European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 columns the stars and stripes wednesday october 8,1986 today s crossword copy and file in a Washeba Sjef Brand Rooney i Wallo a in paper. When he mail comes it s a plethora of paper most of which i Don t need or want at the office 1 get originals and duplicates of every thing and then Jane makes copies of he copies. Jane and 1 work together. She is better organized than i am but she is obsessed with making copies. One year when i got my eight licked for the giants Home football Garanci she xeroxed my tickets 10 she d have a record of them. I still use the word Xerox even though i know it s a Trade name. The proper word for what i mean i photocopy but it s no nearly so Good a word As sorry about that Xerox i also Call paper handkerchiefs kleenex Al plastic cups styrofoam and sometimes i even Call the record player the America has gone mad with paper since the invention of photocopy machines and now the compute printers Are spewing Forth More printouts of every thing anyone possibly could have a use for. Once upon a time every office had a Secretary who spent most of the Day typing things dint did t need to be typed. Now it no longer takes a Secretary to make a duplicate of anything. A walk to the copying machine is As much a part of office routine for the average executive As a walk to the water cooler used to be. The executive often makes copies of things that Don t Nee to be copied while the Secretary is at the water cooler. If you doubt we re using too much paper walk through the business area of any Large City before 6 . And see what the trash people Are picking up. They re packing huge bundles of paper with printing on it and Little holes along its edges into their compacting trucks making copies of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving americans a new sense of purpose. Duplicating things makes people feel they re doing something important and while they re doing hut they Don t have to do any real work. If 1 were in the paper business i d be nervous. Business was never better for these companies than it is right now but certainly there has to be a reaction. A some Point the average american is going to revolt enough already they re going to cry. Stop Snow ing us under with paper.". A just completed study concludes that . Busi Nesses waste j2.6 billion annually on unnecessary photocopies. It estimates that 350 billion photocopies Are made every year and that one third of them will end up in the wastebasket this is a conservative estimate. I have no Way of guessing How Many photocopies will be made but i do have a Way of guessing what proportion of them win go into the wastebasket. All 1 have to do is look at my own wastebasket. I throw out at least half of All the printed material that comes into my office without opening the envelopes it comes in. I discard another 40 percent of it after giving it a Quick glance and of the 10 percent i actually read i save 2 percent. There Aren t enough filing cabinets in the whole United states in which to put All the copies of All the documents being duplicated. If there were enough Fil ing cabinets there would t be any place to put them. If there were filing cabinets enough and storage space enough there s no one with time enough to read them. A piece of paper that s been duplicated on a photo copy machine reeks of the same sense of Unimportance that a Carbon copy used to have. When you were the person who got the Carbon copy of something in Stead of the original you knew you weren t very important. Thai s the Way most of us feel now when beget something that s been you la Pardon the express Ion Xerro ced. Everybody owns nobody loses by Art Buchwald the lax Bill has been passed and while no one understands it every expert seems to be producing a who won who lost column. What do taxpayers really think to find out i decided to speak to a representative from each tax bracket affected by the legislation. The first one i talked to was a poor person. How do you feel about the tax Reform Bill very Good he said poor people have prayed for meaningful tax Reform and Are delighted in is finally Here. We have continually maintained that once the tax system became fair the poor would be willing Topay their share which in our Case is do you believe that if the poor lower class i no obligated to pay taxes it will encourage Many in the Middle class to become poor on the surface it sounds like an incentive for the Middle class. But there is More to being poor than not wanting to pay taxes such As having Rotten housing eating bad food and walking in unsafe neighbourhoods. I Hale to think that people would choose to be poor just to save Money on Mieir what Are you going to do with the Money you save by not paying taxes tasked. Invest in Bonds buy out Donald Trump or take Over lbs. There in no telling what a poor person i capable of doing when be does t have to give every thing to undo sam.". Next 1 sought out a Rich person. Sir i said i would like to talk to you about the new tax Reform Bill. He was very Serene. I pay All the Tes i m obligated to pay not to mention the fees i am charged by those who handle my i am Happy to hear that. Do you see yourself a Winner or a loser with inc new to Law when in comes to taxes Rich people Are never winners. We Are always looking for ways to make the code More s Why we support so Many experts and accountants to make sure that we arc paying our portion. After All what is Money if you can t share it with Washington does thai make you a Winner or a loser this particular Bill takes away Many of the deductions thai the Rich considered part of their life support systems. But the wonderful thing about being Rich is that whatever they do to you you can always find a Way of getting around it. If there i any bitterness amongst the Nch it is that in writing the lax Reform Bill congressmen and senators abandoned the class who financed their Way to Power. The very people whose campaigns we donated to have set a Torch to our lax you re taking it extremely Well 1 said. The Art of being Rich in to pretend that nothing bothers the final person i spoke to was a Middle class tax payer. Do you consider yourself a Winner or a loser in the new tax Bill i asked. At the beginning i will be a Small loser but eventually i la be a big Wiener. The Middle class is always a Winner when it comes to income do you honestly believe that i asked him. No but 1 thought you d like an upbeat note for the end of your column pc Lim Al fifth Tiff in by Eugene Sheffer across 39 cheer1 prayer 41 silence suck 43 passage naive am. 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