European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes sunday january 5, 19b6 Carl Rowan tugging scheming May produce fair tax system or Fisik atom Fittim it pit a j in browbeating 70 republicans into allowing Thi House of representatives to pass inc Rostenkowski lax Reform Bill president Reagan did 10 things he Sho Down he idea thai in already is a lame Duck president facing More than three years of rebellions and Malinics by thebon Michels Jack Kemps Imd Trent dolls of the Republican world. He gave cynics like me a Little reason to believe Thill lie is serious about lax Reform and thai gop conservatives in the House were wrong in assuming that they were res cuing their president from having to give genuine support to n cause he was Only trying to lather with lip  in convincing Republican conf Iress men like Henry Hyde of Illinois and Guy Vander jag of Michigan that he is Silil the Leader and they he followers Reagan did something he May never have intended to do he virtually guaranteed that the Congress is going to put on his desk the most in a club Ficano far reaching and fair Reform of taxes in at least 40 years. And Reagan will be undersell generated irresistible pressures 0 sign inc new lax Bill int Law. One reason is thai this drama within inc Republican party his Challenge to a popu Lar president has drawn Ordinary americans deeper into he Issue. Americans want fairer and simpler lax Laws with More Pas Sion than they have exhibited in my lifetime. Reagan was twisting out of their sockets he arms of some republicans who assailed the Rostenkowski measure is awful seriously flawed and an ugly hog before enough of inem relented and allowed n House Vole on the Bill. Some of those relent ing republicans pretend 10 believe Hal the Senate will reshape the lax codes 10 reel Republican Lasics and that if it can t do Hal Reagan will veto the measure. But the Senate and a conference commit tee will produce tax codes that president Reagan will have to sign if he docs not want to say to America in the crunch was a phony. I never wanted real Lait Reform Tom Wicker l now let s 60 reorganize m Pentagon " Many Rentis carts never wanted a of tax rate As High As Reagan s proposed 35 percent and profess outrage that the Rostenkowski Bill would Only lower it to i percent from a present High of 50 percent. But he Public will never accept Reagan s Sci living of a Reform because of n trifling difference of a paint or two in the Mam mum tax rate. The House republicans who worked hard est of sabotage the president were Clio Ting on the Roslyn Kowsz proposal to Tell some b Mil lion poor americans that they no longer will Nave 10 pay taxes because corporations arc going to have to pay their fair share some ii 40 billion a year. The Senlac knows that of All the tax free rides that americans most detest he fail ure of corporations to pay a reasonable tax is Al the lop of their list. There will be no Way that Canan can veto a Tan Bill on grounds that m is Loo hard on corporations and too Nice to poor families. The dynamics of politics in a free society arc working the Way they arc supposed to in America. Out of All the tugging arid scheming we just might get the fairest tax system we be known this Side of the Boston Tea party. C 1w5 news America synd Cai calling Reagan a lame Duck was just one mistake if it looks like a Duck quacks like Duck and walks with a Limp in must be a lame Duck. But not always As a health Duck named Ronald Reagan has just demonstrated. In the House of representatives 92percent of Republican members had opted to keep lax Reform from coming 10n Vole thwarting the desires of the Afore mentioned Reagan. Such inability to control his own party made president Rea Gan a lame Duck said speaker Thomas  o Neill who ought to know one when he sees one. The speaker s remark was  in approving terms in his space on dec. 16. But beginning Over a bus weekend and but minting in a personal visit that very Day to a caucus of Republican House members Reagan talked some thing in excess of 50 statesmen into Chang ing their votes. With Hal lax Reform carried the Day and my o Neill and yours truly with webbed feel in their Mouths. As an admirer of lax Reform and a connoisseur of adept politicians and mixed metaphors i am glad to cat Crow. The tax Bill did not Mark Reagan s descent into what with his habitual Good nature he called lame  and whether in the Long run even so resourceful a Leader can escape thai lurching stale time and not columnists will Tell. As 1985 finally has expired and nol moment Loo soon would that no other mis Calls misjudgments and journalistic misfeasance clamoured for redress. Alas fal now ii tile Man most ignorant of what he most assured is unlikely to turn out 96 impeccable articles a year and 1 did t. Tax Reform provides still another exam ple though less Clear Cut than lame Duck cry. I offered three cheers for the House Bill s reduction of lax brackets from 14 to 4 Waller Beer or of Brooklyn says Ihre Boos 1 would be More appropriate since four brackets make he tax system Les progressive hence less fair and nol really any simpler. Four still seems to me Les complicated Ihan 14, Bui arithmetic was theoretically. " never my Strong suit. On sept 27, in the heat of the Pennant races i asked Why baseball players atone among All Oiler americans should be required to take mandatory unscheduled tests for drug abuse. Not a few letters from  out Hal hey already Art required a submit to such tests. Although tax paid military personnel seem to me in a differ ent status from ballplayers thai does redeem my factual error which is re Gajc Ltd. In an article about attorney generated a desc s efforts to restrict judges interpretations of the Constitution to the intent of the founding fathers i cited an opinion of supreme court Justice Sandra Dayo Connor. She had written that there were no Public schools when the first amendment was adopted. Robert w. Lord of new York Points out that there were Public school systems in new eng land at that time though nol All the mid dle states had them and some Southern states did not until after the civil War. Could have Learned that. Lord chide me from the encyclopaedia Bril Artitia and wish i had. Finally taking note of army Hopes reinstate mules As puck animals Wilh the new Light division 1 quoted Liuia Faulkner s opinion that a mule will labor 10 years willingly and Ali Nelly for  the privilege of kicking you once. R John flood of Sarasota deeply offended replied that mules rarely if Ever kick men in  that will he news to Many mule survivors As will flood s dictum that the commands gee1 and Haw ure uses for oxen nol  but As demonstrated Here there can Little quarrel Wilh flood s further opinion that a mule s Skull is not As thick As a Newyork times cajun twist s. This can be Corror rated by striking i mule Over the head withe talking end of the col air miss. The mule i Skull will be crushed every  Best wishes for a better 86, us new York time Newi Arviet