Tax structures aid
inequities to poor
By ‘ Vernon 8 . Joulun. J r .
PortUnd/observer Thursday, June 28, 1972 nige 3
Social reform, not black solutions
By Bayard Rustln
"
The National Association of
black orphans of any possibi
solely or even largely to ra
(Math and taxes are (lie two
Black Social Workers has re
lity of tta benefits of a family
f
hen
(ta
re
are
tie
loof>-
cism, txit to an economic sys
elements of human life that
throwing farm workers out of
cently Issued a policy state
environment.
holes. Salaried working peo
tem already weighted to those
work, they get tax credits for
a®«»' to 1» permanent. Not
ment which ctxjid have d etri
Mosf reasonable shop in »own
But the Issue is Impoitant
ple can’ t escape taxes their
with wealth and power. And
depreciation while the poor
much can he done about the
mental Implications for blsck
on
another
level
for
It
reflects,
b
e
tte
r-o
tf
neighbors
skip.
can’ t even get decent welfare
poverty, let us not forget. Is
firs t, ta t the systems of taxa
Americans and for allw h o aie
bi a fa irly dramatic manner'
Business and professional ex-
color blind; It pursues tta Ap
allotments.
tion can be altered to help
concerned with social pro
• growing mood among black
jxnisoi ind onto i t«i In irig bpb
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2 6 0 9 N Vancouver Ave
gress.
palachian farm er as relent
bi lng about a more equitable
So tta way the system works
professionals to define tta
«leduc tibie. Homeowners de
lessly as the Alabama share
Is to create a welfare s u te fo r
society. The way it stands
The statement, made In the
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problems of the black poor as
duct mortgage Interest pay
the rich. F o r all tho talk about
cropper, and tta new Immi
form of a resolution at (he or
now. (ta tax system Is a con
somehow separate and dis
ments
and
property
taxes
tat
high welfare costs arsi social
grant to this country.
siderable part of tho structure
ganization's national conven
tinguishable from those ills
apartment renters are denied
of Inequality in American I He.
Can an all-black organiza
expenditures, far more money
tion, denounced the placement
which afflict tta rest of soci
that escape-hatch. Although
flows from the taxes of poor
tion representing a m inority
And that Inequality could get
of black orphans with white
ety's
Impoverished
and
to
seek
dieit landlord deducts m ort
and m oderate-Incom e fam
within a profession contribute
a lot worse If something like
fam ilies for elttaradoption oi
solutions based on race,rath
gage costs and property taxes
ilies into the coffers of tta
significantly to tta solution of
the . proposed ••value added
foster care, calling tta prac
er than economic or social re
filini
his
taxes,
his
tenants
w ell-off.
tax” ever goes Into effect.
so massive a problem? Obvi
tice " a growing threat to the
form.
As
If
tta
problems
of
can't deduct that part of tlielr
ously they cannot. T ta ird a n -
That’ s why we are hearing
I his would place a lax on man
preservation of the black fam
drug
addiction, unemploy
rent which goes to paying those
ily .”
ger, however. Is that tta en
• b o u t ’ ’ ta x -re v o lts ” and
ufactured products at each
costs.
ment, Illegitim acy anddlsease
ergies and Idealism of their
growing anger among citizens
I do not intend co dwell at
»tage of thelrdevelopment - In
could be solved If everyone
Wealthy
Investors profit
members will be channeled
who ate no longer content to
length on the practical conse
e ffe 't. a national sales tax
turned white overnight.
from diesounfslrtsxsrrange-
into endeavors ultimately fu
pay the same rates that rich
since It would be passe«} on to
quences of such a position. It
I
his
philosophy
has
In
turn
ments. Purchaseis of muni
tile and unnecessary.
die consumer.
people, who can afford more,
Is necessary to comment only
led
to
the
formation
of
sepa
cipal bonds don’ t pay any taxes
pay. Reforming the tax system
Nor can tta black profes
This la what Is known as a
Hist tta adoption of this policy
rate black organizations In a
at all on the ir dividends, a sit
Is a necessary first step to re
by child welfare agencies
sional combat racism if ta Is
regressive tax - a tax that ev
growing
list
of
professions
-
uation which costs I lie federal
forming our unequal society.
