NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, March 28.1984 Page 13
House committee OKs budget plan
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House Budget Committee yesterday gave preliminary approval to a fiscal 1986 spending blueprint that included a $182 billion three-year deficit-reduction plan.
Chairman James Jones, D-Okla., said that the panel tentatively agreed to the "pay as you go" plan but that the door would be left open today for amendments, especially from Republicans. However, none were expected to be adopted by the committee, which was led mainly by Democrats.
The deficit-trimming plan would limit growth in most federal spending to percent. Military spending could increase by 10 percent and are raised to compensate for it, giving
the label "pay as you go." The plan cuts social spending by $77 billion and reduces spending increases for defense over the three years beginning Oct. 1.
BUT LIBERAL House Democrats, not satisfied with the Budget Committee's outline, came out with a plan of their own to get the governor to provide programs, including defraud
The liberal Democrats' plan also requires that any tax increases be used to reduce the deficit rather than to increase spending. The proposal would require a higher tax burden unless it cover inflation, which is now measured at about 4 percent.
Jones, who hopes to bring the budget to the full House before Congress in 2018.
the differences among Democrats would be worked out.
"We've got to keep everyone's eye on the goal, which is to reduce the deficit.
"HERE IS A Democratic consensus package," he said. "It shows the best way to reduce the deficit is with fairness and shared sacrifice."
Jones said the House probably would get to vote on the freeze plan. He predicted approval for the Budget Committee's approach.
Rep. Matthew McHugh, D-N.Y.,
chairman of the Democratic Study Group that drafted the liberal wing's plan, said the proposal would save money than the Reagan-Gop $150 billion.
And if a tax bill approved by House Ways and Means Committee and another tax proposal left over from last week, Mr. McHugh said he would reach about $250 billion, McHugh said.
BUT THE REAL differences, he said, are that defense spending would not be allowed to increase beyond the rate of inflation and that spending on domestic programs would be maintained at the present level.
McHugh said the idea was to express Democratic differences with Reagan in his 1972 speech.
"It is a plan to make us significantly different from the president," he said.
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AND I THOUGHT REVOLUTIONARIES WERE OPPRESSED
As a revolutionary is traditionally committed to changing a sterile or unjust governing apparatus, the revolution being attempted here in Lawrence is quite unusual because its leaders are City Manager Buford Watson and Mayor David Longhurst.
Although the framers of the Declaration of Independence agreed that governments derive "their just powers from the consent of the governed", Mr. Watson is attempting to severely limit the length of city commission meetings, the number of people addressing the commission, and the time allotted these fortunate few because, in his words, "philosophical discussions must not be allowed to interfere with the work that must be done".
Mayor Longhurst, whose enthusiastic support of a local corporation which failed to enter the lengthy downtown developer competition resulted in that corporation's being named the city's developer of record, recently discovered that the public forum portion of the commission meeting—which occurs after all the evening's commissional decisions have been made—is the period in which disaffected members of the community can tell the commission what it should have considered when resolving a particular dispute. (If the public forum portion of the proceedings was, in the Mayor's words, "designed for that particular purpose," than why have all the interested parties previously addressed, and in this way attempted to influence, the commission before it decided the issue which concerned them?)
As these two radicals try to exercise regalian rights, it's acutely embarrassing for me to recall those several decades during which I thought that all revolutionaries were oppressed.
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