Baker airs his opposition to tax hike
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican
Leader Howard Baker put himself at odds with
Pres. Ronald Reagan on key budget policies
Sunday, saying he opposes a standby tax in
tended to hold down future deficits and would
vote to repeal inflation-adjusted tax cuts.
Baker also served notice Congress will in
sist on deeper cuts in Pentagon spending, scal
ing back the defense budget perhaps twice as
much as Reagan has proposed.
The president is due to send his new
budget to Capitol Hill on Jan. 31. Treasury
Secretary Donald Regan said the administra
tion will not propose new taxes for 1983 and
1984, beyond those enacted last year or already
in the works, to curb deficits nearing $200
billion.
"If we are talking taxes, it’s way in the
future,” Regan said on CBS-TV’s “Face the
Nation.”
"You certainly don’t get an economy mov
ing again by instituting a whole bunch of new
taxes," Regan said. A five-cent-a-gallon in
crease in gasoline tax will take effect this sum
mer and the $168-billion bailout plan Reagan
endorsed for Social Security includes a number
of tax hikes.
Sources say Reagan's budget will call fora
three-year, $135-billion contingency tax in
crease that will take effect late in 1985. The tax,
perhaps an income tax surcharge and a fee on
imported oil, is intended to show declining
deficits.
Baker, who announced Friday he will not
run for a fourth term in 1984, said the budget
will be Congress’ "biggest challenge” this
year, and he made clear that Congress will have
no reservations about rewriting the plan
Reagan proposes.
“We’re going to take the president’s
budget, which is, after all his proposal for a
budget, we’re going to examine it, we're going
to produce a congressional budget,” Baker
said on NBC-TV’s "Meet the Press.”
"Now that doesn’t mean we’re going to re
ject his, but it also means we’re not going to ac
cept his outright,” he added.
Baker joined the two leading GOP tax
writers in Congress in voicing opposition to the
contingency tax hike.
"It is my personal view that it is not a very
good idea,” Baker said, echoing similar
statements from Sen. Robert Dolo, R-Kan.,
chairman of the Finance Committee, and Rep.
Barber Conable, R-N.Y., senior Republican on
the House Ways and Means Committee.
“We're going to do well enough to take
care of this year without trying to figure too ex
tensively on what's going to happen in the
outyears (after 1984),” he said.
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Court stained by racism
SALEM (AP) — Chief
Justice Berkeley Lent of the
Oregon Supreme Court
defended the state judicial
system from racism charges
Saturday, but admitted that
subconscious prejudice
among state judges may exist.
Lent told about 40 people at
a forum of the Oregon
Assembly for Black Affairs
that he is considering ordering
judges to attend a four-hour
conciousness-raising program
to fight such prejudice.
He promised to act if given
firm evidence of prejudice in a
courtroom. Conference at
tendees cited the need for un
prejudiced legal treatment as
one of three top priorities for
the current legislative session.
Lent said Oregon has “the
best” legal aid for those
unable to afford lawyers, and
he cited a Multnomah County
study that he said shows
racial prejudice does not in
fluence judges' decisions. He
also said the state bar has
acted to support minority law
students.
In his 18 years as a Portland
trial lawyer with a high percen
tage of black clients, Lent
said, he saw few judges bias
ed against blacks.
“There were a few excep
tions, and every one of those
(judges) is now gone — by
retirement and many of them
by death,” he said.
But Lent cited a Jewish
women’s group study of
Multnomah County juvenile
court punishments in support
of his view that subconscious
prejudice may exist.
Several state legislators, in
cluding House Speaker Grat
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