isolated from those Institu
would deprive thousands of
erybody pays at the same rate.
teachers, policemen, report
government more (tan $2 b il
tions where racism poses a
Most of the taxes we pay are
lion In lost raxes last year,
ers and social workers to
challenge. There Is no sense
regressive taxes In that they
name just a few as well as
money that had to be made up
In black teachers passing
ate not |>egged to Income. In
black caucuses within trade
in higher rales for (he resi of
resolutions and con.pl a ining to
come taxes that tax lower In
unions.
us. Profits from the sale of
each o tter about tta oppres
comes at lower rates and pro
I
ta
leaders
of
these
organ
stock are taxed at 25 per cent
sive and racist nature of
gress up the scale to the point
izations are often talented and
Instead of their ordinary In
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The Friendliest ] • “ x xSf,
American schools just as
where hlgtet-Incom e people
ambitious.
They
a
re
disturbed
• tn»a a »'»
‘ ” 'd 4 ” •
come tax rate, which la often
there
is
no
sense
in
white
pay higher tax rates help
Stores In Townj
by tta pace of black progress
much hlglier. why should In
teachers passing resolutions
etjuallze the distribution of
• ««-a .. s t
. J’'/, i
o-
generally, tat (hey are equally
Since 1908
come derived
from stock
and saying they cannot teach
dollars available to fam ilies
disturbed about their own pro
M fM B fS o r UNITED GROCERS
speculation be treated more
black
children
because
of
In the society. Until our en
fessional status. They have
favorably than lncomedertved
their home life and society.
T h irty -fiv e per cent of the
tire tax structure becomes
enough to sustain them, and in
from salary?
incorrectly, I believe, mistak
nation’ s Black work force be
Teachers must join together
fa r more progressive than it
addition,
"discouraged
work
en
their
ambitions
for
tta
Recent figures released by
tween the ages of 16 and 64 is
to make the educational sys
la. moderate-income fam ilies
needs
of
tta
Negro
masses.
ers”
-
a
category
that
Is
reg
the Internal Revenue Service
<xit of work In ghettos across
tem work for white and black
w ill bear an excessive burden
I he result Is to project solu
ularly separated out of unem
reveals that many rich people
and poor children - they should
the country and existing na
of the costs of running tlie
tions limited to a given disci
still pay less income tax than
ployment data by tta govern
not be spending their tune
country.
tional manpower policy Is In
ment.
pline
rather
than
an
overhaul
do poor people. Some 18,000
fighting each other.
adequate to help them, said U r.
The m ajority of local (axes
ing of the economic system.
Henderson said tta latter
wealthy Individuals paid an av-
Vivian Henderson, Black eco
Separatist
organizations
are regressive. A State or
group - estimated at one to ev
They perceive, correctly,
o ,age of only four per cent of
are further weakened by their
nomist and President ofCisrk
City with a sales tax doesn't
that
society
has
failed
and
is
ery
four
“
unemployed’
*
work-
tlielr incomes In Income tax.
College.
need to adopt unrealistic and
scale that tax to Income. Ev
falling tta black child despite
ers by the government - are
while mote than 3,000 of them
U r. Henderson's remarks
sometimes irresponsible pub
erybody pays (he same five or
anti-discnmlnatlon laws and
''the people who never get
showed a loss for tax pur poses
lic positions in order to justi
came during a session of the
six p e r c e n t a g e
of th e
federal programs. But the
counted, who have given up
while their tax-froe Income
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fy their existence. This often
National Urban League's 4th
cost of the taxed Item. This
crucial question for all black
hope, who d rift onto welfare
amounted to almost $200 m il
takes the form of unsound c r i
Annual Labor Education Ad
means that poor people pay a
people is why has society
lion.
rolls or are teenagers with no
ticism of their own profession,
vancement Program (LEA P)
much hlglier percentage of
39 4 0 N. W illiam s Ave. (Ph. 2 8 4 -0 5 5 5 ,
failed? And is it only black
previous work experience, and
And that’ s Just the begin
as, I believe, is thecaseofthe
Conference.
