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argumentative. We have heard a lot during the passage of our own
income tax bill about the sales tax, the fact that it's one method of
taxation. Now, these Congressmen, of course, continue to pay the
sales tax in Maryland, and on their property they pay property taxes.
Would you discuss your philosophy of why the State income tax
should be exempt?

A. Well, because an income tax is a tax that particularly relates to
residents and the utilization of the services that are provided to resi-
dents on a state level. I suppose the educational costs may be an argu-
ment against what I'm saying to you if their children are in the
schools of Maryland, which, I would guess, that some of them are.
It's not an easy question to come to grips with, but I do think that
there are certain states that have no income tax that may be sending
these representatives to Washington and there are other states that
have income taxes with whom we have no reciprocity. There are all
kinds of entanglements that might subject these people to double
taxation, and some of them to no taxation. I come back to the con-
clusion that they are sent there (to Washington) to represent the
people of another state and they are in the same position as many
foreign diplomats, I suppose, that utilize the services of the State of
Maryland and don't pay any taxes here. They are a special status, so
I guess, as far as income taxes go; I don't think they should be sub-
jected to them. And it's hard to rationalize it and define it exactly
when you compare with the sales tax and the property tax, except to
say that the foreign diplomats also pay the sales tax and those that
own property also pay the property tax, but income taxes, no. People
have never been subjected to them unless they are bona fide residents
of the state levying the income tax, and I don't think these people
are bona fide residents.

STATEMENT ON CONTINUING TUGBOAT STRIKE

March 28, 1967

Late in the evening of March 9th, after several days of very difficult
but seemingly productive negotiations, I announced that the issues
which divided the parties during the lengthy tugboat dispute ap-
parently had been resolved. It then seemed to me and to the mediators
involved that nothing remained to be done but to formalize the
accord by reducing it to writing within the next few days.