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CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, November 30, 1983
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Panel to review Kansas taxes and send evaluation to Carlin
By Staff and Wire Reports
Lt. Gov. Thomas Docking yesterday organized his Kansas Tax Review Commission that includes a University of Kansas law professor and told the members he hoped they would be "freed" in their consideration to the tax system.
The professor, Martin Dickinson, and Douglas County Commission Nancy Hiebert are two Lawrence residents among the 12 members on the commission.
Docking, a Wichita tax attorney, said the group would meet monthly in different areas of the state because the police stock of all the time to need to have blinders.
THE LIETENANT GOVERNOR said he thought the review committee was the most important thing he could do to prevent arbitration because of his tax background.
Dickinson said he probably was chosen for the group because of his expertise in tax law. In addition to his teaching, Dickinson works as a consultant for the Lawrence law firm of Merrison, Emerson, Six, Springer and Zinn.
"Generally, we would first seek to obtain a general understanding of the Kansas tex system and how it works," Dickinson said.
Until now, the group will analyze its findings and write a report to the governor. Dickinson said he expected the governor would do everything before the report would be completed.
The group's work will be supplemented by help from Docking's staff and from the department of revenue, Dickinson said. Also, he said, Darwin
Daicoff, KU professor of economics, will probably be consulted by the group. Daicoff has done economic forecasting for the state.
DICKINSON HE could not predict what the group's findings would be, especially in regard to the complex nature of property and reappraisal
The lieutenant governor also said he would not attempt to analyze the tax system until the "comprehensive response" had been made, which he said would take several months.
The commission should not limit itself to state taxes such as income, sales and inheritance, Docking said, but should include a look at local taxes.
COMMITTEE MEMBER Ivan Wyatt, president of the Kansas Farmers Union, said, "Over the years we've seen this tax structure build up like one patch on top of another. We need to peel back patches and get down to the foundation."
Docking he had received "more than a few cynical questions" asking whether his commission would be looking for justification of taxes instead of interest, then to review the rest and then make recommendations to the governor.
Steve Perkins, vice president of corporate planning at Fourth National Bank and Trust of Wichita and a member of the commission, said that if the panel attempted to look at revenue needs, it would never finish its job.
Docking said the commission would use research already completed by others and seek the aid of universities and other groups in reaching a "full-blown" picture of the tax system."
The KU athletic department will not file charges against four people who have been identified in helping to tear down the goal posts in St. Louis. The University of Kansas' football victory over the University of Missouri Nov. 19.
Johnson decides against pursuing goal post charges
James Denney, director of KU police, said that Monte Johnson, KU's athletic director, called him yesterday morning and said that he would not file charges against the four people.
By the Kansan Staff
The district attorney's office has been notified of the athletic department's decision. Demesnay said, "We have there assaulted may still file charges.
Denney said that Johnson did not want to minimize the seriousness of what had happened and that Johnson specific reason for not filing charges.
Denney said that police had had difficulty identifying people who assaulted the officers because it was hard to identify the tape of the incident was taken.
But he said that the department would continue to try to identify people who assaulted officers.
Denny said last week that the videotape showed that about 3,000 people had gathered on the sidelines seconds before the game ended. He said that the north goal posts were torn down and that the south goal posts were torn down about 1 1/2 minutes later.
Congress should advocate a freeze on military and general spending to reduce the federal budget deficit, Rep. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., told about 40 members of the KU College Republicans during a speech at the Kansas Union last night.
Bv BRUCE F. HONOMICHI.
Roberts advocates limit on military spending
Staff Reporter
"I would have voted for a freeze on military spending if it had come to a vote," Roberts said. "We should spend as much as is necessary in response to the threat from our adversaries." But we also have other important things to address.
"ON DEFENSE, the president pushed for a 13 percent increase in defense spending. He got something like 3½%, or about a $240 million budget. I'd settle for a 2 or 3 percent across the board increase. But we're getting spending bills too."
Roberts was the only Kansas member of the House to vote last year against both the MX Missile and financing for nerve gas, two weapons that President Reagan favors. Roberts said that nerve gas was not only expensive but illegal, according to international law agreed to at the Geneva Convention.
The Senate finally approved the MX last month, despite objections from some Senate Democrats who wanted to trim the number of seats.
Roberts also told the group that farm problems and foreign policy were entwined.
Roberts, who represents Kansas' first district, criticized previous administrations for putting embargoes on certain farm products to countries that had opposed U.S. policies. He said the actions had hurt farmers.
AGRICULTURE IS THE main industry in nearly all of the 58 counties in Roberts' district, which stretches from Marysville, in Northeastern Kansas, to the Kansas-Colorado border, and south to the Oklahoma border.
"We've gained a lot of benefits over the years from farm income," he said. "But farmers have had some problems. You don't see Robert Byrd, the senator from West Virginia, say that the coal miners in his state are going to give up 25 percent of their income because of an embargo on coal for the attack on the Korean jetliner.
"BUT THAT'S WHAT you tell a Kansas farmer when you embargo his wheat."
Stephen Phillips/KANSAN
Rep, Pat Roberts, R-Kun., tells KU College Republicans that increases in spending by the federal government, including defense spending, should be frozen for a year. Roberts spoke to the group last night in the Kansas Union.
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