European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes August 1985 study shows unfairness7 of tax Pickle says Washington not More than taxpayers with total individual incomes above including More than paid a smaller proportion of their total income in Federal taxes in 1983 than typical Middle income according to a Treasury department study released the the first of its kind Ever done by the depart shows that Many of those wealthy taxpayers paid less than in the average amount paid by a family of four with an income of the study was requested by a senior member of the House ways and Means who made it Public in a statement accompany ing the Pickle if anyone had any doubt about the unfairness of our present tax these figures should convince most of the wealthy americans who paid Little or Noth ing in taxes were Able to do so by taking advantage of tax the Treasury department president Reagan did not refer directly to the but he told a group of religious broadcasters thursday that his tax revision plan was intended to counteract those who would manipulate the system and invest in a tax shelter to get a the study said that the greatest use of tax shelters was in two industries real estate and Oil and the presidents tax plan would abolish much of the favourable treatment now allowed for real estate invest but it would retain Many of the tax Breaks allowed for Oil and Gas previous the Treasury department focused on taxpayers adjusted Gross and they overlooked the fact that Many wealthy taxpayers reduce their taxes by reducing their Gross income through partnership of civilians jobless in july Washington a civilian unemployment remained at percent in its sixth month at that the government said but the Economy created jobs and manufacturing employment held steady for the first time this most of the Job As were in the service Field and not in the Good producing said the labor the number of new jobs largely offset the total of people coming into the labor Force in search of the Pool of unemployed Rose slightly to a total of the civilian labor Force grew by More than the departments monthly Survey of american households almost All of that growth was accounted for by teenagers looking for summer one disturbing piece of news was the number of people Laid off or fired from their that total Rose by total civilian employment Rose to Mil although manufacturing jobs held essentially such jobs have been lost since the beginning of the manufacturing jobs fell by in but that number is considered statistically in this the department used a different what it called total positive that measurement was defined As the sum of wages and dividends and income from profitable businesses and in the department this study could reflect the True income of a typical High income return with total income of paper losses of and an adjusted Gross income fan tax purposes of among the findings of the study were these about of the taxpayers with total incomes above a year paid less than 5 percent of their income and another paid Between 5 percent and 10 More than of the millionaires paid less than 5 percent in and another paid less than 10 the average proportion of income paid in taxes by taxpayers with incomes Between and was about 13 nearly taxpayers with incomes exceeding including owed less than that was the average tax paid by a family of four with an income of nearly half of All upper income taxpayers did pay at least 20 percent of their total income in the Reagan administration and its supporters in con Gress Are Apt to use the findings of the study to support their Campaign to overhaul the income tax any tax Reform Bill adopted by Pickle must contain a Strong and effective minimum tax provi Sion that would require All wealthy taxpayers to pay a certain amount of Back with mom a photo Natalie Wood hugs her 21monthold after he was held upside Down outside a third Story window by his knife wielding father wednesday in British the 33yearold Richard appeared in court thursday and was ordered to undergo psychiatric Hudson might have visitors soon los Angeles a Rock Hudson physical condition remains and his doctors May permit the aids stricken actor to have visitors according to a spokes Man for Hudson Hollywood including Jane Lillian Elizabeth Carol Bur Roddy Mcdowall and Ricardo continue to Call the Hospital to ask about his said spokes Man Dale Olson said the 59yearold actor May be Able to have visitors next Michael Gottlieb said in a statement released by the Urcla medical while his spirits Are Good and physical strength his physicians Are assessing on a Day today basis whether his medical Condi Tion would permit Hes not having visitors at this Hudson spokeswoman during his recent Paris Hospital Yoanou said in Paris that she spoke to a leading aids and was told the actor was sitting up in Collart said he has been in better condition every she added that Hudson paid to charter the air France Jet that flew him from Paris to los Angeles this past week to be treated for the Hudson paid for the Boeing 747 with Money drawn from his new York she Collart said she was responding to rumours that the actors friends paid his Way the Money was paid to Europe which had the plane fitted for Hud sons she Hudson is being evaluated for complications of acquired immune deficiency which Collart said was diagnosed a year the most common victims of aids Are intravenous drug users and it is believed to be spread through sexual contaminated Needles and blood and there is no known stateside City loses Quarter of its Power after Barge snags Power line a an Oil drilling Barge snagged the main Power line for this Southern Louisiana knocking out electricity to on Quarter of the City for up to 12 there were no thank a lot of said Houma police Tony the blackout left boats stranded behind lift Bridges in the intr coastal waterway for mail Sorters were without Power at the Post office so deliveries were called traffic lights went and an extra shift of 13 officers was stationed at major Stop signs were set up at smaller with their own Power said they had no but the cites water system lost pressure and stores and residents reported Freezer philharmonic concert had unwanted accompaniment los Angeles a the thunderous thwack ath Wacky thwack of a police helicopter want what conductor Michael Tilson Thomas had in mind for the second movement of Gustav Mahlers symphony so when the chopper roared Down and circled the Wood Thomas stopped the music and stalked off the the controversy spread to the Glendale and los an Geles police which were accusing each other of interrupting the los Angeles philharmonic concert be fore people at the outdoor we were just in the beginning of the second move which opens with an extremely Beautiful and quiet Thomas it was too wonderful and too special an occasion for something like this to the concert resumed after about 20 Hijack flight attendant will Lead Parade in new York new York a flight attendant Uli praised for her courage during the june hijacking of Twa flight has been chosen honorary grand marshal of the 27th annual Steuben Day becoming the first woman to Lead the German american she has accepted an invitation from the German american committee of greater new York to serve on 21 As the honorary grand marshal of the Steuben Day Parade along fifth Avenue in Walter the parades general Derickson was praised by passengers aboard hijacked Twa flight 847 for standing up to shiite moslem terrorists who hijacked the jetliner june minority journalists Seldom get management Survey finds Baltimore a although they Are More Likely than Whites to say they aspire to newspaper management such posts Are Seldom achieved by minority Jour according to a the results of the the quiet crisis minority journalists and newsroom were announced at the opening of the 10th annual convention of the National association of Black citing 1984 figures from the american society of newspaper the report said 6 percent of those employed As journalists at daily newspapers Are fewer than 40 percent of All newspapers in the nation employ More tourism urged to deter nuclear War Chicago up More tourism and academic Exchange Are better deterrents to nuclear War than missiles because nations Are less Likely to bomb their own families and according to a leading medical George who edits the journal of the american medical said Money now spent on the arms race should be funnelled into the health needs of developing especially for the editorial was one of a series of commentaries and articles in a special edition of the published in the Shadow of the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima