The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 90, Ed. 1 Monday, February 13, 1995 Page: 4 of 12
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Our congratulations to the 10 local students from the YMCA-sponsored j ■
Youth in Government program at Judge Tony Polumbo's Teen Court who
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The Baytown Sun is published Monday through Friday and Sunday at
1301 Memorial Drive in Baytown.
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Baytown Chapter of League of
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s the League of.Women Voters celebrates its 75th anniversary
nationally, we take a few minutes to recognize the Baytown
Chapter of the League.
The League of Women Voters is a non-partisan organization whose ;
purpose is to promote political responsibility through informed and
active participation ofcitizens in government. We know of few groups
in Baytown, or anywhere else for that matter, who hold to their charge
as well as the local chapter of the League of Women Voters.
The League sponsors candidate forurhs before all local elections and
prints a voters guide before all state and national elections. The League
promotes voter registration and serves as the single best source for
information on the electoral process.
(The list of elected officials which runs regularly on this page is the' ■
. work of the Baytown Chapter of the League of Women Voters.) •
The League was formed in 1920 as the 19th Amendment to the Con-
stitution was ratified, giving millions of women the right to vote.
Today, it continues to inform voters, women and men, about their right
to vote and encourages everyone to take part in the process.
The League does not support particular parties or candidates, but
does take positions oh issues after study.
We recognize the League ofWonten Voters of Baytown on their
organization’s 75th anniversary and wish them continued success as
■ they work toward their centennial year.
You do much to make ours a better community.
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The plain truth about Dick Armey’s flat tax
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' orget Bill Clinton. Forget Phil
Gramm.'Forget Robert Dole and
Newt Gingrich. Forget Lamar
Alexander, whom I kind of like, and for-
get even William Weld, whom I like a lot.
I say Dick Armey for president,
I know, the House majority leader is
very conservative, and my salutary words
for the amiable Republican from the Dal-
las suburbs will surely disorient a few of
the right-wing yoyos out there who regu-
lady accuse me of being a closet liberal.
To be honest, there are things about
< i Dick Armey that disturb me. He can be
nasty, although he is quick with an apolo-
gy. He is so anti-government that he once
argued for the abolition of Social Securi-
ty, although he now says he wouldn’t
touch it with a fully grounded pole.
But what Anney has in abundance is a
keen intellect and some'bold ideas for
solving the nation’s fiscal'problems.
One of them is a flat-rate income tax
system, a concept that regular readers.
will recognize as one I have touted many
times over the past six years. It would .
work like this:
Every taxpayer would be granted a
generous personal allowance and addi-
tional ones for dependents. All remaining
wages, salaries and pensions would be
taxed at a flat rate—pick your percent-
age-r-with no deductions for anything. A
business tax at the same rate, after deduc-
tions for legitimate expenses, would
• cover all the rest of the income produced
in the nation.
The advantages of such a system are so
our money was going and we wouldn’t
have to worry about it being given away *
in cleverly hidden and hard-to-compre-
hend tax favors.
■ The economy would finally be free ,
| of tax-break indv red warps, and capital
| would flow where natural forces direct it.
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■ Just as economic engineering would:::
be extinct, so would social engineering.
We could enjoy our God-given right to ■->
expend our own money as we wish and ^
extensive that I haven’t the space to men-
tion them all. But just for starters:
I Because of the personal allowances, n°1 have spending decisions forced upon
the poor would be protected and the sys- us by stupid tax laws. +
tern would be rendered mildly progres- Armey’s plan calls for an initial 20 per-K
sive. The more money you earn, the more cent rate which would drop to 17 percent..
as the newly stimulated economy grew
and tax revenues increased to cover
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taxes you pay.
■ Every citizen would pay the same
rate and the tax system would be fair at
last! No more loopholes for the rich.
■ It would be simple, so mind-bog-
glingly simple that you could compute
your taxes on your lunch break and file
them on a 10-line form the size of a post- out He would also exemPl interest> divi‘
dends and capital gains as a way of Z
I Tens of thousands of tax accountants inducing savings. I ve always opposed
that notion as a break for the rich, but I
am lately beginning to see the wisdom of
Today in histoiy...
deficits. He would allow exemptions of „
$13,100 for each taxpayer and $5,300 for-
each dependent. I personally-think his ;
rate is too low and his allowances too
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high, but those are details to be worked
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Today is Monday, Feb. 13, the 44th day of 1995. There are 321 days left in
.; the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
’ Sixty years ago, on Feb. 13, 1935, a juiy in Flemington, N.J., found Bruno
. x Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-death of the
infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbeighf-Hauptmann was later executed.
