On being a farm wife Joyce Bupp * '■HH -And other hazards Chocked full and topped off, our just ahead of the “diesel tax” which diesel fuel supply tanks are readied went into effect last week - April for the spring field work push by Fool’s Day appropriately enough - men and machines. is a credit to our dependable local That the tanks were topped off f ue l service firm. EAR CORN Paying Top Prices For Good Quality Ear Corn • Wet or Dry • No Quantity too large or too small • Fast Unloading - Dump on Pile & Go • Easy access - 2.2 miles off 283 bypass- Manheim, Mt. Joy exit • Daily Receiving 7:30 A.M. to 5 P.M. - un loading evenings & Saturdays by appt. • Trucks available for pick up at your farm. Call Anytime For Price 717-665-4785 JAMES E. 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Except that over looked in this budget correction legislation was the minor fact that off-road users of diesel, like far mers, fishermen, barge operators, etc., arc not subject to paying the tax to begin with. Swiped with the same wide brush, we off-farm MEMBER m, users of diesel now pay an extra 15-cents - which we don’t by law even owe - on every gallon deliv ered. (We use several thousand gallons of diesel here annually; many farms use several more times the volume we use.) Supposedly, by October 1, this “accident” of charging an unlevicd tax is to be repealed, and we can file for a tax credit next year. It can’t be done sooner because that tax income is already figured into this year’s budget spending. In other words, this unfairly-charged -diesel tax becomes Uncle’s Sam’s cash flow. And interest free. What about the farmer’s, or the fisherman’s, or barge operator’s cash flow? Who’s he going to tax in turn to make it up? Gee, we’re supposed to be a len der of sorts for the federal govern ment. Interest free? How many lending institutions have you ever heard of that operate like that? (One name; one name is all I need.) Right on the heels of this up front payment of unlevicd tax came a certified, rclum-rcccipt request, plain-brown-wrappcr envelope- also from our friends in Washington. This good news ema nated from a Board of Hearings and Appeals within the Depart ment of Energy and cost us taxpay ers over two dollars just to be delivered .to our front door. After wading through a stack of official looking papers, I finally deduced that a claim our accoun tant had filed for a gas-overcharge was being accepted. The claim was allowed under a decision made some time ago that petroleum companies had over charged on crude products way back some years ago. 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Whatever. We have been awarded a grand total of $lB. Which is more than a fellow Pen nsylvanian who got $3. And less than the largest claim award - in our group - of $l4l to a Georgia producer. The 51 of us together will get back the sum total of $1,212. One wonders: how much did - and will - the federal government spend in legal fees, clerical help, administrative staff, offices, com puters, overtime, holiday pay, fringe benefits, pension - and post al charges -to get our $lB refund to us eventually? Remember, postage alone was over two bucks. And is that cost of refunding an overcharge being financed by the 15-ccnts per gallon we must pay - unfairly - for the next at least five months in an unlevied diesel tax? D’ya suppose I can deduct the cost of the dentist’s bill I’m gui .g to have from the effects of grilling my teeth?
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