European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 column the stars and stripes woj Waday january 13.1888 today s crossword paying the Price wifi fever if is Brand Kooney Why is it that everything always Jtj More thine think ii i going to How come we never get used to that fact and figure it in when we take Money out of our pockets to pay for something we at know about inc Taes on everything we docs it come As a Surprise that taxes Are added on to the Price we tee advertised it May be unfair for us to expect people operating a retail business to a Barb the tax and count it in when they while the Price Onawa but that1what i wish they d do. I Hale surprises i wish every once i see advertised in the papers lifted on the menu or written on the Price lag attached to the item included the to i going to have to pay. We Call the plumber or the electrician or the television repairman and we re invariably astounded at what he charges. We Aren t surprised that we re Mak ing a year but we re surprised that the Oil Furnace repairman expects to make a living re shocked that in order 1o make 135,000 work ing a 40-hour week with some hours he Ean l charge to customers he has to ask 125 an hour for his time. I does t matter to o repairman that when he arrives to i our television set he finds the Only problem ii that someone while vacuuming the living roam pulled the plug to the to set out of the Wall. Nowhere is the final amount we have to pay More surprising than in a Good restaurant. The Steak is listed on the menu at si6. You re probably with someone so you double thai and figure you can get out of the restau rant for twice that plus a few dollars. Maybe j40. You have a drink first a salad dessert and Coffee the waiter gets 15 percent. By the Lime you get out of the place the dinner costs you not 540 but s63. When 1 cat in a restaurant i always guns what the Check is going to be when i see the waiter coming with it. In All my years of eating out several times week i have never been surprised by a Check that was is than i though it was going to All know about cars. We know that there Tat always additions to the list Price. If you want your car with wheel Sand an engine they arc Eitra. No matter How Many car we buy. We re still surprised when the final amount behave to pay for a i is s18,230.84. The worst experience for a Young mar cd couple i finally realizing How much the si150,000 House � actually going to Cost them. By inc time the Banks there Are usually several the real estate agent the Surveyor and several Law yen take i hair piece of the action the couple usually has bought a House they can t afford. The trouble with having to pay More than Youpei pct for everything is thai when you get paid for anything yourself it s always less not More than you thought you had coming. If you be Ever stood m a. Line with people picking up i hair paychecks you a watched while one person after another gets the Check rips open the envelope and looks at it shaking his or her head. Employees know about social Secundy they know about lanes and deductions for medical benefits Hul they can never believe that they have so Little left when the paycheck Cumes. I yearn for a world where you get what you pay Forand you pay what is asked for nothing More. 1 want All the prices to be in even numbers and to include local stale and Federal taxes. Nothing will Cost or ii99.any Gas station advertising unleaded Wilar Furll 39.9 instead of the real Price,jt.30, of flee re s999.w.09,and they la have to pay Hin exact Chance. Now that Gary Hart i Back in the Nee for the presidency hit be interesting to ice Bow he does because he has a real american Chancre Ristic Din for him. Thai s the ability americana hit to forgive anyone who Hai made mistake. Our daily Convent Tion in filled with reference to it we a make did t mean to do it " it bygones be and forget hardly a year passes thai you Don t read of Tome at official being re elected in pile of having been caught Healing during his previous term. He has been Are the most forgiving people in the world. It s Nice. When you read where someone Hai been sentenced to 20 years in prison for a terrible crime our system i set up so that the person usually is pardoned and let out of prison in a Yean. The political professionals people who help politicians get elected think thit Factor might help Gary Hart. They fed that by admitting be made a mistake spending the weekend on the yacht Monkey business 1 with Donna Rice he s going to gel a lot of interesting thing about forgiving is it main the person doing the forgiving feel better than the person being forgiven. The person forgiving feels great about himself even though the person forgive still May fee Lousy about it. President Ford for example Felt better about pardoning president Nixon than Ninon Felt Aboul in even though he was grateful. That s whet Gary Han will have going for him. He going to make people feel wonderful about forgiving him i trespasses. If Hart should come out of the new Hampshire primary a Winner As a result of All this it could change politics in America. All the candidate would want to get in on being forgiven As a vote setter sen. Joseph Biden withdrew after being caught Tak ing parts from other people s speeches and using them As his own. We certainly would expect Biden Tore enter the race. He d go before the american Public and say All Gary Hart did was spend a weekend Ona yacht with Donna Rice. Any red blooded american boy might have done that. Hart does t have much Tobe forgiven. I on the other hand ant guilty of plagiarism. That s a lot Wor than anything. Sen. Hart m sorry i did it and i ask your forgiveness for this Jurious mistake i . Ted Kennedy might enter the race George Bush of Texas will remind us that reclaimed his summer place in Maine As his principal residence for la purposes and the irs also that when be ran against Ronald Reagan m the Republican primary in 1980, he accused Reagan of practising voodoo "1 beg your forgiveness for Alt those terrible things said about our great president when i ran against him Bush might a. I was never so wrong. 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