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don't want to pay any more taxes than absolutely necessary. As
Mencker put it in '25, the intelligent man sees taxes as neither a
prudent nor productive investment but rather a mulcting for services
useless and "in substantial part, inionical to him. 11 Police force may
be necessary to save his life, armed forces to safeguard his country,
but he sees these things as "extravagantly expensive" and constituting
agencies that would, if legally possible, "strip him to his hide, 11 leaving
him any money at all only "prudentially, as a farmer leaves a hen some
of her eggs. 11 Would Mencher were alive now, says Hart, "In its game
against RN, IRS won big - - but I for one am not standing and cheering. 11
Thimmesch discusses Tower amendment which would have MCs
give copy of tax returns to joint tax comm and reaction to it by
"political headliners" like EMK, Percy, Jackson, Weicker and
Bentsen. "Then there are those who refuse to strip down¹ like
Buckley, Javits and O'Neill. Further, "liberal Dem delegation
from NY, which delights in screaming about RN, Wgate and all
forms of perfidy, 11 as a group doesn't want to show all their returns.
Thimmesch says, "It's time for would-be pres and fierce critics
of RN's finances to follow suit, to become political streakers, if
you will. What's good enough for a pres ought to be good enough
for Hill. 11
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