European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                March 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 1 in 5 cheats on income Survey finds Washington up one in five americans admit cheating on their income and most say they do it because the system is according to an internal Revenue service Survey reported in psychology today but the people surveyed said they believe 41 percent of All taxpayers and speculated the average taxpayer was almost As Likely to overstate deductions As under report people were questioned last summer for the irs poll conducted by Skelly and the results were published in the april Issue of psychology Twenty percent of the respondents admitted with twice As Many cheat ers saying they under reported their income As overstated their Many of those questioned were tolerant of even if they themselves didst the Magazine Many people who claimed that they did not cheat were willing to condone Eliza Beth a psychology professor at the University of Washington at wrote in the she cited Survey results that showed 76 percent of those questioned said it is accept Able not to report goods or services traded with a and 40 percent approved of not reporting Small amounts of outside in thirty eight percent agreed with the since a lot of Rich people pay one persons experience in an individual invested in Cash and signed a no recourse loan one that cant be called for for a total investment of the individual took shelter related tax deductions for three years before the irs disallowed the Here Are the consequences How investor filed returns taxable income less shelter depreciation taxable income reported tax less investment tax credit 1981 82 0 83 0 How irs corrected the return 1981 82 83 total taxable from less amount Back taxes interest penalty total due Chicago Tribune graphic source internal Revenue service v no taxes at if someone like me under pays a its not a big the most common reason Given for cheating was that the tax system is in cited by 25 percent of another 23 percent said they can get away with 19 percent said everyone else does 17 to beat the sys and 15 dont like or cant control How their Money is being who participated in january in an irs sponsored meeting of social scientists on How to reduce wrote that the group suggested creating a lottery making taxpayers who file accurate returns eligible for a prize and allowing taxpayers to designate How some of their tax dollars will be the she Are attempts to understand and Deal with the noneconomic reasons people dont pay their in the Long an ounce of understanding and applied psychology might prove to be Worth far More than a Pound of threat and the group also recommended a Campaign by celebrities talking about How proud they Are to be american citizens and to pay taxes to help their Loftus she said proponents of that suggestion believe if Ronald Joe Mon Michael Jackson or Jane Fonda were to appear on television talking about How proud they Are to be american citizens and to pay taxes to help their perhaps some citizens would follow Many citizens want Flat most favor big reforms in system Washington up the vast majority of americans nearly 80 percent favor major reforms in the income tax sys and a smaller majority 55 percent would prefer a Flat tax with fewer brackets and fewer according to a Survey published the Survey of reported in news and world also found nearly half the people worried a lot about the Federal deficit and sharply differ with the Reagan administration on where Feder Al spending should be almost 33 percent of those interviewed in the Survey called for a reduction in defense percent said military and Domestic spending should be equally just 11 percent said Domestic pro Grams should Bear the Brunt of the and percent said no budget cuts Are on tax percent agreed that major reforms Are 11 percent did and percent had no the Fla tax option was favored by percent of those despite differences with president Rea Gan Over the budget Issue and policy in Central a Large majority of americans like the Job he is with percent calling it another calling it fair and Only 16 percent saying the president is doing a poor reagans performance won its highest rating among new England those with family incomes Over asian americans and those giving the president a Low score included the those with family in comes under people with Only Grad school educations and there was Little difference Between men and women or Between those in Union and nonunion the Survey the strongest support for Domestic Bud get cuts came from Republic residents of the South Atlantic states and those with family incomes of More than a defense cuts were favored most by Liber residents of the Middle at lactic people with pos College education and those Between 45 and 54 years the president won a plurality of support for his policies in Central with percent saying he is on the right track and opposing those policies and a significant percent having no the Middle East was named As the main foreign potential trouble spot that could involve the United cited by per cent of the Central America Fol named by Southeast Asia was named by Western Europe by and percent were in the other world Trade hits record Geneva up world Trade Rose 9 percent in the largest increase in eight bringing the volume of International Trade to a record the general agreement on tariffs and Trade but serious tensions remain in the world econ the Trade Agency no no grave although he had his dog tags rapid a master who died years was a officer hating dog beloved by gis at Ellsworth now the search for his grave said to be at the end of a runway at Ellsworth has been called the legend of his death and ceremonial made a better Story than the sad truth there was no ceremony for and there was no Bismarck was the base Mascot during world War ii and the korean he disdained officers but loved enlisted said retired Jim the dog was the constant Friend of men training in b 17s in world War he lived with flew with slept with them and drank with according to Bismarck obituary in the Issue of the base the Bismarck had his own dog a Road on the base was named after frequently the 50pound Pooch would catch a bus to rapid where he was a familiar figure in bars As he sat at lapping a drink with the the obituary a recent rapid City journal Story about the sad Blacka Edwhite dog indicated he might have been ceremoniously buried at the South end of the main a rapid City businessman who had been stationed at the base for 20 years and remembered the dog said he vaguely remembered that the alcoholic dog was buried at the end of the runway with quite a Ceredo but Bill of a state department of water and natural resources also read the tale and came saying he had kept secret what happened to the journal reported in he he was an air Force Corporal assigned to the base veterinary i used to buy the dog Beer at the Bowling he but Aisenbrey said the dog developed an infection that turned gangrenous and  be the base veterinarian said euthanasia was called for because i was the lowest ranking i got stuck with the along with an unidentified Aisen Brey there were two ways to dispose of animals in by injecting sodium pent Othal or by the latter method was Aisenbrey we put the dog on a wet Towel and the electrical current killed the he Bismarck was never buried and there was no ceremony at the runways Aisenbrey he took the dogs body to the base incinerator for Aisenbrey said he didst Tell other gis what Hap i knew he i held my own con science because nobody would believe me anyhow or they might have lynched he was very popular with the