European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes columns & comments Carl Row an Senate commit fee Vafed fhe Sara ghz false ticket Truk or pause the big multinational Banks and corporations especially those building weapons Rule America. Money earned by Money Wilt be Lusyd More lightly in Liis country than Money earned by the sweat of labourers pour americans Art virtual voiceless and surely Coulle s. And will never be favored by Lav Laws. 1 Tux Millers Are Mil insidious sops in inc Rich bul Art inducements necessary id getting wealthy people in finance decent housing fur the aged or the poor plus other social endeavours that nuke sir a More decent society. Without deductions for iras individual retirement accounts and other Sav Ings programs the american people would never build up enough capital to make the wheels of Industry and Commerce turn in inc crunch on issues like a incs and profits inc Washington lobbyists prove again that. We have the Best Congress Money can buy. A reasonable facsimile of this lest was Given to members of i lie Senate finance committee and a a nation s Aston ish Muni the lawmakers voted 10-0 thai inc answer to All of the above is . The entire Senate and House and presi Dent Reagan arc going to have to take Shis Tesi in inc nest Tew weds. Their Trues and fax she will Tell us a Tot about the kind of society we have formed. . Robert Packwood r-ore., und his finance committee colleagues Are saying that the anguish cd cries or America s Low income families Are being heard and that the Las rate will be reformed so thai 6 million relatively poor people will pay no taxes. The committee is saying thai it is derailing the Gravy train of some Compa Nies in the military Industrial Complex which defer and never seem to face up 10 lax liabilities. Thus. Inc privileged Rul ing corporations Are going la wind up George will excuse me any of Vou Fella seen my two Reform Bill paying a fair share of taxes. The Rich Are supposed 10 find Tux Dodges hard to came by and a new mini mum lax hard to Swallow und we arc All destined to wind up cheering a More just America. Well who thinks the savings and loan people the Banks the Slock brokers who have sold $250 billion Worth of iras Are going to Ziilch meekly As Pael Wood Al a i wipe out this tax expenditure the investment Industry already is screaming that cancelling the deductibility. Of Ras would be others Are saying that 10 wipe oui inc capital gains preferences on Money earned from stocks and other deals older than six months would be even More crushing to inc Economy. I Don i need to be labor inc Point the Pickwood Reform offends a lol of greedy americans but it also troubles millions who believe that inc Las code is properly used to Foster social Good the lobbyists in june will be busting out All Over in Washington. And most of i hem will be Good lobbyists fight ing in behalf of Good causes they will go la inc Mal with Pickwood & friends. When it All washes out you and i Cun Lake anew thai True or false Ijuin about the heart and soul of America. Reagan campaigning against president Ford for the Republican Nomi nation mentioned the canal negotiations and got a throaty Roar from a crowd. Satin Appa Silian 10 inc canal treaties became a isl of conservative Purily. Never mind that some conspicuous conservatives such As Bill Buckley supported the treaties Baker supported the treaties. In the Lute 1970s, before conservatism came of age Muny conservatives defined themselves by i hair animosities. In 1980 thai Petty habit acquired in Long years in the political wilderness Mude Baker its victim lie even More than George Bush was the moderate that some conserva lives loved to hate. In addition to the canal treaties Liis sins were general he was a Washington insider and partic ular he supported establishment of the education department. Talk about perishable absolutes today the Secretary of education William Bennett the conservatives1 pinup among Cabinet members. Bul the canal was the sin thai mattered most Baker remembers Missouri sen. Jack Danforth u dry wit. Idling him after a weekend Back Home Howard Missouri is a state of nearly six million souls of diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds United by a burning Devotion to the Panama bul new Suys Baker the Cinal decade is Over and in i9sb every one seeking the Republican nomination will be a Rea Anile. Daring a recent checkup a doctor told Baker he was overweight. Baker cheerfully replied yes and you re me gets away with such bad Inage because he has a manner As soft As Hominy another senator once described Baker As a political Neu tron bomb who destroys an opponent without destroying thai opponent s ego. But Baker s ego has absorbed some bruises. Before winning the position of re publican Leader in the Senate he twice lost contests for thai Job. In 1976 he wus encouraged to Hope that he would be Ford s running male. When Dob Dole was chosen. Baker said in a Sicly voice thai next Lime his Fate would be in his own hands. But in Issaq he withdrew after finishing a Distant third in new Hampshire Reagan 49.6 percent Bush 22,7. Baker 9.8baker s Placid informality loony masks a determination to do in right ibis time around the conventional Wisdom is that he cannot that he is a born legislator unable to make people think of him As presi Dent. A legislative career with its focus on this Bill then that one Ihen an Isimal tree politicians rather Ilion Forest that is legislators do not Muster inc Art of speaking and expressing a Broad vision. The re publican professional just died assesses Baker s chances by quoting the baseball Man in the novel bang the drum slowly who Suys of weak pitchers that they could win a few games if god drops everything Baker is going to Pui Bis of eggs in inc conc Lional bask i new Hampshire where his Campaign is being sponsored by sen. Warren Rudman who is co author of inc Gramm Rudman Law bul is otherwise a Good citizen. Baker is unemployed Tike the Winner of the 1976 democratic and 1980 Republican and 19k- democratic Nomina lion so he will be Able to do the retail politics which new Hampshire Cipe ets. If he runs Well there and then runs off straight Minlu a Southern regional primary he could quickly become in the argot of his vocation a stranger things have happened. Stranger bul not More pleasing. Re Wash Gloa poll wring oud the open Joni Chare de in the column and Carloni on this Page regrets no Luwie or in Ulhan and 4re ii other unrelated one. Produces in the Eny " � nine do i a Nik tin of n i i r T Start find sit do of Irtel in 0d stat at Paar or Dianing jargon of one Republican profs Mam
