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- V"» •«•r The Srfndy Post Editorial & Opinion Von Brotchler, Publisher Caroline Duff Office Manager Don Dillon, Editor Scott Newton. News Editor SANDY, OREGON THURSDAY. JULY 29 1982 Tax revamp could lure new jobs Insom nia-w eary le g isla to r s, short-sheeted by revenue short fall, next session may wrestle with a state sales tax almost no one wants In c r ea sin g ly d isa p p o in tin g state revenue shortfall has caused many skeptical legislators and others to consider the new tax on all items as the easiest way to balance the already battered state budget after two emergency bandage sessions So don’t be surprised to see some education and business ad vocates promote the value-added tax as a savior to state woes. New Senate District 14 can didate Joe Davis of Silverton said he’d support a sales tax only if us ed to offset property and income tax, noting attractiveness of this tax system to businesses who might loate here. “ It’s a fact that it’s going to cost them (more) to come to Oregon.) S te v e S ta r k o v ic h , S e n a te District 14 candidate from Canby, figures from a poll of Democrats that a lot of folks who favor sales tax (high as 43 percent) really are concerned with education fun ding. Starkovich, however, op poses the new tax as hurting peo ple on fixed and limited incomes who most need help. He said the added tax would look more attrac tive to him, if it were earmarked specifically and not simply col lected like a new state treasure chest. Solidly behind a state sales tax drive, on the other hand, are 112 business and government leaders who met recently in Corvallis to devine methods to create a better business clim ate in Oregon for new employers. They recom mended a 6.5 percent sales tax charged on everything but food and drugs replace personal in come tax and corporate excise tax. Revenues, they said, could be dedicated to 50 percent property tax relief, as well as state govern ment costs. They back that bite with recommendation for a tax limitation amendment. S ta te Sen. Ken J e r n ste d t <R—Hood River) concurs on the need to examine sales tax. “ I have figured for some time we would have some sort of value- added tax,” he said. “Although I don't like it, I thing Oregon is go ing to have to take a look at something more than bandaids.” Rep. Wayne Fawbush (D-Hood River) opposes a state sales tax as a regressive, consumer tax that “wouldn’t even be considered if Oregon weren’t in such bad fiscal state.’’ The House Revenue Committee member said he’d find the tax more palatable, if it ex empted food and drugs and replaced some of the property tax. Fawbush, who predicts per sonal political trouble represen ting Antelope’s “Geru City’’ if e le c te d in new d is tr ic tin g , predicts more trouble for the sales tax measure. Biggest pro blem, he said, would come from legislators putting the measure before voters November with a more popular 1.5 percent tax limitation referendum. Perhaps a state sales tax would prove politically as unpopular as a swami in a foreign land. But savior businesses aren’t exactly flocking to Oregon’s economic aid with needed new jobs, either So maybe the Corvallis symposium has a point. After all, Oregonians already pay cigarette, alcohol, gas and hotel sales taxes The state cof fers must be replaced, or a coffin laid for some services like schools as presently funded (VB) Clinic given new ‘lease’ on life Sandy Mental Health Clinic, homeless with cut rent funds, has found new life in donated space of a church basement, thanks to Im manuel Lutheran Church. Faced with state and federal revenue cutbacks, Blake Fischer- Davidson of Clackamas County Mental Health opted to abandon the satellite office to save jobs of staff members who commute he. “ Pastor Frank Koepke and his congregation have been just great to us,’’ he said “ Historically churches have been very suppor tive in Estacada and Molalla ” The Mololla office is housed in a church, while the Estacada office was in a church before relocation in a rented office and now in a pre school Originally seven years ago the Sandy clinic was housed in the b asem en t of C o m m u n ity Presbyterian Church Trained counselors meet at 39901 Pleasant Avenue here 9-5 p .m . M on d a y s th ro u g h Thursdays, with evening appoint ments available. Current clients may call 655-8338 for an appoint ment, while new clients should call 655-8401. Counselors here address pro blems of alcohol, drugs and chronic mental illness, as well as other problems of adults and children The health clinic reports only a two-day lapse in local service dur mg the relocation, and that oc- cured during the Fourth of July weekend Roses to the people of Im manuel Lutheran and our gutsy mental health workers for finding a way to continue this valued com - munity service (VB) Salem scene: State youth eye