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ANALYZE IT,
TEST IT SO
THAT WE CAN
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Filibustering slows
proposed gas tax
Steelworkers struggling
Christmas survival tough
United Press International
WEI RTON, W.Va. — “HeTl
get something for Christmas,”
said John Burdette, fondly
tousling the hair of his 5-year-
old son, ‘‘but it won’t be like it
used to be.”
Burdette, 29, earned $26,000
in the last full year he was a steel
worker. Jobless for the past 14
months, he has made up his
mind to re-enlist if the U.S.
Army will accept him.
“It’ll be a steady paycheck
coming in,” said Burdette,
whose eligibility for unemploy
ment compensation expired
months ago. His wife supports
the family with a minimum-
wage job as a diner cook.
Burdette sat on the steps of
the front porch of the modest
house he began buying for
$24,800 three years ago and
tried to explain the economics of
survival.
“We haven’t missed a mort
gage payment yet,” he said.
On top of the $283 monthly
house payment, the Burdettes
somehow also have managed to
meet car payments of $116 a
month and utility bills that aver
age $150 monthly.
“The wife’s a worrier,” Bur
dette said. “She used to worry
even when I was working.”
Now Mrs. Burdette worries
because she has been told she
earns too much at her job to
qualify for government help in
paying the fuel bills. The Bur
dettes have been told they are
not eligible for food stamps be
cause the family car is worth too
much.
“We can’t get on welfare be
cause the wife’s got the job and
we still have the house,” Burdet
te said.
The couple gave up their
medical insurance because they
could not afford the monthly
premium of $190.
If anyone gets the Burdettes’
house, it probably will be the
bank that holds their mortgage.
“I’d rather sell it than give it to
the bank,” Burdette said, “but
who could buy it in this town?”
Only about half of the 13,500
people employed two years ago
at Weirton Steel Co., a division
of National Steel Corp., are
working. To make matters
worse, National announced last
March that most of the factory
would be closed within five years
unless the workers would like to
buy the facility and run it them
selves.
Since the plant is the life’s
blood of this town of 25,000, the
offer was taken seriously.
If Weirton’s Independent
Steelworkers Union votes to buy
the plant, the price could be as
much as $200 million and work
ers would be forced to accept big
cuts in pay and benefits.
Some workers with the most
seniority are wary of jeopardiz
ing their pensions, but the town
and the majority of the steelwor
kers evidently favors the
takeover.
United Press International
WASH INGTON — President
Reagan’s proposed nickle-a-
gallon gasoline tax hike breezed
through the House, but it has
been stalled in the Senate by
three filibustering senators.
A vote was scheduled Mon
day to end their filibuster, but
even if suppporters of the bill
win, as they did on Friday,
another filibuster is likely dur
ing the actual debate of the mea
sure.
The bill would raise an esti
mated $5.5 billion a year to re
pair roads, bridges and mass
transit systems and would create
an estimated 320,000 jobs.
Sens. Gordon Humphrey, R-
N.H., Jesse Helms, R-N.C., and
Don Nickles, R-Okla., however,
oppose provisions of the bill that
would extend the influence of
labor unions over all federal
contracts.
They also fear it may short
change rural areas. The truck
ing industry is also against the
measure because it would great
ly increase taxes on their vehi
cles.
Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan.,
chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, said Sunday the gas
tax measure will, “pass in the
Senate. It may not be until New
Year’s Eve. But it will pass.”
The lame duck-Congress be
gan Nov. 29 and was to end
Friday.
But congressional leaders, cit
ing the filibuster and Reagan’s
struggle with the MX missile,
now say the session may last
through Christmas.
and water distribution.
It would be fundedbJ
ing the 1983 tax cutfel
earning more than $51),i
eliminating it for tbotl
$65,000.
The House Democtal
attached a $5.4 bill
ram to the crucial towJ
funding resolution that J
passed by Friday tom
ties operating.
Democrats largely supported
;. They also
the gas tax increase,
have proposed their own jobs
bills, raising the prospect of a
veto confrontations with the
White House.
Senate Democrats proposed a
$9.7 billion plan to create
600,000 jobs, including $6 bil
lion for public works such as
highways, bridges, and sewer
Its major itemsareSli
for community dev™
block grants for areasd
unemployment, andjlij
for emergency jt
targeted to persons vbj
been unemployed fotii
period of time. Buttbra
rious doubt whether ffl
can get through Conpal
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