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University Daily Kansan, November 17, 1982
U.S. Rep. shies away from gas tax Slattery endorses some form of jobs bill
By BRUCE SCHREINER Staff Reporter
Democratic Congressman-elect Jim Slattery, still wading through the difficult problems facing Congress, yesterday endorsed some form of jobs bill but stopped short of supporting the one linked to a gasoline tax increase.
Kansas' newest congressman also evaded the Social Security stalemate, but he said a quick solution was mandatory.
Slattery, who will succeed Republican Rep. Jim Jeffries in January, would not pass judgment on a proposed job program for highway and bridge work that is based on a 5-cent gasoline tax increase.
The measure has received some bipartisan support. Kansas GOS. Sen Bob Dole and various Reagan administration Democrats have elected Democrats in boosting the proposal.
"RIGHT NOW, I don't know whether I will support it." Slattery said in a telephone interview. "I haven't been able to see all the facts yet. But I do support the basic idea of a jobs bill to get people back to work."
Slattery, a 34-year-old Topeka businessman, said that another alternative for financing a jobs bill would be to delay next year's 10 percent tax cut and to reduce Defense and Energy Department budgets.
During his campaign against Lawrence Republican Morris Kay, Slattery repeatedly said a delay in the final leg of President Reagan's three-year, 25 percent tax-cut package might be needed to offset an expected $180 billion deficit.
"I would like to see a comprehensive plan, which would include cutbacks in military spending, trimming spending agencies and also a job bill," he said.
THE 5-CENT increase in the gasoline tax is another alternative. There are going to be different alternatives put forth, and if one is better than the one I talked about, then I will go with it."
Some House Democrats have grumbled about the timing of a tax reduction that occurs while the government is grappling with record deficits.
Slatterry said he had not decided whether to propose the final 10-percent discount.
"I don't know whether I would vote against the tax cut. It depends on interest rates and where the economy is at the time," he said.
"But I'm very worried about interest rates because of the deficits. The government is competing with private industry for the same available capital. And if interest rates rise, we will be in need of more loans that have no sustained economic recovery."
knife when it reviewed Defense and Energy Department budgets in an attempt to lower the deficit.
Slattery said he might favor Congress' wielding a sharp cutt-up
SLATTERY SAID the house could have several options, including the controversial MX missile system, when it would be parts of the defense budget it could cut.
"I'm concerned about the 600-ship Navy and some of the other nuclear weapons being proposed," he said. "We don't have to worry about overall cost procurement procedures."
"And the administration has talked of saving $1 billion to $2 billion in the Energy Department, and I have no problem with that if the commitment to energy research and its services continues."
When he gave his prognosis of the ailing Social Security system, Slattery evaded commenting on most of the alternatives compiled by the special commission that studies Social Security.
But Slattery, who predicted that party partisanship would be discarded when decisions were made, said the failure of his benefits would be safe from review.
"THEE HAS been a little misunderstanding about talk of cutting benefits," he said. "We don't have to cut benefits, but we need to change the methods for computing future increases. I will oppose any efforts to cut benefits below what they currently are."
He said he would support an effort to raise the eligibility requirements to keep more people paying into the system for a longer time span
"In the long term, I think this will be modified. We could phase the increases in age in around the year 2000, but the decision has to be made now," he said.
Slattery suggested raising the minimum age to receive partial benefits from 62 to 65 and increasing the age to obtain full benefits from 65 to 68.
The Topeka resident said he opposed efforts to incorporate current federal workers into the Social Security system, one of the commission's proposals. But Slattery might consider future federal employees in the system.
Inner-fund borrowing is a short-term alternative to making the system financially sound, Slattery said.
BUT SLATTERY said he was still studying proposals to hasten future increases in the payroll tax. One compromise now under consideration would be to move tax increases did for 1858, 1863 and 1900 back to 1984.
The payroll tax now paid by employees and employees is 6.7 percent. By
Another proposal Slattery said he was still studying would base the system's cost-of-living formula on price increases instead of on price increases.
Youths injured in chase possibly facing charges
Three Independence, Mo., youths who led Kansas Highway Patrolmen on a high speed chase yesterday morning may be facing charges in both Douglas County and Jackson County, Mo., a patrolman said yesterday.
One of the youths, Rodney Thurber, 17, was in satisfactory condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital yesterday. A patrolman said Thurber broke a wire on his truck and ended a chase from Bonner Springs to the East Lawrence exit on Interstate 70.
The driver of the car, Highland Mulu, 15, was treated and released from Lawrence Memorial to undergo further treatment. A paramedic patrolmen and hospital officials said.
Trooper Timothy Nails said Mulu suffered a severer laceration to his left arm.
OFFICIALS at the Truman Medical center said Mulu had been at the hospital after an attack.
The other youth involved in the incident was in Douglas County jail yesterday. The youth, Bryan Harness, 17, was treated at the hospital after the accident and was taken to the jail by a trooper.
County they would be sent through juvenile court.
A difference in the legal adult age in Missouri and Kansas might create an awkward situation, Dennis said. Harness and Thurber could be tried as adults in Missouri, where the adult age is 17, Dennis said, but in Douglas
The 1974 Pontiac the three youths were driving was stolen from Independence, Mo. Dennis said. He said he knew the driver in some case or all three youths for the car the car, theft.
DENNIS SAID he was recommending that the Douglas County district attorney's office charge Mulu with possession of stolen property, aggravated assault against a police officer, wreckless driving, attempting to elude a police officer and driving without a driver's license.
Mulu was arrested yesterday morning after the accident but has not been charged.
The chase began when a patrolman tried to stop the youths for making an illegal U-turn. Three patrolmen participated, and the last lasted 12 minutes and covered 20 miles.
Dennis and another patrolman said Mulu tried to force them off the road the day before.
"They had all had something to drink, but they weren't intoxicated," he said. "One of them told me they were drunk." He went back to 70. That's why they made the U-turn.
The chase ended when the car Mulli was driving went airborne as he tried to escape.
was surprised they were not more seriously injured, Dennis said. "I was just shocked."
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