole slate All by himself provided he wins the primaries. Anyway he s licked you. Your decision to stick it out i opposed at the Post Pennsylvania conference at Mclean. I lost and you know what a Good loser i am hint. In the next couple of weeks you can count on this that every foot of film and tape taken of you talking about Carter is going to be put into Reagan s vaults for use during inc Campaign. The collection already available to the republicans is extensive. Rockefeller never spoke a harshly about Goldwater As you have about Carter. Now this Means that if you decide at the convention in new York to be a regular Guy. You d have to do in by emphasizing the horrors of the alternative Ronald Rea Gan. There s no Way without causing great hilarity at the convention and in the press to get up As one of the Seconder nominating Carter stressing the president s qualifications. You had to spend five months stress ing his disqualifications. If you go that Way. The Only Way to handle it is to play a quiet role in the convention and then blast the hell out of Reagan and Deal with Carter with something like we have had our differences but we arc United in our opposition to Ronald Reagan world wars plagues and poverty that sort of thing. Now Here is an alternative. Take a walk like Gene Mccarthy s in 1968. Say something about How much you Admire the courage of John Anderson. Reiterate your Faith in the democratic party but your reluctance to go with it when in is headed in a self discrediting direction. Invite Andersonpo join a renovated democratic party. Stay away from any direct participation in the Campaign beyond this. Give a couple of statesman like speeches on duties that transcend party i la while them take off and go to Europe. Visit the Lead ers of the world. Spend time with renowned academicians. We can arrange plenty of pm Crape Yiu linking to sir Isaiah Berlin i la u-11 Jini what Lei Sas. La cinch Hull hell do ill the Lalo Nithe idea is .1 kind of Sci in Tacuri cd i anal hmm. Roll come when a pop a Call my son of think our version of do caulk s cil the los Lieut Lipics. When the reporters ask of about the election you just smile stoically i la Leach you How change the subject and say some thing Aboul what happened in Rome in the fourth Century thut sort of thing. Now we have got to assume that Reagan would be elected sure. But we also assume Don t we .1 Lylial hell make a mess of things. It in l Likely that we re going to have a world War. The russians Aren t that crazy Are they and a country used to socially oriented Domestic policies is going to go into High revolt against Reagan by the time his first term comes loan end. And they la be screaming for Relief. Who will they turn to Ihnn if . Won this year they ii nominate Fritz sure As hell in 1984. But if . Loses in the Prima Ries it will be Fritz is. You. And you will be there As the Guy who warned against the dilution of democratic ideals under curler. And Carter in an Effort to beat Reagan that summer is going to sound like Mark Hannah on issues like inflation Csc. Think in Over. Check with Ken. And Arlhur. And Ted. If you like. I la Lake a couple of other sound Ings from Well you know who. It s risky bul you be swum against the tide before. Universal Preiti Syndicate i Sicko cartoonists  looked Tcarter lately Tom Wicker California voters Cooling on tax cuts a family of four with an income of Only $15,000 a year is up against it economically Here in California As much As in any state. And a state income tax bite of s225.80 does t help. So on the face of it the registered voters in that family should go to the polls tues Day and Vole for proposition 9, which would Cut California income taxes by More than half in inc Case of inc family cited by 69u percent to Only $68.90, a fat saving of$156.90. But the strange fact is that 57 percent of a Sample of registered voters said they opposed proposition 9, in a California poll taken May 9-15. And opposition to inc initiative the latest brainchild of that tax Cutter s tax Cutler Howard Jarvis appears to have been growing steadily since february when poll lakers found Only 34 h6 s 6rwn arts 5inc6 saw him last. Percent of californians were opposed and 54 percent were in favor. If this trend results in the defeat of proposition 9 tuesday californians will have cooled Down the much heralded lax re Volt they began in 1978 with the landslide passage of proposition 13. Jarvis scheme to Roll Back slate properly taxes. The demise of proposition 9 also could signal trouble ahead for the Ronald Reagan presidential Campaign which Calls for drastic reductions in income taxes and the size of government. One reason for opposition to proposition 9 is that the big saving Tor that family of four in an example provided by the san Francisco examiner is somewhat deceptive. The lower state tax also would mean a smaller Federal income tax deduction hence an additional $32.95 owed to Washington. The net income tax savings would be Only si23.9s, instead of $156.90. Broken Down 10 a few dollars per week in withholding. Still that s Worth having. But the Cali fornia poll verifying the observations of no on nine Campaign officials found that californians arc looking beyond the immediate pock Lbook Impact. Of those opposed to the initiative 42 percent said their primary reason was the fear that needed slate services particularly in education would be Cut if the state Osl so much in come tax Revenue a a loss some estimate As High As is billion in the first year. No on nine workers have been remind ing voters that in addition to the property lax reduction another initiative approved in 1979 limited increases in stale and local spending and thai the state income lax has now been indexed to the inflation Rale. As a result of those Steps they say. Proposition 9 just does t seem to have the outraged constituency that gave proposition 13 its land slide. Even Milton Friedman is being quoted As believing thai amending the stale Constitution which proposition 9 would do is not the proper Way to make tax policy. Opponents Are suggesting thai new Revenue losses surely would Lead to higher sales and consumer taxes and More user fees All of which Hurt Low and Middle income families. And they claim that those reduced fed eral tax deductions would increase californians Federal income taxes by an estimated is .1 billion a year. Why ship All that Money to Washington instead of Sacramento As for the Reagan Campaign growing opposition to proposition 9 suggests that in the nation s most populous state taxpayers Are now More concerned about maintaining adequately financed government service than they arc about reducing the size of government As their former governor advocates. Even among those who supported proposition 9 in the California poll Only 9 percent believed that the state gels Loo much  perhaps More interesting Only 2 percent of proposition 9 supporters believed a big income tax Cut would help the California Economy while 5 percent of those opposed were afraid that people will be Laid off if in passes. This raises questions about the political scalability of Reagan s Laffer curve proposal for a massive income tax Cut on grounds it would stimulate invest ment and production. That s also a major argument being made for proposition 9 by those who claim that proposition 13 boosted California s econ omy and indeed inc rate of growth of Gross state product declined Only from 6.5 percent in 1977 to 4.8 percent in 1979, against a decline in Gross National product growth Rale from 5.3 to 2.3 percent. Bui the voters Don t seem to be buying Reagan style economics perhaps because in inc same period the indicators that mean most 10 them the consumer Price Index and the unemployment Rale Rose in Cali fornia slightly More than inc National Fig ures