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Gramm: Balanced budget by 82
THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1979
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By SCOTT PENDLETON
Battalion Staff
America can balance its budget
thout cutting any federal pro-
ams.
A startled audience beard Rep.
lil Gramm, D-Texas, add that idea
his familiar balanced budget dis-
urse at the Chamber of Commerce
mual banquet Tuesday night.
orMhan 1,000 of the community’s
isiness leaders and their spouses
ronged the new Brazos Center,
lere the banquet was held, to hear
e College Station congressman
■
“If we can slow down the rate of
growth of federal spending this year
and next year and the year after to
5.5 percent per annum we could bal
ance the budget by the end of 1982
without cutting a single federal pro
gram,” the congressman said.
Limiting federal spending to a 5.5
percent annual increase would allow
tax revenues to catch up with spend
ing, despite a projected $29 billion
deficit next year. Inflation increases
government revenues by “floating”
taxpayers into higher tax brackets,
Gramm said.
“Because of the current 8.8 per
cent inflation rate, federal taxes next
year are going to grow by $60 billion
without any increase in tax rates.
And the projected level for the next
year if our current level of economic
expansion continues is a whopping
$75 billion growth in federal tax col
lections,” he said.
The balanced budget and 5.5 per
cent limit will end deficit spending,
which Gramm called a major cause of
the increasing inflation rate.
“I believe that this Congress is
going to address the problem of gov
ernment deficit spending. I’m not
saying it’s going to do so in a lasting
effect such as a balanced budget
amendment to the Constitution,”
Gramm said.
Gramm said some people think
that 5.5 percent growth in spending
is too little to meet the needs of those
who depend on federal funds. “And
that may be so. But it seems to me
that it’s important to look at the prob
lem in perspective.
“The after-tax income of the aver
age American worker in the last dec
ade has only' grown at about 5.5 per
cent a year. So the program I’m talk
ing about is a program to simply ask
the federal government to live
within the same kind of restraints as
mon or no union r
ployees to decide
By REGINA MOEHLMAN
Battalion reporter
embers of the Office and Professional Employees International
hi reached an out-of-court agreement Tuesday with an attorney for
^gency Records Control on which ARC employees would be
le to vote in a union election. An official of the National Labor
)ns Board was present at the meeting held in the Brazos County
house.
e point was to give as many employees as possible the opportu-
to vote,” said John Smither, attorney for ARC. The employees will
> on whether or not to join the union.
think they (ARC) have been very cooperative,” said Jack
gford, international representative for the union. Langford said he
leased with the meeting’s results.
[e NLRB agreement signed by both representatives states that
office clerical employees including computer operators, key
operators, intrex operators, printer operators, data control
, shipping clerks, mail clerks, accounting clerks,general clerks,
taries, forms and supply clerks, programmers, maintenance ern
es, customer service clerks,” would be eligible to vote,
luded from voting are “All other employees ... at other office
ions; guards, watchmen, managers, professional and supervisory
ioyees as defined by the (Taft-Hartley) Act,” the agreement said,
exclusions must be agreed upon separately,
th the exclusions Langford estimated that between 205 and 210
yees would be eligible to vote. Langford said he felt very confi-
of winning the election.
nither, who estimated as many as 225 would be able to vote, said
j also felt confident.
Ve think the employees understand the importance of it (the
bn). They know what is in their best interest and they will decide
ie said.
e election, which will be held at the ARC company headquarters
ie East bypass, is tentavively set for April 6, pending official
-mation by the NLRB.
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those faced by the average citizens.
In my mind that’s a perfectly rational
request. ”
Gramm pointed out that the aver
age worker’s paycheck, due to infla
tion and taxes, is no better off than in
1967.
“We have never in the whole his
tory of our nation had a decade
where the worker, the person who is
pulling the wagon in which we all
ride, has found himself in terms of
what he can actually command in the
marketplace no better off than he
was a decade before,” he said.
“Two hundred years ago our
founding fathers were fighting a war
protesting taxation without repre
sentation. But I think it’s clear in
retrospect that they never
envisioned what taxation with repre
sentation was really going to be like. ”
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