THE BATTALION
MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1980
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hallenge to stripmining
egulation to be reviewed
Tax Freedom Day set
this year for May 11
United Press International
ROANOKE, Va. — The U.S. Sup-
me Court will decide the merits of
la. Virginia challenge to federal strip
mining regulations that could affect
[the shape and prosperity of the na
tion's coal industry for generations to
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Environmentalists maintain the
regulations are needed to prevent
mt it is necessary,”! further desecration of the earth. But
liel, chairman ofi| strip mine operators who challenged
the law say it amounts to overregula
tion of private industry.
Former Green Bay Packers foot
le the strike issuetoi ball player Carroll Dale, now a strip
he floor of the Leg*mine operator in Wise, Va., said,
I’m very much a believer in free
mterprise. Of course being in a sport
>ects of the prop® like football where you had rules to
;oby, I believe in rules, but if you’re
iverregulated in football or anything
Ise, you can t play the game.
Supporters contend the Surface
dining Control and Reclamation Act
igned by President Carter in 1977
Protects the environment from the
avages of irresponsible strip miners.
The detailed regulations, which
ecame fully effective in January
979, require mine operators to res
tore mountains to their approximate
iginal contour and allow federal in-
pectors to shut down mines for
lolations.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Economists
from Tax Foundation Inc., a nonpro
fit research and public education
organization, have calculated that
Tax Freedom Day will fall on May 11
this year.
This is the date the average work
er’s taxes would be paid if all earn
ings from Jan. 1 went directly to
satisfy obligations to federal, state
and local governments.
Last year the group estimated
May 8 as Tax Freedom Day, and in
1978 it was May 6.
The foundation said total taxes are
estimated at $820 billion this year,
up from $738 billion in 1979. The
share of the average paycheck
claimed by taxes will rise from 34.7
percent to 35.8 percent, the founda
tion said.
“Over the years, tax payments
have gradually increased more than
incomes, and Tax Freedom Day has
come later each year,” a spokesman
for the foundation said.
“From 1930 to 1970, for example,
Tax Freedom Day advanced from
Feb. 13 to April 30. In the first half of
the 1970s, however, taxes generally
rose proportionately to earnings,
with the result that by 1975 Tax
Freedom Day was still computed as
April 30. That lull has faded in the
last five years, with the extension of
the day to May 11 for 1980. ”
On a daily basis, the foundation
estimated that the average American
spends two hours and 52 minutes of
an eight-hour work day earning
enough money to pay taxes.
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RICHMOND, Va. — As many as
10,000 mental patients in 30 states
ere involuntarily sterilized in this
ntury in an attempt to rid society of
efenseless incompetents,” a news-
[aper has reported.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch
EUid in a copyrighted story Sunday
Wiat figures showed Virginia was a
Trading practitioner of eli^Oifie stef^
)pen ThuiS. till!|izatiori for about 50 years, and
: ftgressively pursued the practice
mported coffeci jjongafter court rulings or public out-
41 vanttiM |kg e f orcec j dozens of other states to
feas-bulk & ba. abandon the operations.
over 150 varieties I story was the latest in the
[unchies Bmes-Dispatch s series of investiga-
European k domes f| ons j n t 0 inas s sterilizations, which
■iq newspaper said were an experi-
Benit that amounted to Tittle more
fian a withering assault on a nation’s
defenseless incompetents in the
Bine of science. ”
ii« The newspaper earlier reported
■at sterilization abuse in Virginia
-mental institutions during a half-
Tntury amounted to more than
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Officials of the Virginia Chapter of
the American Civil Liberties Union
said at the time of the first disclo
sures they would seek to take the
state to court if they could find a
patient willing to sue.
Sunday, ACLU officials said they
are preparing to take legal action
against Virginia. “The suit is still far
from being ready to be filed,” said
Jiidy* GoIclberjg, an ACLU lobbyist.
She said 13 persons who were steril
ized have asked the ACLU to investi
gate their cases.
Other state ACLU officials said
the group’s national office has agreed
to help, without charge, with any
legal challenges.
Figures obtained from the Social
Welfare History Archives at the Uni
versity of Minnesota and other
sources show that by 1963, almost
64,000 sterilizations had been per
formed on patients at state hospitals
for the mentally ill or mentally defi
cient in 30 states, the Times-
Dispatch said.
National totals apparently were no
longer kept after 1963, but figures
compiled from states strongly sug
gest the total may now have reached
70,000, the newspaper said.
The newspaper said many of the
sterilizations were conducted under
the now-discredited theory that
almost all mental illness is hereditary
and could be controlled by sterilizing
the mentally ill.
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