European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 6 a a a the stars and stripes monday july 30,1990effect of cil Cohol Cix plan detailed poor would Bear the biggest Burden Washington apr the Bush administration s proposal to increase taxes on alcoholic beverages would Cost the average american family $101 a year with the greatest Burden falling on the poor congressional analysts say. The proposal which would Cost drinkers $7.2 billion a year is part of the second deficit reduction tax increase offered by the administration this year the new package has yet to be agreed to by Republican congressional Leaden a let alone by top democrats a who Are trying to negotiate deficit cuts of More than $50 billion for next year. Under the proposal the $1.98 Federal tax on a fifth of 80-proof Vodka would Rise to $2.54. For the first time in almost 40 years taxes on Beer and wine would be raised As Well so that an ounce of drinking alcohol would be taxed at 25 cents regardless of the form. That would boost the 16-cent tax on a six pack of Beer to 81 cents and the 3cent fax  wine to 76 cents. The tax is based on alcohol Content and would go up accordingly. Analysts say the Impact would be Felt most by those with the lowest incomes simply because they tend to spend a greater share of their earnings on alcohol. According to the congressional budget office the 20 percent of americans with the lowest incomes averaging $8,228 after taxes spend $308 a year or 3.7 percent on liquor wine and Beer. The top one fifth with after tax incomes averaging $77,622, spend about $1,210, or 1.6 percent. A second new element of the administration plan would target upper income americans. For the first time it would limit the Federal deduction for state and local income taxes a to $10,000 per couple or individual. Officials Hope to raise up to $3 billion a year. Figures from the joint committee on taxation indicate that 86 percent of taxpayers with incomes under $50,000 a year would pay Only 0.2 percent of that tax increase. Couples and individuals in the $50,000-to-$75,000 Range would pay 0.5 percent those Between $75,000 and a a a and those making would pay 11.2 percent of the increase. Those earning More than $200,000 would pay 86.2 percent of the $3 billion. 0.5 percent those bet $100,000, 1.9 percent $100,00 to $200,000 i anything falling so disproportionately on the Well to do is usually endorsed by democrats but not this idea. It did no to take Long for them to figure out that limiting the deduction of income taxes would make it More difficult for states to raise those taxes. Quot every governor of every state has got to be opposed to any plan that would merely shift yet More of the Cost of providing services to the states Quot said Bruce Fisher of citizens for tax Justice a Union financed research group that advocates higher taxes on the Rich. A in general Quot Fisher added a this would be a tax on successful state economic growth and All that has gone into it forty one states have a personal income tax in most it is the prime source of Revenue. The irs has no current estimate on How Many couples and individuals claim a deduction of Over $ 10,000 for state and local income taxes. However on returns filed in 1989, the 46 percent of taxpayers who itemized deductions claimed a write off averaging Only about $3,800 for income and property taxes combined. The proposal would not affect the Deduc Tion of property taxes. While the Well to do would have to Swallow most of that $3 billion tax increase As a group they would come out ahead when the entire administration package is considered. That is because the most contentious element of the plan is the same As when president Bush sent it to Congress last january a reduction in the tax on capital gains which Are profits from the Safe of Stock and other investments. Bush contends the reduction would prompt so much economic activity that investors actually would pay $4.9 billion More in taxes in 1991 and still More in every year in the future. Democrats agree the Cut would boost collections in one year but say it quickly would become a Drain on the Treasury. But their opposition is rooted in another Factor More than 80 percent of the tax Cut would go to those with incomes Over $100,000 a year. About half of the $50 billion plus deficit reduction proposed by the administration for next year would come from tax increases including user fees and the Cut in capital gains taxes. He a got a Bug about Elvis a cockroaches leave some people All Shook up but Jamie Buchsbaum of Cincinnati loves them tender. Buchsbaum the 26-year-old founder and president of cockroaches unlimited dresses up dead Roaches like this one he Calls Quot Elvis  the Elvis Roach comes comes Complete with a guitar microphone and Blue suede shoes. The words Quot Elvis lives Quot Are written across the cockroaches legs. Stateside woman does no to let labor Stop her from testifying Oakland Calif. Apr the victim of an attempted purse snatching insisted on delivering her testimony in court even though it almost meant delivering her baby on the witness stand. Chavez Lynch a week overdue with her first child was in beginning labor when she was taken into the courtroom in a wheelchair for a pretrial hearing. Quot it was extremely obvious a municipal court judge Jack Gifford said. Quot just after she started testifying she had a contraction and it certainly concerned  Gifford asked Lynch if she wanted to continue. A she said a yes in a Here. I want to finish  a As soon As she finished testifying Lynch was wheeled out of the courtroom and rushed to a Hospital where she gave birth some hours later. The Hospital at Lynch a request would not release any information about Mother or  celebrate a until jail do they part new York apr a couple having their wedding dinner shared a second important event. They were arrested together after a customer at the restaurant recognized the Man. Jerry Conner and Sheila Maria Boyd told police they had been married 15 minutes before their arrest on robbery charges. Conner 27, and Boyd 23, Are accused of robbing 13 patients and five employees in a doctors office last month said sgt. Edward bums a police spokesman. The victims lost $890 in Cash and $7,000 in jewelry he said. One of the victims was at cobblestones restaurant with a Friend when she thought she recognized Conner As the Man who had held a gun to her head during the robbery. She called police no arrested the couple. They were charged with 18 counts of robbery and criminal Possession of a weapon bums said.3 teens charged in firebombing of a act office Riverdale a. Up a three teenagers were arrested in an apparently racially motivated firebombing that gutted an office of the National association for the advancement of coloured people police said. Clayton county Public safety director Ronnie Clackum said two 16-year-Olds and a 15-year-old were in police custody Friday night charged w Ith arson and criminal Possession of an incendiary device. Earl Shinhoster regional director of the a act expressed Shock at the age of the suspects. Quot that a Young. That is very Young a Shinhoster said. A it does give us cause to pause and wonder about what kind of indoctrination and orientation our Young people Are getting and from where that is  Clackum said police were Able to find suspects because of cooperation Between Federal state and local investigators. A most comes committed by cowards in the dead of the night certainly Are More difficult to solve and bring to a conclusion Quot Packum said. Clackum said the tuesday firebombing that destroyed the inside of the office apparently was racially motivated. The attack was related to racial tensions among students from Riverdale Middle school the safety director said but he did not elaborate on the situation at the school. He did say the racial antagonists were Black As Well As  Shinhoster added that the a act had received reports of racial strife at several Gayton county schools including Riverdale Middle school. Packum said the evidence leading to Thi arrest came from a fingerprint lifted from i piece of evidence found at the firebomb i scene. He said that fingerprint matched of of the juveniles fingerprints. The 15-year-old also is a suspect in a july 16 bombing that slightly damaged the exterior of the a act office. Clackum said the 15-year-old allegedly convinced the two 16 year Olds to help Hirr with the second bombing