their Incomes In taxes thando
children with whom society
who w ill never Join tta labor
ning. We haven't even I egun
adoption resolution. It is not
Henderson explained that
Bie rich, since a much higher
lias dealt harshly?
force under such circum
to look Into the vast network of
interracial adoptions which
Federal unemployment statis
part of their sm aller Incomes
stances.”
would suggest that soci
Albs kites to Individuals and
threaten tta stability of the
tics of eleven per cent Black
goes for the putchase of es
ety s shortcomings a re not the
corpoiatlons that heneflt those
black family but rather tta ab
unemployment Include only
sentials. The federal social
Henderson termed tta total
result of an inherent, deeply-
who need help least. While
surdities of our welfare sys
those who are actively seeking
eecui Ity tax Is also regressive
picture
"dism
al
and
sad,”
and
imbedded
and
oppressive
ra
black farm w orkersated rlven
Jobs and can’t find them, tat
tem and a black unemployment
since It is a flat rate on He
»•Id, ” 1 do not see tta situa
cism, although prejudice and
off the land or laborfor semi-
this 35 per cent figure also In
rate in excess of 10 per cent.
first 1 9,000 of Income. So peo
tion getting any better because
discrimination are still im
starvatlon
wages, wealthy
It is ironic that black pro
cluded one million Black male
ple who make more than that
of
tta
employment
policy
of
portant problems to over
farm corporations reap huge
fessionals, who once felt the
hesds of households who are
don’t pay the tax on their ex
our national leadership. On
come. But poverty, and all the
sums from the government and
keen cutting edge of separa
forced to take seasonal
cess Income.
the other hand, I see It getting
evils attached to it, is not due
then, when they mechanize.
tism, should now consider
part-tim e work (tat is not
worse.”
separatism as a legitimate al
ternative in the struggle fo r
equality. The exclusionary
policies of the American Med
ical Association and other so
By Jesse Jackson
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cieties haddevastatingpractl-
cal consequences for black
Angela Da via has heen re
black agenda.
Men of the
posed to 70 p ercen t of those
professionals; black doctors,
leased and all of us c«n walk
their consideration such mes
c a l i b e r of C a rl S t o k e s ,
Emancipation Proclam ation--
25 years and older. Again,
for example, were denied the
a little prouder because of
o n e s as ta shall Judge neces
Richard Hatcher and Arthur
the Emancipation was a W ar
I repeat. It’ s important to
right to practice in the best
t a r endurance and examplel
sary
and
expedient
.
.
.
”
Fletcher are of Presidential
measure.
The massive In
uislerstand what you are vot
hospitals, deprived of a po
The nation’s Presidential
It further notes that " . . .
tim ber — now!
^eodtus (Ted) Sanders, experienced chef, invites you
novations of Franklin Delano
ing for In a Presklentlalelec
licy-m aking voice, and iso
prim aries are nowwlthlndaya
convene (o r call Into session)
to become part of the restaurant - profit sharing, fran-
As we approach tta 1972
Roosevelt disclosed this In
tion.
lated
from
the
latest
currents
of coming to a close.
both Houses,oreitherofthem ,
To
election It needs to be sakl
? ° nal locanons P‘«»ned). experienced help
that when the courts refused
F irs t, tta P reskient. thtxigh
some extent they are ___
In research and experimenta
inis
and in case of disagreement
over and over, that your re
ntea- Make an appointment to talk it over.
to cooperate with Congress,
tion.
a
man,
directs
hla
office
from
named since for the most pan
between
them
with
respect
to
fusal or just plain lacka
he called upon his power of
tta perspective of an Institu
they are a massive ro lle r
It is true that there have
the time of adjournment, ta
daisical attitude about voting
appointment
to threaten pack
tion
and
In
fact.
Is
an
Institu
been many separate, black
derby with one purpoi
in
may
adjourn
them
to
such
la a vote too, for your own
ing the Supreme Court.
