European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 10 the stars and stripes Friday july 13,1990 v a a 1 11 it a.1,1 3sjux Tuzid w a a Ltd j i William f. Buckley what Bush might have on taxes question Quot we Are on the right track George Bush has not been Well served on the whole business of a increasing Revenue  there arc of course two questions the first whether taxes should be raised the second How to bring up the subject if your opposition to higher taxes has become a part of the mosaic code. We  consideration of the economic question but we Are All affected by the damage done to the Fine Art of lip Reading. The president might have issued a statement something like this fellow americans a my friends a fellow taxpayers or whatever during the political Campaign in 1988 i pledged to veto any new tax Bill should Congress undertake to raise taxes. I did so because i believed and i continue to believe that government overhead is too High. We Are paying 34 percent of our Gross National income to governments local state and Federal. We done to begin to Cam Money for ourselves until May 5 a everything earned up until then is taken by governments. I had hoped to go further than to resist any. New tax. I hoped and still do to reduce taxation. Specifically i have backed a reduction in the capital gains tax because i am convinced by the evidence that a. High capital gains tax hinders the accumulation of savings and the investment of capital in fresh enterprises which we need to maintain employment at the current level. But Between the time 1 gave that pledge and today we have received evidence a bit by bit and not All that evidence is in a of an economic tragedy. You have All read about it but Only if you Are a specialist can you be aware of the economic Impact that the failed savings and Loans will have. When i took the oath of office it was anticipated by the overwhelming majority of our economists that the deficit would match the progressive decline in deficits stipulated under the Gramm Rudman Bill. That was As recently As 18 months ago. What happened since then is More and More and More bad Loans James Kilpatrick have come to the surface. Assume a situation in which a determined Mother and father have pronounced themselves committed to a budget from which they pledge themselves not to deviate. Then in january the oldest daughter has an emergency appendectomy. In february the oldest son Breaks his leg. In March the second girl has to have an Eye operation. Well you get the picture. No sensible person could hold that family to a pledge Banach ionized by accumulated obligations the parents could not reasonably foresee i believe that the general propositions that go under the name of Supply Side economics have been vindicated by experience. There is a Point at which the Burden of taxation defeats the purpose of taxation a by undermining the work ethic. For that reason Congress and my predecessor tolerated deficits year after year. But deficits Are sustained by the Confidence of purchasers of our Bonds in our ability to pay interest on those Bonds and finally to redeem them. We Are the wealthiest country in the world by far and the Bankers of the world have helped America to sustain our deficits because of their Confidence that we Are moving in the right direction by indulging deficits up to a Point rather than taxing them out of existence and doing damage to our Basic economic Plant. But obviously there is a limit to the credit any country can get from choosy foreign Bankers. In , the weight of a $500 billion deficit caused by the collapse of the thrifts reorders the priorities. What is supremely important at this Point is to engage in such taxation that does the least damage to the economic engines on which All wealth depends. I shall certainly veto any tax that Repola Rizes the taxation rate on the incremental Dollar. That Way foolishness lies not Only that but a breach of a contract painfully arrived at in 1986, endorsed at that time by every member of the con Gressional committees whose special responsibility is taxation. It is one thing to ask for a Reform of the 1986 income tax code by calling for reduced taxes at any level another to ask for increased rates of taxation. The Revenue we need in order to live up to our word in guaranteeing deposits in our savings and Loans needs to come from the consumer. This is not the time to identify exactly which taxes make the most sense to me. I raise the subject Only to reiterate my opposition to increasing rates of income taxation. And if we Are looking for a Silver lining consider this. If we get a reliable peace in return for the sacrifices we made for 44 years sacrifices that May finally persuade the soviet Union to make bread not War our defense savings Over the next 44 years will make even the $500 billion loss on the thrifts seem trivial. Thank you very much. C Universal press Syndicate Justice miscarried in Case of Florida family Stuart Fla. A in the infuriating matter of Young Todd Neely the Good news and the bad news Are the same. He will have to be tried again for a crime that almost certainly was committed by another person. That is the substance of an order entered on june 27 by Florida a three judge court of Appeal for the 4th District. The court concluded that Neelys first conviction three years ago was a seriously  Neely had been denied the a fundamental fairness required by our judicial system. Nevertheless in the courts View Neely must go through yet another trial so that Justice will be adequately served. The Neely Case is important to the defendant and his family of course but its significance goes far beyond that. It provides a searing example of what can happen when the awesome Power of the state is wrongly applied. As two separate Florida courts now have concluded Neely is the victim of incompetent police an inexperienced and ambitious prosecutor and a couple of witnesses who revised their stories in the period Between arrest and trial. More than anything he is a victim of the bottomless pockets of the state of Florida which apparently is ready to spend whatever it takes to pursue the Issue. The Story goes Back to the evening of june 17, 1986. Todd Neely and his family were having dinner at a restaurant known As the lobster shanty in Jensen Beach. The restaurant clocks its customers in and out As a Check on efficiency of service. A receipt for that evening shows that the Neely party was clocked in at 8 26 and clocked out at 9 31. At 9 12 p.m., Linda Zavatky dialled 911 to report that 10 minutes earlier she had been attacked and stabbed by an intruder at her Home in the River Pines residential development. Neely lived nearby. She provided a description the assailant was a slender boy with Light hair who had braces on his Teeth. He was a a 16,  Zavatky would identify Neely from a photographic lineup that included a High school photograph of Neely that was several years old. Neely has never worn braces. He was 18 at the time the attack was made. In response to her complaint local police made an investigation of sorts. Two officers canvassed the neighbourhood and turned in their canvass sheets. No Effort was made to take fingerprints from the Kitchen knife used in the attack or to connect the knife with Neely. An assistant state attorney formed the theory that Neely his Mother his sister and his Stepfather were All lying about dinner at the lobster shanty. He scoffed at a restaurant receipt indicating dinner for four. His theory was 1 that Neely had never been in the party at All or 2 that he slipped away from the table commandeered his Stepfather s car drove 11 Miles at Breakneck Speed Back to River Pines picked up a knife in his family Kitchen attacked Linda Zavatky and drove Back to the restaurant where he was seen leaving in his parents company. The Case went to a non jury trial in january 1987. Linda Zavatky recanted her statement about the braces. Her Boyfriend who earlier had been incapable of identifying anyone now identified Neely from a an  the defense offered no testimony. Neely was convicted of attempted murder. The judge now retired sentenced him to 15 years in prison. Then All kinds of things began to happen. John Tal Here 3 resident of River Pines read about the Case in the Stuart news. He and his wife were appalled. They were certain the wrong Man had been convicted. During the police canvass a woman police officer had shown Kathy Talliere a composite drawing of the attacker. Talliere made positive identification the drawing closely resembled a neighbourhood kid named Dennis Raether. Raether wore braces. He had committed several sexually deviant acts in the neighbourhood. In March of last year in one of the Many court hearings in this Case two Young women testified that Raether had attacked them sexually in one instance with a Butcher knife. Other testimony came from witnesses who said Raether had boasted to them of the crime. Yet defense attorneys never were Able to get at this evidence because the prosecutor deliberately concealed the canvass sheets. Raether has now disappeared. Police never questioned him. Most of the time the Mill wheels of the Law grind evenly. Gross miscarriages of Justice Seldom occur. But when the process goes berserk As it did in this Case the wheels grind up everything in sight. Ask the Neely family. 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