business by JACK ZIM M E R M A N Assorlated Oregse Isdeslrtes Free enterprise isn't free People have lo work lo make it work for them That’s the gist of the first lesson learned by some 100 high school students and so teachers attending the third annual Oregon Huameas Week recently on the Monmouth campus of Wester Oregon State Collets The lesson was pari of a Sunday evening opening lecture by John Alltucker of Eugene that inaugurated s full week of in tensive educational experiences relating to the rote of business in society Allturker owner of Eugene Sand 4b Gravel, la typical of some IM volunteers from business and industry who make up the faculty of the program Jointly tpon sored by Associated Oregon Industries, the State Department of Education, Oregon Ceencti an Economic Education and w o g c Moro than M additions volunteers Kva an campus during the week serving as company advisers te students aad À I t f i i U l i « » • e w Iram *>• VUU (« p iU l ( K C lU H V l W Or«*on » Waaaty Ma«»#a eavv »ram Atta« .atad Oaean meuttrta« event by detailing specific laws of economic understanding “ Without a healthy economic system.“ he said, “society « social and political systems are doomed to disorder and col lapse, ” Me explained that all group activities begin with investments of several kinds Wealth, ha said, is created by converting natural resources into usable products Governments don't croate wealth “ Government can’t give anything sway, until It takas something first-ta xe s for in stance,” he said “ Instead of creating wealth government redistributes It ” Oregon Business Weak Is ctaaety pal tamed after a similar program bunched in the S tab of Washington in 1PM. Rattan said and versions of the original are now being offered in a total of is states. * 4 Tax-Free Cigarettes, Letters to the editor: Reader argues against ‘paper’ money Blame US banks To q uo te B aro n Rothchild. “ I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England The man that controls Britain’s money controls the British Empire '* And in this na tion today we have our own Baron Rothchild, called the Federal Reserve Bank' We have both an elected government in Washington and an unelected govern m e n t in the F e d e ra l Reserve System run by the money barons of Wall Street Our economy is not run by the Congress or the President, but instead is run by private banks that create money, control its volume and set the level of interest rates This situs tion has led us to have a dual government This bad state of affairs will not be eliminated by business and labor negotia tions, mainly because they both have to survive in the same economic environ ment If the value of our m e d iu m of ex ch an g e becomes less for labor, it follows that business has the same problem So it's no wonder that things get hot and heavy at contract time, when the negotiations start Consider this: When a savings and loan associa tion, an insurance com pany or credit union makes a loan, it lends the very dollar that its customers have previously paid in But when a bank makes a loan, it simply adds to the borrower’s deposit account in the bank by the amount of the loan It is new money, created by the bank for the use of the bor rower You may ask how can they create money like that legally ** They can't Not ac cording to the Constitution, anyway The Coinage Act of 1792 states that a dollar is 241 75 grains of gold and 371 25 grains of silver not Federal Reserve notes we so naively accept as coin of the realm. Of course, you’ll hear arguments against the gold and silver stkndards for this country It causes great difficulty in settling international debts The rigid standard restricts economic growth Unfortunately for the in ternational bankers. I as an American taxpayer could care less how more dif ficult it makes their job Whatever it takes to get a sound and “ legal' dollar back in the hands of the citizenry is most impor tant, not how easy can we make it for the banking in dustry So le t's in fo rm the elected part of the govern ment that the unelected part of government has got to go If not for their re- election. then for our economic freedom Ralph A Sandercock Jr. Sandy River crossed The family of Stephen Nicholls wishes to express t h e ir most s in c e re gratitude to all of our friends and neighbors of the Sandy community and many others from near and far who have been helpful with their many expres sions of sorrow and sym pathy over the loss of our son and brother We hope cross your own Rubicon." somehow to let everyone Steve has crossed his know how much th eir Rubicon. prayers, expressions and m any kind acts have Dale and Doris (Dad and helped to sustain us To Steve's many per Mom) Nicholls, Marilyn, so n al frie n d s in the Janice, Beverly, W illiam, Portland area and all over C a th e rin e , Jam es and the world, we thank you for Donald, and Steve's very dear friend