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Lifting tax burdens
Dear editor:
I would like to correct two
statements that appeared in the
interview story in Thursday's Daily
Nebraskan on the 27th District
legislative racee. I do not advocate a
"piecemeal" approach to removing the
property tax burden. This is what I am
against. This is the way that it is being
done now one special interest group
and then another getting property tax
exemptions.
The present method has worked
against the average citizen, as it is the
largest businesses and not the
individual taxpayer who has been
getting the tax breaks.
Also, it is the current tax system
that js hurting senior citizens the
property tax discriminates against
those on a fixed income, as it does not
accurately reflect an individual's
ability to pay.
Therefore I support a more
extensive move away from property
taxes than the current piece-meal
approach. This could be done by
moving to a higher afosont of state aid
to local schools, replacgig the property
tax revenues with mqfley raised from
the state sales andncome taxes,
primarily the income ijaxes.
Steve Fowler
Corn Cob- corruption -
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I am a student at.kh's University
and I am appalled at tfce audacity of
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$25 a couple to the appreciation for,
Bob Devaney. First of all, who do they
think they are? And who do they
think we, the students, are?
For that kind of money what does
the pep organization wish to finance;
are they intending to spend two weeks
at the Fontainebleu in Miami for the
Orange Bowl, all expenses paid out of
their treasury, or are they trying to
run somebody for president?
I appreciate the job Bob Devaney's
done for the football team and I had
planned to attend the appreciation
dinner when it was first announced. It
is my hope that these organizations
will reconsider charging the prices they
first set and reduce them to a more
affordable charge.
Christopher Roubicek
Nixon's sex appeal . . .
Dear Editor:
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I
thought the Daily Nebraskan was
going to concentrate on political
rather than non-political issues this
eiection year. If this is true, could you
please explain to me the necessity of
theorizing a "love" scene between
President and Mrs. Nixon? (Friday's
editorial by Hoppe.)
Wilma G. Ennenga
Editor's note: Hoppe's column was,
of course, a satire, as are the majority
of his columns. Any other
interpretation is mistaken.
. . . and his politics
Dear Editor:
It is right and proper to speak of an
election using facts as a basis for
making judgments about a candidate.
In his Monday editorial, however, Jim
Gray goes far beyond this concept in
his all-inclusive blast at Nixon.
Gray is correct in pointing a finger
at the scandals that have taken place
under Nixon, and voters should
consider this when voting next month.
However, his other statements are
irresponsible in light of the facts.
Considering the wheat deal, it still has
not been established that grain
exporters profited greatly from the
sale.
In Vietnam, Nixon has consistently
followed a policy that has been
supported by a majority of the people
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according to all the public opinion
polls.
Our supposed "soaring inflation
rates" have been slowed by the very
wage and price controls that most
Democratic leaders urged in the spring
and summer of 1971, and our inflation
rate is still lower than any other
western industrial nation. Gray wants
his cake and eats it too, because he
attacks Nixon for vetoing public works
bills that would have made inflation
worse.
Blaming Nixon for "worth of the
dollar", unemployment, and a
"sagging economy" is totally without
foundation. Few presidents have ever
taken as strpng initiative in the world
monetary system to effect a new
realistic world curreppy, and he, has
..been applauded itf fihandfel circK foV
his work on bur balance of payrr!entsn
problem.
The U.S.' economy has rebounded
strongly in 1972, and economists say
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this will continue into 1973. In no
way do we have a sagging economy
right now.
My last point concerns Gray's
charge of presidential politics in
Nixon's "campaigning" abroad. Every
president who has ever traveled at all
could be accused of this, and so could
some senators (bdward Kennedy, for
example). When Gray points out that
the trips to Russia and China were
within one year of the election, he is
not criticizing the value of these trip:
themselves but their timing.
After an editorial that strays as far
from documented fact as this one did
on Monday, I hope the Daily
Nebraskan will make equal time
available.
Ken Cobb
; J Editor's note: The Daily Nebraskan
has run frequent columns and
editorials which praised the President
this year, including a three-quarters
page column by John Vihstadt Sept.
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