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kl a.x Im irnnl PR is still baffliiig to most Europeans f4 duciIna vista, na. (UPI) Europeans were If V. K' startled when colonists dumped tea in Boston harbor, and they find America's latest tax revolt just as surprising. community at Walt Disney World. "We have been talking about how surprising it is to hear of an American tax revolt when your country is lagging far behind the rest of us in amount of taxes," Lindbeck said.

A tax survey released by a private business research group several weeks ago ranked the United States No. 10 among a dozen industrialized countries. The report said 1975 data showed personal income taxes amounted to 11 percent of household income in the U.S. Only citizens living in Italy and Prance paid less, the survey said. Personal income taxes were highest in Denmark at 28 Sweden, 23 percent, and the United Kingdom at, 16 percent.

"People in the U.S. don't realize what a low tax country it is," Lindbeck said. In his native Sweden, the sales tax alone is 20 percent. "But there is not in Europe the kind of resentment about their big tax bite that you get here." Lindbeck said hefty taxes are a European tradition. They feel better about the taxes they pay, he said, because the benefits are more tangible.

"They get it in the form of free hospital care or housing subsidies or good public education." He said differences in the way government expenditures are determined are also a factor in European acceptance of tax burdens. "In Europe it is government and parties that push programs. I think they may be more skillful at claiming an ideological basis for spending," he said. "Here it is more individual senators and congressmen who push particular interests. Possibly, they are more wasteful while attempting to help themselves to be reelected." Lindbeck is not ignorant of maneuvers by politicians everywhere to please special inter- ests with government appropriations.

He once proposed that elections be decided by lottery to combat the expansion of government spending that always coincides with election time. "European and American politicians sometimes have the same ideas," he conceded. But the spiraling property tax that sent California voters to the polls is a mostly American I phenomenen, Lindbeck said. "People wake up one morning to find their taxes doubled. This is very disturbing on a single item.

If seems so arbitrary." Although most show no sign of resentment, he said, there is some skepticism among Euro- peans about what governments; can do with tax recalled an election irC-Denmark in which a attracted 20 percent of the vote with a campaign based orw abolishing taxation and bureau-, cracy. 'X "Your Proposition 13 is hard, for us to understand," said Assar Lindbeck, a professor in Stockholm, Sweden and a financial consultant to the World Bank. He said the push by California residents to slash their property taxes produced confusion among Europeans attending a recent conference of the international business Photo by Ann Hottish Ytllow-bllUd cuckoo holff -hidden In tho trot. Bird column TO Flying down to Charlotte mm imwmm KING of VALUES LIMITED QUANTITIES IN SOME STORES. BIG BLUE LAUNDRY DETERGENT ByAnneL.Hettish On Saturday, Sept.

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not quite as early as we would have liked since early morning fog and haze combined with smoke is a big factor in this entire area. We were off, however, by 11 and in Charlotte a couple of hours later. By this time the mercury had started climbing, and we did the tourist bit through Charleston's quaint street with the sun beating down upon us. We walked and walked. There is so much to see that there is simply no way to see everything.

Eighteenth and nineteenth century houses are squeezed into every available spot, mansions with their pillared porches running along the length of a lot instead of the width with another house of superb qualities directly beside it or around the corner. Beautiful churchs not one of them open St. Phillip's Protestant Episcopal church one of the most impressive. John C. Calhoun lies buried in its cemetery across (the street where I sat on an old mossy gravestone to change the film in my camera.

The city market with its lavish blue wrought iron entrance just a short distance from our Heart of Charleston Motel on Meeting street. The building houses a DAR museum but on the street level, running under the museum and for several blocks further is a colorful market with everything being sold from baskets being woven on the premises to fresh fruit and necklaces and other jewelry made of shells. The Ice House is an attractive restaurant in this same market complex with boutiques on each side. Along the Battery are the much-photographed four story houses with their widows walks, magnificent, solid structures looking out on the Cooper River, which at the tip end of Charleston's historic district, meets the Ashley River. To reach the ocean there are longer trips in either direction.

We chose one which led to Folly Beach where we watched willets in the surf and gulls riding the waves. We made another excursion to Magnolia Gardens where we enjoyed a rich birding experience to be continued nest week as they say. i aa Kwik kovern SELF ADHESIVE PAPER MIN.4 bfothsr SEWING MACHINE The plastic paper that's great for lining shelves, cabinets; or for decorating. VfUlpVUf LilglllV, VVOOllCt 182, the bird that we like best. At Charlotte we slipped in under a 2,500 hundred foot oVejcast and were shortly picked up by Dawn Mueller who was our hostess for our stay in Charlotte.

Dawn and Gerd live in one of the new areas carved out of Charlotte's hilly terrain with a woods full of tall trees just out past the deck that clings to the back of the house. Birding in those trees was particularly pleasant, yellow-billed cuckoos, myrtle warblers, immature or female scarlet tanagers, wrens, red-bellied woodpeckers, chickadees, titmice. The weather was brisk and delightful with a sunny day following the overcast day of arrival. Not having been in Charlotte since days of the, now defunct, Eastern Hockey League competition we were surprised to see how the city had grown, sprawled over many miles of rolling hills, surrounded by charming little towns such as York with a rich, old architecture, not preserved in the way we think of it now, but kept up by succeeding generations, lived in and loved. A marvelous shopping mall features a skating rink of hocky rink dimensions, a popular place, especially in the winter months according to Dawn.

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Several pounds of "ET" were found in his home after the murders. Investigators in Alameda County and El Dorado County said Ragusa is believed to have purchased $90,000 worth of the substance from Lee Hassler, a 35-year)ld Berkeley linguist who made frequent trips to Germany. Hassler was shot to death two. years ago. His body was found alongside Highway 50 in EI Dorado County, wrapped in a tarpaulin.

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