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Thousands of mis filed claims overwhelm IRS
Michigan autoworkers are revolting against taxes
United Press International
FLINT, Mich. — Thousands of angry auto
workers are claiming up to 99 dependents each or
refusing to file income tax withholding forms at
all in a growing tax revolt the Internal Revenue
Service is finding nearly impossible to stop.
The grass roots movement has spread in and
around auto plants from Flint to Detroit. Most
protesters are employed by General Motors
Corp. and many are white-collar workers.
Leonard Nawrocki, IRS manager of criminal
investigations in Flint, Sunday estimated at least
3,500 workers are falsifying their tax forms or not
filing at all. The number of protesters, he said, is
growing.
“This is the biggest, or at least one of the
biggest, tax protest movements in the country,”
said Nawrocki.
Some workers, he said, file a federal withhold
ing form used by low-income workers who don’t
earn enough to pay income taxes. Others claim
enough dependents so that no tax is withheld —
as many as 99 dependents in some cases.
Then, Nawrocki explained, many simply do
not file a return at the end of the year. Others file
an incomplete return or declare themselves
“ministers of their homes’ churches, and say
they’re exempt,’’ he said.
The IRS is threatening to strike back with its
entire legal arsenal, including wage garnish
ments and criminal prosecutions. But Nawrocki
conceded the large number of protesters will
make prosecutions difficult — and the agency is
considering asking for help from Washington.
“That’s the secret — the numbers,” Nawrocki
said. “I don’t think we can prosecute every one of
them."
in Pontiac, said he founded We the People but
denied being an “income tax evader or cheat.”
He said the group is only defending the Constitu
tion.
Several organizations are promoting the anti
tax phenomenon, including a group called We
the People—American Citizens Tribunal, which
operates from a storefront building in Pontiac.
In 1980, We the People had 700 dues-paying
members, officials said.
Dean Hazel, an hourly worker at a CM plant
“If Nawrocki wants to haul our guys into court
he’ll get his ears pinned back,” said Hazel, who
claims the IRS has been losing on “false and
fraudulent W-4 (forms) for years.”
Nawrocki, however, said the groups were
spreading false information and said some of the
material includes anti-Semitic and Nazi pro
paganda.
The IRS is stepping up audits and warning the
protesters they could go to jail. Still, only five
cases have been referred for possible prosecution
and only in one case is the IRS actually recom
mending criminal sanctions.
The protesters argue that reporting income
and paying income taxes violate citizens’ rightsu
several ways, including the right against self
incrimination.
One protester. Jack Ver Wiebe, a lift tnid
operator at a Flint CM plant, claims he has
avoided $3,(MX) in federal income taxes.
“The people are getting ready to revolt, he
said. “That’s why people came to this country,to
get away from taxes. They’re fed up will
bureaucracy and red tape.”
Reagan administration says Cuban arms must stop
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The admi
nistration today released an inch-
thick “white paper” to back up
warnings that it may take direct
action — possibly a blockade
against Cuba — if communist
arms shipments to Salvadoran re
bels are not stopped.
The white paper, “Communist
Interference in El Salvador,” is a
lengthy compilation of docu
ments, including a chronological
account of the communist inter
vention in El Salvador that was
leaked earlier to news media.
It includes documents, photo
graphs and maps detailing finks
between El Salvador’s leftist guer
rillas and communist govern
ments in Europe, Asia and Africa,
as well as Cuba and Nicaragua.
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It was released against the
background of warnings by top
aides to President Reagan that the
United States may take direct ac
tion against Cuba to stop to flow of
arms into El Salvador.
White House counselor Edwin
Meese said Sunday the United
States is prepared to take some
form of direct action against Cuba,
possibly a blockade, unless arms
shipments to rebels in El Salvador
are stopped.
Meese said the United States
will “take whatever measures” are
necessary and will not “rule out
anything” to stop the flow of arms
and assistance to insurgents.