On this date: •
i In 1542, the fifth wife of England’s King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard,
was executed for adultery. .
'; In 1633, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before
; • the Inquisition.
;• In 1635, the oldest public school'in the United States, the Boston Public
Latin School, was founded: -
; -In 1795,200 years ago, the University of North Carolina became the first
: ■ U.S. state university to open its doors to students.
In 1914, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers,
. I known as ASCAP, was founded in New York.
In 1920, the League of Nations recognized the perpetual neutrality of
Switzerland. • i '•
In 1945,50 years ago, during World War II, the Soviets captured Budapest,
;• Hungary, from the Germans.
In 1945, Allied planes began bombing the German city of Dresden.
■■■K In 1960, France exploded its first atomic bomb, in the Sahara Desert.
V In 1984, Konstantin Chernenko was chosen to be general secretary of the
' Soviet Communist Party’s Central Committee, succeeding the late Yuri
Andropov. •
.’: Ten.years ago: President Reagan and King Fahd of Saudi Arabia concluded
two days of meetings by issuing a communique saying a stable Middle East
peace had to provide security “for all states in the area” and recognize the
rights of die Palestinian people.
Five years ago: The United States and its European allies forged agreement
with .the Soviet Union and East Germany during an “open skies” conference
in Ottawa on a two-stage formula to reunite Germany.
One year ago; At the Winter Olympic Gam^s in Lillehammer, Norway,
American Tommy Moe won the men’s downhill, defeating local hero Kjetil
Andre Aamodt by four one-hundredths of a second.
I Today’s Birthdays: Singer Eileen Farrell is 75. Former test pilot Charles E.
* “Chuck” Yeager is 72. Actress Kim Novak is 62. Actor Gporge Segal is 61.
5 Actor Oliver Reed is 57. Actor Bb Svenson is 54. Actress Carol Lynley is 53.
I Actress Stockard Charming is 51. Singer Peter Tork is 51. Actor David
Naughton is 44. • .
Thought for Today: “The world has no sympathy with any but positive
i griefs; it will pity you for what you lose, but never for what you lack.” —
■j Anne Sophie Swetchine, Russian-French author (1782-1857).
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and lawyers would be forced into more
productive toil.
■ Members of Congress, who spend
half their time diddling with tax laws and 1 would suggest two more things: (1) *
trying to figure new and devilish ways to KeeP the tax rate at 20 percent even after*'
reward their fatcat pals with tax breaks, the budget is balanced and use the excess
could wrap up their work around the revenue to pay down the national debt,
’Fourth of July and go home for the rest of (2) once the flat tax becomes law,
make it a capital offense to tinker with it.
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the year. You want a real benefit? Con-
Get rested, tanned and ready, and run,
Dick, run.
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■ We ordinary folk would be able to
understand the budget process much bet-
ter because we could clearly see where
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Texas Elected Officials
||H| COUNTY JUDGE
Hlj ffftB • Robert Eckels (R)
UGUCO 755-6666
PRECINCT 2 COUNTY COMMISSIONER
JimFonteno(D)
755-6220
Baytown —427-7311
PRECINCT 3 JUSTICE OF THE PEACE -
Place 1 —Mike Parrott (D)
450-2409
Place 2—Tony Polumbo (D)
427-7449
PRECINCT 3, PUCE 2 CONSTABLE
James Douglas (D)
427-4791
CHAMBERS COUNTY SHERIFF
P. Burkhalter (D) .
1-800-645-5047
DISTRICT 127 REPRESENTATIVE
Joe Crabb (R-1996)
2240 N. Park Drive, Suite 101
Kingwood, TX 77339
(512) 463-0520
(713)422-2233 ' ’
DISTRICT 128 REPRESENTATIVE
FredBosse(D-1996)
855-A Uvalde Rd.
Houston, TX 77015
•(512)463-0660
(713) 453-6336
DISTRICT 144 REPRESENTATIVE
Robert Taiton (R-1996)
1900 Strawberry, Suite G
Pasadena, TX 77502 .
(512) 463-0460
(713)472-0539
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DISTRICT ATTORNEY
John B Holmes (R)
755-5800
COUNTY CLERK
• B.F. Kaufman (R)
755-6405
COUNTY TREASURER
• ■ . Don Sumners (R)
755-5120
COUNTY ATTORNEY
Mike Driscoll (D)
755-5101
SHERIFF
Johnny Klevenhagen (R)
221-6000
TAX COLLECTOR
CarlS. Smith (D)
224-1919
Baytown—422-6817
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 90, Ed. 1 Monday, February 13, 1995, newspaper, February 13, 1995; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1158106/m1/4/?q=Homecoming+queen+1966+North+Texas+State+University: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.