European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes april Coin mrs today crossword forget Nicaragua the irs is the problem by Russell Baker Ive had a Nasty suspicion lately that i May be a it came on me very Strong saturday searching the radio dial for that fellow who plays Russ Columbo and other 1931 Vintage i picked up president Reagan the president was talking about the red menace in Nic he often the red menace in Nicaragua seems to prey on his i sympathize with him about the irs preys on my mind with the same intensity that the red menace in Nicaragua seems to prey on the and i can assure you that having your mind preyed on is no laugh ing the galling part of it is the Public indifference to the crisis with which the preyed upon mind happens to be of it is my for that the irs is in advanced collapse and completely out of and that the situation is so critical that the irs will soon be incapable of collecting taxes from anybody but attempts to Alert the nation to this crisis provoke nothing but guff awing and even president 1 am sorry to has ignored my warnings that something must be done fast about the irs unless the government wants to end up trying to support itself solely on gleanings from my As i i was listening to the president go on about the red menace in Nicaragua and not thinking much about it except for wondering whether Russ Columbo would follow him immediately or whether id have to listen to a democratic party when it suddenly occurred to me that maybe the reason i was not worrying right along with the president was that i was a the truth was that i want so upset about communists in Nicaragua that i wanted to overthrow their As the president wants to Nicaragua just int one of your awesome its hard to imagine Nicaragua the British or winning a significant number of Gold medals at the or terrifying the russians by signing a no aggression treaty with the president Reagan obviously can imagine All because he keeps warning us we had better overthrow the nicaraguan government before it destroys our Way of life throughout Central i dont want to see our Way of life but whether it should be the destiny of the rest of Central Ameri Ca is something id leave for Central America to if Central America wants my id say go for the paid the credit cards and summering in a Cool but dont be so eager to accept political ads on Pentagon pliers at per pair and the this kind of talk probably exasperated president Reagan because his mind is heavily preyed on by the red menace in it is natural he might think that people who dont much care about it could be a Little i know How easy it is to believe that people not worried about the imminent collapse of the irs Are definitely its Only natural to think the worst of people who Are too dense to realize what the really civilization menacing problem of the age i dont go that far and Call president Reagan a on the other i Haven heard him calling on anybody to Wake up and do something about the irs before it becomes a total disaster that cant collect anybody taxes but a president who was really on top of the threats to our Way of life would bring everybody Back from the Geneva talks to Tell Congress that the russians will never cease adding to their Devilish Arsenal so Long As America has an irs too weak to collect anybody taxes but compared with this threat to the what does communist Rule in Nicaragua amount to there Are communists in charge Down but there Are communists in charge in Yugoslavia and China and you dont hear the president saying they better say Uncle if they dont want Casey of the Cia to give them a taste of freedoms c 1985 new York times Syndicate winning a significant number of Gold Meaaisi at the Casey or me 10 give inem a Mise 01 i Reedom s Are pow or terrifying the russians by signing a no aggression treaty o 1985 new York times Syndicate learning to live with taxpayers Block by Ellen Goodman Fonda came they would appear on television talk every i develop something known in the psycho about How proud they Are to be american citizens and to p by Ellen Goodman every i develop something known in the psycho logical literature As taxpayers taxpayers Block is typified by a deep one might even say a phobic to sitting Down with Check credit card a a calculator and income tax i do not have the worst Case of taxpayers Block Ever there for a Man with perfectly Good Teeth who volunteered for Root canal research on april in order to qualify for an there was a couple who claimed mat phobia As a medical excuse they had a note from the doctor when they were called to explain Why they haunt filed in 11 nevertheless i do manage to postpone the inevitable by performing All sorts of important like washing the leaves of my ficus pruning the magazines and alphabet izing the this the my vote added at least a Day to my while billion is not serious Money in Penta gon i kept using the calculator to figure out How Many bolts of a warhead i could personally in this under the Muse of full tilt i happened upon an article in psychology today describing a preseason meeting organized by the a number of social scientists gathered to help the irs figure out How to get people to pay since this was a meeting of social the big word was not enforcement but they we rent talking Handcuffs they were talking i wont list All the Dippy tips to the taxes that were spawned at this one psychologist suggested a lottery the names of the accurate taxpayers could go into a com Puter and they could pick a million Winner another said that the irs could offer honest taxpayers a rebate or a Low number in the next but my Collyge Whiz of a plan came from one social psychologist who thought that the irs should run a celebrity taxpayer series on this would Fea Ture people who were Happy to pay their taxes fully and who did they have in mind the names Ronald Joe Michael Jackson and Jane Fonda came they would appear on television talking about How proud they Are to be american citizens and to pay taxes to help their the vision of Ronald the tax admitting a secret love for taxpaying is fanciful at least he pays last his Bill was on an income of including in residuals from old television that about the same amount his pals in California pay their tax but its not Jelly As for the other stars of celluloid and Only a psychologist who gets excited about a rebate would think these Folk Are material for a solid citizen Michael Jack son reportedly took in million for thriller in if you think that the government saw half of that you May take your gloved hand and clap for Jane Fonda made from desk calendars alone last and million from exercise tapes the year any accountant who didst shelter her share of that Money would be publicly humiliated and have to commit Karikari on his pointed what of the Joe Montana gets playing football i imagine that if Joe admitted cheerfully and nationally How much he really paid in he would be mangled by the the psychologist at that meeting was a celebrity series would modify taxpayer when the average taxpayer found out whats Legal for the tax More of them would at the moment we do have cover girls and there the ones who dont Money Magazine in february Fea tured unabashed profiles of three proud celebrities a dentist in a real estate broker in Madeira and a sales rep in Clearwater who had combined incomes of and a legitimate tax Bill of am i complaining is it a sense of unfair play that has Given me my annual Case of taxpayers not at what i want to know before i sit Down at the calculator is this How much of my tax Dollar went to pay for that meeting c 1985 the Washington Post writers group that air sink w16ot to Utu Apa or a so 1hou6hthb by Eugene Sheffer across 41 River Down i Gudrun Duck 1 footless husband 42 dental 2 ripped 5 train unit problem 3 loll idly 8 cozy 45 marbles 4 like some taverns 49 sell at sports 12 Wood for a lower 5 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