On Saturday, Secretary of State
Alexander Haig was quoted as tell
ing foreign diplomats that “in
some way we have to deal with the
immediate source of the problem
— and that is Cuba.”
The white paper released today
did not include a preface to the
chronology, which was included
in the same document when a
summary was released to the news
media last week.
It said in part that accumulated
evidence “reveals a highly dis
turbing pattern of parallel and
coordinated action by a number of
communist and some radical
countries seeking to impose a
military solution in a small, Third
World nation.”
of the rebels’ supplies.
“I think that’s entirely possible
if the arms shipments do not
cease,” Meese said. “And I think it
is to Cuba’s own self-interest to
halt them right now, and this
transmittal of subversion into
Central America.”
Appearing on ABC’s “Issues
and Answers,” Meese was asked
about statements by government
sources that the United States in
tended to go directly to the source
Noting that “this administra
tion speaks with one voice,” and
that Secretary of State Alexander
Haig speaks for the president un
less he specifies otherwise, Meese
said:
“What he has said is that we will
take whatever measures are
necessary. We now are talking to
governments through which the
shipments are coming, and they
are indicating they will take steps
to stop the illegal shipment of
arms.”
Asked if he was ruling out a
blockade of Cuba, Meese replied,
“I think one thing you don’t do is
rule out anything.”
“You don’t want your adversary
to know what you won’t do. Presi
dent Reagan wants his adversaries
to go to bed every night wonder
ing what he will do.”
“It is time that those seeking to
spread subversion realize that we
now have an administration that
will take whatever steps are nec-
cessary to secure peace anywhere
in the world,” he said. Steps that
might be taken “are not limited!}
military force," he said.
Reminded that Jimmy Cartel
tried such steps unsuccessliillj
while president, Meese said (Ik
difference is that Reagan is “consi
dered, deliberate and thoughts
and when he says something I*
will back it up.” uiH
Reagan said, “we are all ven
concerned” about the El Salvadii
situation in speaking briefly tore-
porters as he was leaving Califor
nia to return to Washington.
Meese said Reagan was being
kept informed “up to the minute’
on developments in the Cental
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WASHINGTON — President
Reagan is estimated to have assets
with a net worth of $4 million —
more than twice his own disclo
sure in 1976, it was reported
today.
The New York Times said it
based the estimate on a report
Reagan filed last week with the
Office of Government Ethics cov
ering 1980 until the day he took
office, plus other information on
his finances.
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worth at $1,455,571.
The newspaper said an increase
in the value of his California home
accounted for a large portion of his
greater financial worth as calcu
lated by the Times. In 1976,
Reagan said the Pacific Palisades
residence was worth $200,000. He
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In the ethics office report, cov
ering the year 1980 and ending
Jan. 20, the day he assumed the
presidency, Reagan said his gross
income exceeded $230,000. Exact
figures could not be calculated be
cause income, under federal law,
is reported in broad brackets.
But the Times said that his in-
come for the period was far less
than his 1979 adjusted gross in
come — fisted as $515,878 — in a
tax return he released during the
1980 campaign.
The newspaper said his most
recent disclosure indicated most
of his 1980 income came from fo
terest on cash savings and a moil
gage he holds, speech feesandfoi
California pension as a former gov
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The Times said its review d
financial records revealed kis
assets were:
— The Pacific Palisades Hoik
worth $1.9 million.
—His 688-acre ranch noitl-
west of Santa Barbara, Calif. Ht
bought it in 1974 for $526,000,but
the Santa Barbara assessor esti
mates the property is now wort!
$1 million.
—Cash of $740,000 accumu
lated from the sale of stocks, Hi!
money was placed in a blind tntf
last month.
—Mortgages worth $600,M
which Reagan holds on a 771-aiK
ranch in Riverside, Calif., thatb
sold in 1976.
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HOUSTON — Three children,
ages 4, 6 and 8, told investigators
they were playing with matches
that set a school on fire and des-
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The boys, who five near the
school, were not injured in Sun
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