European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes William Buckley Issue of busing is now in hands of Reagan further on the matter of a program for the Reagan administration based on a pragmatic exercise in principles primarily identified with consider forced a Brief the supreme court of the United states in the Brown Deci Sion of that statutory segregation of schools was the decision was for a decade or More interpreted As outlawing segregation by color or but when the various civil rights Bills were the courts interpreted them in decreeing under was by this Point acknowledged As unconstitutional where a decreed by state Law or b con trived by in  in it was clearly illegal to round up Black students in order to Send them to an other but the courts took that and ran with what they have been saying for 10 years or is that if a school is primarily White or primarily the school District has the responsibility of finding students of complementary and shipping them so As to assure that schools Are the effects of that decision have outraged parents who have no objection to biracial Edu but strenuous objections to sending their children in Many cases Over extended moreover to schools conducted without any reference to the supervisory standards parents exercise Over neighbor Hood although the polls show that forced busing is unpopular with Whites the figures Are 72 percent 9 percent and with Blacks the figures arc 56 percent 35 Many Black leaders interpret the Call to end forced busing As motivated Pri Marily by a surreptitious anxiety to re Segre Gate and the Issue drifted Over toward ideological such is the moral authority of the courts that Many congressmen Are afraid to notwithstanding the clarity of their Man but How might a Reagan administration confront the matter pragmatically 1 Reagan should recommend to Congress that it pass a Bill removing from the Federal effective jurisdiction Over the racial composition of All absent Only if evidence of segregationist activity by any civil 2 Reagan should recommend to Congress a constitutional amendment out Lawing the use of any racial discrimination in the Public in doing Congress and the states in find them selves re validating the edict of the supreme James Kilpatrick court in the Brown the amendment would harmonize with crystallizing philosophical opinion that to enc our indeed to racial standards in the composition of the schools is to under write a form of racism which however benevolent the writes into Law inequality by reason of f3ut the purpose of the double threat is precisely to emphasize the empirical a it takes a while for constitutional amendments to make their Way through the Legislatures of the unless they have to do with the rec institutionalization of in which event delays Are but the advantage Here is the Reagan George Mair administration is 1 instant Relief from juridical interference with parental combined with 2 the Over a considerable for the states to medi Tate whether they wish to affirm racial Equality by constitutional during the first year or two or three that the proposed constitutional amendment is making the the Public experience is that segregationists have discovered Loop holes the effect of which is to deny biracial education where residential patterns make this logical the constitutional amendment can fail for insufficient support in the states and Congress can return to the courts the authority it took from the other possibility is that a predominantly White schools will improve b pre dominantly Black schools will improve and c More biracial education will result from the cessation of that flight from the Public schools so notorious in the nations the release of racial tension brought on by the congressional initiative could test the for which there is considerable scholarly that busing has in fact enhanced racial friction rather than racial but once president Reagan would be in a position to say lets try lets see what c Universal press time for fhe social Security fax Ripoff fellow it is once again time to stand by for the big annual social Security tax on it jumped from percent to it is really twice that because your employer has to match it to it is All just salary expense and it Doest make any difference to him to whom it is in you have been paying percent of your salary in so Cial Security taxes that will jump to the equivalent of what makes the social Security tax so onerous is that it is the Load carried mainly by the poor and the Middle some poor columns and comments people have so Little that they dont pay any income but they will still be stuck with the full percent social Security As for the Middle social Security taxes Are levied on the first of which according to the census Means about 65 percent of the total wages earned in this that Means that something on the order of 35 percent the richest 35 percent of the wages earned escape social Security news and world report recently illustrated the effect of this system of let Ting the Rich not pay their the mag Azine reported if you earn up to 700 in you will pay social Security taxes for the entire if you earn you will pay Only for the first 39 if you earn you will Stop after 26 the 16th these inequities go on and on year after year because and average dont put the heat to your Friendly neighbourhood of int in the social Security system and Nei ther Are some 6 million other government if you Are tired of getting the dirty end of the stick on your social Security put the squeeze on your Man in make him know you want the tax applied to All government employees and the the thought that he might have to pay social Security taxes like the rest of us May focus his Beady Little mind on the c los Angeles times if the people want to bet on let them new controversies often involve old thais the Case these Days in where some Lively arguments Are being heard about a proposal to authorize Parit Nutuck George Edi Tor of the editorial pages of the Wichita is foursquare against the if i were in id be about three Square in favor of let us break a my brother Neavoll finds the whole proposition he scoffs at the notion that parimutuel betting would produce significant Revenue for the state of Kansas maybe million a less than percent of total taxes Are the least of his Neavoll is More deeply troubled by the social and moral issues of legalized Low income people who can afford it the least and because of their deprived status Are tempted the most Are hit the my brother cites a study showing that in new bettors in the lowest income class wagered the highest percentage of their of those new yorkers with incomes of less than less than 10 percent played the but their gambling took percent of their annual this cruel he leads thousands of new bettors into tempt and contributes toward the ranks of an estimated six million to nine million com Plu Sivc parimutuel betting suggests to the Gullible that its pos sible to get something for that one Doest really have to and that its possible to beat the system and live on easy Neavolls Strong advice to the lawmakers at Topeka is vote it Down that is a powerful but not a convincing maybe in but it seems to me that in a free society we ought to be very leery of fixing Public policies out of some Superior appreciation of the finer things of consider this benighted new Billy the one with an income under a who spends annually betting on the bang my brother Cut in Kansas thinks this just 1 dont think its Ted Dible at live and let says different strokes for different folks do Gustitus non est Dis and All that sort of our governments at every level already Are deeply involved in the entertainment Busi our Federal taxes subsidize symphony orchestras including choral theater companies and the our state and local taxes subsidize stadiums and my thought is that if Billy Brooklyn wants to squander his or invest or risk or simply spend it by putting four Bucks a week on the that billys if he would rather go to the or take the kids to the Fine with maybe his buys Worth of dreams or excitement or tall and now and then a Lovely memory of a 20tol shot that came Home in the Why dont we just leave Billy alone thirty two states now permit parimutuel fourteen states have and Arizona and the District of co Lumbia last month approved measures to Ward that two states have others have legalized dog tracks and Jai last year nearly billion was wagered in Public that May not make it but it does suggest that the pastime is and the took in nearly billion in taxes As their share of the maybe its immoral for government to authorize sin and then tax the but the practice is ancient in Public weve had taxes on whiskey and cigarettes for More than 200 sixty Odd years ago we tried to keep Billy Brooklyn from buying the misguided Effort produced the Long dark night of prohibition a fiasco that the state of Kansas helped to create and later refused to Kansas  even let its people vote on the re peal amendment in for the record this is no personal Cru Sade from a broke Down horse old dad is so Square he  bet on the next tide or the phases of the my idea of a pleasant evening in Las vegas is to stay in the hotel room watching a tale of two cities on the but Billy doubtless has a different Hes c Universal press