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By N. laVerl Christensen Since President Reagan took office, talk of selling surplus public lands and other real property has been accelerated. lndeed there has been considerable talk of earmarking monies derived from such sales toward reducing the $1 trillion-plus national debt. Earlier this year President Reagan initiated a new property program aimed at improving… Continue reading Surplus Iund
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Awhile back the General Services Administration discovered it had wasted more than $300,000 by renting 18,000 feet of office space in New York that went unused for nearly two years. 1 i ” It cancelled the lease after investigating a tip from the nationwide, toll-free fraud hotline, set up nearly four years, ago to fight… Continue reading GAO lHotline Saves Millions

When President Reagan announced formation of a presidential commission on drunk driving and a campaign for seat belt use he commented that the nation is “outraged” by the camage on the highways. He had good reasons for both the action and the comment: – Fifty thousand Americans die annually on the streets and highways, about… Continue reading Reagan Fights Drunken Drivers

A recommendation by the Governor’s Panel on Drinking and Driving that recommended stiffer penalties for drunk drivers and tightening the legal definition of drunkenness should get serious attention by the state’s legislators. Alcohol-related accidents are unusually gruesome. Large numbers of drinking drivers involved in accidents either kill themselves or someone else. In 1981, more than… Continue reading War on Drunk Driving Necessary

Should the Internal Revenue Service be exempt from compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act passed by Congress in December 19807 Sen. Lowell Weicker Jr., R-Conn., chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee, and 12 members of his panel don’t think so. The’ve written a letter to Sen, Robert Dole, R-Kan. chairman of the Senate Finance… Continue reading IRS Red Tape Should Be Lessened

Congressional procedures sometimes seem slow and unwieldy but the lawmakers demonstrated they can act efficiently and with dispatch in a crisis when they passed emergency legislation to impose a railroad strike settlement. As a result, freight and passenger trains are rolling again after a four-day strike of 26,000 locomotive engineers that paralyzed rail transportation. The… Continue reading Ruilroud Meusu re Reduces Losses

It was the same sad story – portrayed by the government’s just – released report on traffic fatalities for 1980. A total of 51,077 deaths on the nation’s streets and highways, matching or surpassing the 50,000-plus American fatalities in the Vietnam War. Significant, the government said, was a dramatic increase in the problem of drunk… Continue reading Let’s Punish Drunk Drivers Now

Should a court-adjudicated debt for a liability based on driving while intoxicated be dischargeable under bankruptcy laws’? Legislation introduced in Congress seeks to amend the Federal Bankruptcy Act to prevent-that possibility. The appoach seems sensible as well as timely in view of the current national antidrunk driving campaign. “The amendment will provide victims and their… Continue reading Drunks Misusing Bunkrupt Law

Congress demonstrated political courage in passing an election-year tax increase totaling $98.3 billion over the next three years. Though controversial in many respects, the measure was widely-regarded as a key step toward economic recovery. -President Reagan backed the bill during weeks of intensive lobbying, especially within reluctant conservative ranks of the Republican Party. The victory… Continue reading Tax Bill Passage Took Courage