It
tion not only In this nation
mind, namely the collection
professional s o c i e t i e s in
time a s ta shall thlnkproper."
eventual political eradication.
tat In tta world.
was „then that the "N ine Old
of delegate votes at one or
Am erica, but It w asdiscrim l-
The article also notes toward
Yet in 1968, fewer people
Men” caught on and retire
Theodore Roosevelt, a man
tta other major party con
nation which compelled blacks
It’ s conclusion that ” . . . he
voted than In 1900 In terms of
ments were soon the order
credited by P ro f. Beale at
to form these organizations.
ventions. The prize w ill In
(tta
President)
shall
take
care
percentages:
of tta day.
Within months
Wisconsin
University with
Never were they looked on as
clude a number of (hose now
that the Laws be faithfully
At least 12 m illion people
Roosevelt was able to shove
having b r o k e n Am erica’ s
an effective vehicle for tta ad
In tta race, tat It la no small
executed, and shall commis
were registered ta t were not
through many of his New Deal
Isolation, perceived this vety
o r Insignificant trophy.
It
vancement
of tta b la c k
sion all the Officers of the
Interested In voting; 10 m il
measures.
clearly, h was Teddy Roose
masses, for their members
1» tta nomination for tta
United States.”
lion could have registered tat
Again, at a time when It
velt who called tta American
Presklency
of the United
had too personal and painful a
In other words die President
did not choose to; 7 million
was
Impossible to pass C ivil
p r e s id e n c y ,
" a bloody
States.
recollection of tta telling ef
not only has the power of Ap
were sick;
5 m illion were
pulpit . . .” .
Rights legislation because of
fects of separatism.
A year ago, I wrote that
pointment.
but
considerable
prevented from voting by
the makeup of critic al Con
Constitution confers broad
black people should be In
Certainly today’ s black pro
legislative powers are im
residence re tire m e n ts . In
powers upon tta president:
gressional
C o m m itte e s ,
fessional is not confronted
vesting in a candidate of their
plied by the ability to re
1900, 75 per cent of tta
Roosevelt, threatened with a’
A rticle II, of tta U.S. Con
with tta severe handicaps with
uwn for the office of P re s l-
commend a legislative pro
eligible voters cast ballots
major march followed by
stitution notes that ’’ The exe
«lent. For many, this sounds
which his latter day colleague
gram
,
to
call
special
sessions
What la most disappointing It
strikes and the need to meet
cutive Power (Capitol " P " )
was forced to deal. But should
preposterous and for others
of the legislature, and in fact
whai recent prim ary election
the exigencies of tta w ar ef
shall be vested In a President
he withdraw from tta main
It was an Idea whose time
to
be
able
to
Adjourn
the
statistics (ell us about the
fort,
used
his Executive
of tta United States of Am eri
had not quite arrived . . . tat
stream of his profession to
Congress
on
extraordinary
new voters. Namely that only
ca. He shall hold hla Office
Powers to w rite Executive
for all of ua It must become
pursue an elusive “ black" an
occasions.
M oreover, v ir
SO per cent of the eligible»
Order 8808 which was the
«luring the Term of four
• goal of top priority on tta
swer to society’ s ills hecould
tually every office holding a
21 to 24 years vote, as op-
first FEPC law. Thanks to
y»ars . . ,
A rtic le II, sec
find himself as Isolated am) in
commission, holds that com
A . Philip Randolphwhounder
tion 2 grants him the power
effective as those oppressed
mission by reason of the
stood this power very clearly,
as Commander in Chief oi
by outright exclusion.
authority and power of the
Harry Truman desegregated
armed services and of the
There are impoi tant things
Presidency . . . This is pre
the A rm y, Washington, D.C.
m ilitia of the several states
to be said about the black ex
cisely the reason the P re si
public accommodations, and'
(tta National Guard).
perience in education, wel
dency is said to have the
This article also grants
a great amount of government
fare, law enforcement, or
quality
of majesty . . . the
n r n L ? ™ 0,eSS'° nal s,andards '<>' ^o s e who demand uncom-
employment using tta Exe
him the power to "grant re
whatever. But that which is
authority conferred upon the
Y o u M ,hrCCH « °n crattsma"sh'P and optical superiority
cutive O rder.
prieves and pardons for of
unique about the black experi
tou II feel the difference as the sculptured curve nt ‘ ho h n X
office is indeed majestic in
fenses against tta United
th?hrhi$ e7 ° rtleSS,y ' n your hands You’11 see th * difference
ence must, if It is to have an
character.
