European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes june 1985 George will moral and empirical Points of reagans fax plan talk of accelerated depreciation is on every except those tongues talking about some other aspect of lax spreading fear in gilded mansions and Hope among toiling has the pub pics More it has the Public note the placement of the which tells the essential truth of american on an Issue like tax the Public definite is a there Are lots of Little Public with rival another problem is that the tax Reform drive opens with a dubious moral pronouncement and a suspect empirical the moral Point is that the Public believes the tax system is unfair and the Public perception must be polls show that the unfair Ness of the system is a Low intensity unhappiness about the tax system is being assiduously not least by republicans eager to change the subject from the deficit to the empirical claims is that a tax with business taxes increased will facilitate that May be but no one can know that it and recent events the close conjunction of tax cuts and Mush Rooming deficits should have administration prophets feeling some republicans think their tax Reform will stimulate growth because that is the Way the world assuming that god was Reading the right economics text when he designed the that the Economy should work Best when government works least at influencing the How of using a finely tuned tax Many republicans deplore people who View the tax As a Means of advancing changes in our social Struc those words were in a speech delivered by a Pri vate in in support of Barry Ronald Reagan has gone on saying in 1981 the tax Power must not be used to regulate the Economy or bring about social i in will go on saying it As he praises a tax plan that includes tuition lax credits to improve the educational special tax treatment of businesses in Enterprise special rates to encourage Small provisions to nurture Energy sup increased personal exemptions justified As family and so let social goals influence tax policy heaven for but in is possible to View the proposal to end the deductibility of state and local taxes As the second punch in the one two of the first punch was the 1981 vote for tax cuts which shrank the Revenue base of the Federal this produced a dangerous economic the and a stunning political result it changed the political Conversa Tion of the perhaps for a this years House and Senate budget resolutions differ about Many James Kilpatrick but not about the Central they agree that the Issue is not whether but where to Cut Reagan altered the Federal Agenda by shrinking Feder al and now he proposes to restrain state and local government by altering a line in the Federal tax ending the deductibility of state and local taxes will increase the real Burden of those taxes on this will alter the taxing and spending environment in which state and local politicians the administration will defend in terms of economic efficiency the proposal to increase the tax Burden on but the proposal involves political calculation and failure of it would take uncommon nerve to act on reagans reiterated an Correct belief be cause we do not know who pays business they might Well be which is suddenly in involves saying general motors must pay its fair share so grandma can pay liberals traditionally talk As though they can Pluck from thin air the indisputable truth about the fairness of every conservatives should not compete on that Rath they should earn respect by results born of but populist conservatism is the wave of the this populism historically involves impatience with suspicion of big institutions and big and reverence for whatever the people Are thought to believe this so populist conservatism is an Treasury Secretary James Baker recently told an audience that tax Reform is rooted in which is opposed to opposed to excessive concentrations of Power and oriented toward Bakers Call to egalitarianism was Well received by his the Houston chamber of which peered under the tables and behind the potted Palms to make sure no elites were c Washington Post Reagan seeks of Correct Liberal judicial imbalance Ronald has put his conservative stamp on everything within his reach a military a reduction in Federal a sweeping revision of the criminal code Hes going for wholesale Reform of Federal but none of these changes approaches in importance the Mark he will leave on the Federal writing in the current Issue of judicature Sheldon Goldman takes an evenhanded and measured look at the Goldman is a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts in he has made a specially of judicial appointments in the Federal sys his general finding is that As a has followed the example of such democratic predecessors As Jimmy Carter and Lyndon he has attempted deliberately to shape the Law by nominating judges who share his political and judicial Carter and Johnson named Liberal democrats to the Federal Reagan is naming conserva Tive republicans this is the Way our constitutional system has Goorge Washington set the pattern by packing the first supreme court with Loyal supporters of the new cons Titu with few presidents from that Day to this have nominated justices and lower court judges of their own political Franklin Roosevelt had eight supreme court slots to fill he put Good democrats in every one of and one of his William served on the High court for 30 years after Roosevelt goldmans data thus provide few but the figures Are of interest Johnson named 122 District judges 115 were Nixon made 179 District appointments 166 were Carter put 202 judges on the lowest Federal Bench 187 were in his first Reagan was Able to nominate 129 judges All but four were goldmans study found that Reagan and Carter had equal records of naming judges with a background of past party in both 61 percent of their District court nominees had sought or held some party in Many other the Carter and Reagan judges have been quite Carter named 29 women at the District court level Reagan has named Only Carter chose 28 Blacks Reagan has nominated but attorney general de Meese has observed that Only a tiny minority of Black Black judges and Black Legal scholars share reagans conservative Carter named proportionately More Reagan More most of Carters judges got their Legal education at stat supported institutions Reagan has drawn More heavily on private and Ivy league schools of four percent of Carters District court nominees won ratings of exceptionally Well qualified from the Amer ican bar association 7 percent of reagans were so Carter named 10 judges with a net Worth of More than Reagan has named Reagan has made no Bones about his concern for the judicial philosophy of his his deliberate aim is to restore the balance that was upset by Jimmy toward that end Reagan has created an eight Man committee on judicial selection that meets every thurs Day afternoon in the Roosevelt room of the White the committees special concern is with vacancies on the 12 circuits of the court of Carter was Able to put 56 of his nominees on the circuit All but 10 of them in his first term Reagan named 31 circuit All of them Twenty two circuit judgeship now Are by the end of his second Reagan probably will have won confirmation of More than 300 opportunities May Well arise for him to name additional supreme court for five of the High courts nine members Are More than 75 years of if his nominees Are Young and steadfastly conservative we can expect to see a conservative cast to the Law into the 21st for those of us on the conservative to quote consummation devoutly to be c Universal press Lisa the opinions exp Reed in the columns and cartoons on this Paw represent those of the authors and Are in no Way to be considered As representing those of the Start and stripes or the United states