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Wednesday • March 19,1}
Bush supports property tax revisioi
AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. George W. Bush
stepped up his push for a property tax
overhaul Tuesday, portraying the fight as
one between struggling homeowners
and businesses that now go untaxed.
“In our state of Texas, we’ve got a few
that pay a lot and a lot that pay none,”
Bush said. “Tm not ashamed to say that
if we’re going to have a tax system, it
ought to be fair. Everybody ought to pay
a little.”
Lawmakers have been studying
Bush’s tax proposal and also looking for other al
ternatives to the local school property tax, which
generates more than $9 billion a year.
Bush wants to reduce school property taxes
by $3 billion, paying for it with a $1 billion state
budget surplus, a half-cent sales tax increase and
a new business activity tax. v
Bush
But he said various business groups
are fighting the business tax idea, and
others are trying to protect current sales
tax exemptions lawmakers are consid
ering for possible elimination.
“The noise level is loud at the Capi
tol, because there are a lot of lobbyists
who are paid a lot of money to protect
the interests of those who pay no tax to
the state of Texas, and that’s not fair,”
Bush said.
“My job is to represent those whose
voices are not heard ... people who are desper
ately worried about owning their most prized
possession — their home.”
The governor’s comments came in a speech
to the Texas Association of Builders. Bush drew
repeated applause when he said it would be bad
policy for Texas to discourage home ownership.
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tax squeeze in our country. One reason\
because the most prized possession ofourn
die class is getting heavily taxed.”
Bush, a Republican, said the issue isn’t pai
He said he hears from working people across
state who agree property taxes are too high, /f f-w
He read a letter from two retired statei /f
ers who said their property taxes rose It
$3,197 in 1992 to a projected $5,169 in 199' ’ T ere
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up with these tax increases on our fixed inco: . JL W1
Therefore, we have sold our house ofovet eakwas
years and are moving to Tennessee,” Bushrc ity, Padr
saying their property taxes in that state totalo e Chick
$625 a year. ge stude
"I don’t need to take a poll,” Bush saidof iot. Thai
public support. “We’ve got a problem in Texas jd” men
bad today, and it’s going to get worse tomorra es parth
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AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — The
Russians never needed U.S. aid in
building nuclear weapons, but this
week they are enlisting their old Cold
War adversaries for help in safely dis
posing of their plutonium stockpile.
“We’re trying to understand their
safety cultures, then offer them our
ideas,” said Paul F. Krumpe, with the
U.S. Department of Energy.
About 30 Russian scientists
and nuclear officials are attend
ing a week-long NATO-sponsored
conference with their American
counterparts here, just a hop
from this country’s largest pluto
nium storehouse.
The conference was hosted by
the Amarillo National Resource
Center for Plutonium, a consortium
that includes the University of
Texas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech.
Since Russia is determined to
convert an estimated 50 tons of ex
cess weapons-grade plutonium into
mixed-oxide, or MOX, fuel, the Unit
ed States has pledged to help make
sure it does so safely, Krumpe said.
The United States would like to
see the Russians adopt many U.S.
regulatory models to strengthen
their oversight system, which cur
rently differs from plant to plant,
one high-ranking federal source
said on condition of anonymity.
He added the Russians tradition
ally have concerned themselves with
major disasters while letting every
day safety issues go unchecked.
The central topic Tuesday was
MOX fuel conversion, a process de
cried by anti-nuclear forces as a
continued proliferation of plutoni
um. Most nuclear watchdog groups
support immobilization of plutoni
um in a glass mixture, supposedly
making it unrecoverable for future
weapons use.
Immobilization is not on the
five-day agenda.
“Our main concern is that there’s
not a full representation of scientific
opinion at the conference,” said Don
Moniak, president of Serious Texans
Against Nuclear Dumping, which
opposes a MOX plant at Pantex.
Russia doesn’t trust immobiliza-
“From my point of
view, the main reason
is to expend weapons
grade plutonium
rather then keep it
and have the opportu
nity to use it again for
military purposes.”
Victor Bolyatko
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ing and Physics Institute.
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profit of removing this plutonift res 10 ^
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States burn its plutonium in reac
tors. At least two Russian cities
might someday rely on MOX fuel for
power, Krumpe said.
MOX facility on
premises just east of town.
Pantex is one of four DOE sites
der consideration for such a fai
“Once the plutonium isallhi
it creates more of an incentive toi
it (MOX) here,” Moniak said."
issue of processing is entirely di
ent than the issue of storage.”
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Objections to abortion bill dismay sponso
Judges concerned over bill that would require parental notification for minor
AUSTIN (AP) — Last-minute
objections to a bill that would re
quire parental notification for mi
nors to get an abortion were de
nounced Tuesday as a “red
herring” by Sen. Florence
Shapiro, the bill’s author.
The concerns came from Harris
County judges over provisions in
the bill that allow for a girl to go to a
judge to get around the parental no
tification requirement.
“I’m very dismayed and disap
pointed in those judges for wait
ing until the last minute before we
get a hearing on the Senate floor,”
said Shapiro, R-Plano.
The Senate on Wednesday was
expected to take up her measure,
the first time that chamber has
voted on a major abortion bill
since the U.S. Supreme Court’s
Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, al
lowing the procedure nationally.
Anti-abortion activists support
the measure, which Shapiro de
scribes as a “parental rights bill.”
Some abortion rights activists say it
would invade a young woman’s pri
vacy and would drive many teen
agers to seek illegal abortions.
The Senate’s new Republican ma
jority is expected to pave the way for
that chamber’s approval of the bill.
The House has voted once on a sim
ilar measure providing for parental
consent, approving
it in 1981 but
watching it die in
the Senate.
Shapiro said the
“judicial bypass”
section of her bill
hasn’t changed in
the four years,
since she first filed
the measure “be
cause we had con
stitutional lawyers
that helped us to
create and draft”
the provision.
“This is the
11th hour after
four years, and I think it’s a red
herring,” she said.
Shapiro said she could not im
mediately remember the names
of all four Harris County judges
who visited her office on the mat
ter. She said one was state District
Judge Don Wittig, a former attor
ney general candidate. He did not
immediately return a telephone
call from The Associated Press.
Sen. Jon Lindsay, a former Harris
County judge whose wife is a state
district judge,
Fin very dismayed
and disappointed in
those judges for
waiting until the
last minute before
we get a hearing on
the Senate floor.”
said the judges’
concerns about
Shapiro’s bill
were serious. He
said he planned
to offer amend
ments to im
prove the mea
sure.
“I think they
are valid con
cerns,” said Lind
say, R-Houston.
“Why they didn’t
come up before, I
don’t know. I
think the bill was
very poorly drafted.”
Lindsay said the bill would
provide for a minor to go to a
county court at law rather than to
a state district court to initiate the
process of getting the judge’s per
mission. Lindsay said the minor
should go to a district court that
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having the necessary 21 votesin
the 31-member Senate to
up the bill.
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the bill is passed out of the Sent
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there,” Shapiro said.
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