Skillful use of Presidential
States,
except in cases of
h e V o t ’ew
’ dfstam'Th 8et ShaJ ply def,ned ,hrou«h°u t the
effect on social policy, be a
You see, it was Lyndon
power enabled Lyndon John
Impeachment.” He Is given
,
°
,.v
ew
distant obiects and action seem so close vou'n
pert
of
the
common
arena
and
Johnson’ s incredible skill In
son to use the C arrot and
r a « J hey are ° nly ,nches away' Yet th« e famous make s X
the power to make treaties
not hidden away from public
making the constitution work
the yard stick to get legis
Lidav
hm ,0,? ered below ,ac,ory ''S’ price in Europe' OMer
by and with tta advice and
view.
for him . . . in using the
lation. That Is, his authority
are ..h e A tW° Pa' rS t0 each buyer When Present supplies
consent of the Senate, pro
Our
particular
knowledge
powers " In between the lines”
to authorize governmental
v®
usted prices will be much higher No CODs please
viding two thlras of those
and experiences mean nothing
which enable«! him to accom
pork barrels (dams, reclam a
Money back in ten days if not fully satisfied
Senators present concur in
by
themselves.
They
gain
re
plish the legislative feats he
tion projects, post offices,
the action.
levance when they are shared
boasted,
of course he was postal appointments, federal
He Is empower«! (again by
with all men and when they
not hurt by his relations with
commissions, c o n t r a c t s ,
and with the advice and con
contribute to «hiring the sick
Everett Dtrksen, the Senate
buildings, judgeships, etc.)
* ^ T Ct? nHally cornPuted optical systems of unexcelled tru
sent of the Senate) to appoint
nesses of tta total society.
M inority le a d e r, and, es
a r d / iX e 'n t e ^ s T a m ^
'° SUP®r Cr,t,Ca' s,a" d
opened many legislative hori
ambassadors, other public
pecially in terms of Social
zons fo r him. As to P re s i-
ministers, consuls. Judges ol
Legislation, the loyalty and
«lentlal Appointments, we have
* m teroaHight lo s s ''" ' SUdaCeS dmber hard COa,ed ,0 prevent
the Supreme Court and all
tremendous acumen of Adam
counted 585 ferlerai positions,
other officers of the United
Clayton Powell. Sixty pieces
requiring no Senate confir
States, “ whose appointments
* s'n^.'Tan^and rh°a7e'enSeS b'°C’' re” eC,ed g'ar® ,rOm " at" '
of social legislation passed
mation in the Chicago area
are not herein otherwise pro
alone.
«luring the Kennedy-Johnson
vided for . . . ”
years came from the adept
*
res,s‘ ant construction - extra strength hinge and
He has the power "to fill
hands of D r . Adam Powell.
P e r X ? n t (; , S
S,n ni,Sal'8nment:
'ndex pns™ are
up all vacancies chat may
While the Constltutionglves
happen during tho Recess of
Congress
" a ll
legislative
the Senate, by granting Com
powers . . . ” it also states
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A number of articles a re pre
w ires, m ix e ... .
prfces
Despite the fact that our
faced by the assertion: ' "Con-
system of Government is a
$3.50 a child par day
gress shall make no law
trlpartate form with branches
Send ONE only. I enclose $4 98
I tare is no such statement
of government functioning in
with reference io the Presi
Send TWO at the bargain price of $9 49
tandem to b a la n c e each
dent.
His powers are ob
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other — A rticle 2, Section 3
t
f
t
P
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One
amt
Only
Store
viously proscribed and defined
Ñame
nixes
that
(he President
Op* » » s m to » 0 0 pm . Daily
by tta trlpartate structure,
" . . . shall from time to lime
Sundava Noon to 4 00 p.m
But over the years these
give to the Congress Infor
Address
powers have increased. Lin
mation about the State of the
coln used his Presidential
Union, and recommend to
City, State. Zip
w ar powers to publish the
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