Lucy LeBlanc your heartw arm ing ex pressions and communica tions Editor's Note Rubicon, a We are so very proud of small river in Northern Ita him and his committment ly rising just north of San Marion and flowing 15 to the service of mankind Stephen was quoted by a miles northeast to the news reporter as having A d riatic Sea Caesar's said, “ When you’ve had a crossing it with his arm y in baby die in your arms 49 B C. constituted an il because you couldn't get to legal entry into Italy and a rehydra tion center quick thereby initiated Civil War. ly enough, when you’ve “ To cross or pass the Rubicon is to embark on an seen real death and real starvation up close then it undertaking from which becomes personal. You one cannot turn back " The Post gratefully acknowledges essays and written opinions from readers to appear on this page—separate from the unbiased news reports on other pages of this newspaper. Your opinions generally will be printed as letters to the editor, while ours generally will appear as editorials. Occasionally, we are able to print guest editorials. We attempt to print all signed letters of good taste, legible form and reasonable length. Our deadline is noon on Tuesdays. Personally speaking: Poet jousts with mouse in his house The hasty rustlings in the kit chen were »low to pique my curiosity Alone in the evening, reading an old Raym ond C handler favorite, I ’d hear a Uny comma tion among the sacks of empties, Being a bit fragile in the bravery department. 1 cbdnt investigate I rationalized It away as the shif ting of cans Later, I noticed tiny calling cards left here and there and decided nature was in the process of attacking my moroaeneas over the loaa of my parakeet by sup^ plying a new diversion A mouse moved in with me It reminded me of something from my days in school, groaning th ro ug h E n g lis h lite r a tu r e courses just so I could sit by Kathy Barry. Robert Burna, feeling a bit of Scottish guilt after turning up a mouse in her neat with his plow, wrote. “ Wee. sleekit. cow'rin*. tim rous beastie./ O, what a panic’s in thy breastie*/ Thou need na start awa sae hasty,/ WI’ tuckering brattle! / 1 wad be taith to rtn an’ chase thee/ Wt* m u rd n ng pottle'" I remembered those lines with my fingers crossed Myself. I wed na be taith to rtn an' chase thee by DAN DILLON For weeks our only contacts were the furtive rustlings in the kitlhen I'd sneak it., hoping to sight my new roomie, but always the shaking in the sacks would stop (d id n ’t want to paw through the cans My goodness, there might have been a mouse in there The first time I caught sight of the wily critter I was in a com promising position, so to speak, but I can attest that the surprise provided a laxative that is at least the equivalent of prunes That's not to say I was frighten ed by that little bunch of fur the size of a cotton ball Au contraire In Eugene. I earned quite a reputation as a mouser We lived in a wonderful pre fab tract borne adjacent to a wonder ful field of weeds Its colony of ’ Mus muaculi” sought our abode as their harbor in every storm, whether there was a storm or not, Well, this bwana once captured two in the space of 10 minutes. Even when the trap line paid its dividends while I was out. it was my duty to remove the tiny corp se and reset the trap My room mates were squeamish about such goings-on I'd use Porfo's rubber gloves when I emptied the traps so I wouldn't catch any dreaded mouse diseases I never stopped to think if our dishes had the same concern I accepted it as my duty, being the Junior member in the partner ship I also accepted it because it totally negated any possibility of pursuing the alternative Cats. Just typing the word plants the seed of a horrendous sneeze in the back of my nose Dutifully, then, I purchased new traps without malice to do bottle with this latest intruder 1 just don't need the excitement when I'm in the water closet I baited them with a nice cheese spread that has been in my refrigerator since who knows when, strategically placed them in locations I won't divulge (who knows if mice can read?) an! waiter' Sure enough The next morning a trap was lying upside down in the middle of the kitchen floor One night, one mouse “ Don’t mess with this bwana.” I thought to myself as I picked up the trap. “ But Mousie, thou art no thy lane,/ In proving foresight may be vain: / The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft a-gley/ An’ lea'e us nought but grief an’ pain,/ For promised Joy.” My best-laid scheme gang’d a-gley an’ left me nought but grief an' pain. The little sucker had sprung the trap, taken the cheese and was probably waiting for me to admit defeat But rather than retreat to more nightmares of mice running across my face while 1 sleep, I'll attack again headlong Into the battle I wage to live alone. Only with victory will I have Bums’ “promised Joy.”
