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Thursday‘Apfij
Tax deadline brings ritual of IRS basl
WASHINGTON (AP) — As mil
lions of taxpayers scrambled to
meet the tax filing deadline, politi
cians and activists engaged in their
own springtime ritual of bashing
the IRS and pushing for changes.
Supporters of a flat tax and back
ers of a national sales tax held
events Wednesday ranging from a
re-enactment of the Boston Tea Par
ty in Boston to a mock funeral out
side the Baltimore IRS office to sym
bolize burial of the tax code.
But whether big changes were
on the way was another question.
“Until the politicians can satisfy
the public that they are not going to
pay more tax under these alterna
tives, I think tax reform is dead in
the water,” said Lawrence Gibbs, a
former IRS commissioner in the
Reagan administration.
And Sheldon Pollack, associate
professor at the University of
Delaware and author of “The Fail
ure of U.S. Tax Policy” agreed: “I
don’t think anyone realistically be
lieves it’s going to happen.”
Perhaps one measure of the
public’s mood was the attendance
at the “Taxpayer Day of Outrage”
rally in Lafayette Park across from
the White House.
Journalists outnumbered par
ticipants at the event, sponsored
by GOP strategist Grover Norquist
of Americans for Tax Reform.
Still, Republicans kept hitting
hard at the tax issue everywhere.
“Campaigns will send out mil
lions of direct mail pieces this year,
but the one mailing that will garner
the GOP the most support in this
^Americans have
had it up to the gills
with this tax code...”
Billy Tauzin
Rep. of Louisiana
election is due back to the IRS today,”
said Rep. John Under of Georgia,
chairman of the National Republican
Congressional Committee.
House Majority Leader Dick
Armey of Texas, and Rep. Billy
Tauzin of Louisiana staged their
own version of the Boston Tea Par
ty by dumping the tax code — safe
ly contained in a water cooler — in
Boston Harbor.
"Americans have had it up to the
gills with this tax code and they are
prepared to join us
movement to beatWa?;
this one,’’ saidlauzir
cates a nationalsalesis
vors a fiat tax.
Congress is expe: i
an IRS restructuring!;.)
that would providenf.l
innocent peoplewbog
for collection oftajdr
former spouses.
The bill also wouldr
board consisting of pri\c :
oversee the taxcoDector
The Senate version
also would suspend it
certain penalties when:
not notified a taxpayer; 1 ,
that he faces a penalty
A Senate vote isexpe
ly May, but not before:
Committee holds fourd
ings focusing on allege;
I RS enforcement agents
Meanwhile, the IRS a:
ton administration ate
improve customer sen
variety of initiatives.
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on the IRS,’’ Con
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tional Press Club on!
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy searched on
Wednesday for a place to store a moving rail shipment
of napalm and for a company to destroy the jellied
gasoline that was destined for recycling until politi
cians objected.
The 12,000 gallons ofVietnam-era napalm had left
California Saturday on the way to Pollution Control
Industries of East Chicago, Ind., but the company
abruptly backed out of its $24 million subcontract,
leaving the shipment riding the rails to nowhere.
On Wednesday, the one railcar load — part of 3.3
million gallons to be transported batch by batch over
two years — moved through Oklahoma toward
Kansas and Missouri. Transported by the Burlington
Northern/Santa Fe Railway, it was originally sched
uled to arrive in the Chicago area this weekend.
The Navy and Battelle Memorial Institute, the firm
that holds the main military contract and hired Pol
lution Control Industries for the job, were hoping a
company would take the napalm off their hands.
“The ideal solution is to find somebody that could
take it and treat it,” said Robin Yocum, a spokesman
for Ohio-based Battelle. “We want it to happen now.”
But finding a company with the proper permits
and approval from environmental and health au
thorities might take some time, meaning the load of
napalm may have to be stored before it can be de
stroyed, Yocum said.
The chemical has been stored near San Diego for
two decades, but California officials sought its re
moval after some containers began leaking
official, speaking on condition of anonymitv
Navy doesn't want to risk more headaches!!
ing the 12,000 gallons to California.
The Navy' is assuring the public there isnc
transporting the nonexplosive napalm, whicfe
in the Vietnam War to hum foliage. Italsokilk®
jured villagers, including a young girl wh • C
graphic image remains a searing image of the«
“We have been buss u iih rails all day,'\.:iL ,
Cheryl Austin, one of three members of a Ns f c
ivarh office lhat opened Wednesday ii lC( '
; , tine ii n the media but wehavei 1
ing with concerns, too." y ] f 1 ]
Lt. Cmdr. Jon Smith, a Navy spokesmai I M’ 1
military still wants to recycle all the napa P/ 1
toi ige. most likely using am>iliei sliIhu:; P^ u "I
the job. “We’re working it as aggressively and* P
ly as possible so we can to find a responsibksi ■'m
to all of this,” he said. 0ns
Pollution (iont ml Industries said itbaclfflBM
the deal because of political pressure.Thep
Robert Campbell, said his company hadbffti
in a tug of war among U.S. government apcie
members of Congress.
Rep. Ron Packard, R-Calif., who backs the
recycling plan, has asked the General Accouii
lice to look into what pressure, if any, was M
members of the administration or CongresstoJI
company to back out of its agreement.
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