THE SHOE TAX BECKONS

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Approved For Release 2011/03/17: CIA-RDP87B00858R000300440015-9 September 4, 1985 C(Ji?IGRESSION/ L CORD - Extension of Remarks Parliament that a "global campaign" was necessary for democracy's survival and growth. He urged a coordinated effort by the major Western democracies, not only to foster democracy elsewhere but to rejuve- nate the commitment to democracy within Western societies. The promotion of democracy poses risks. Democracy reflects a specific historical ex- perience and no one should expect all de- mocracies to develop the same way. The promotion of democracy may look to some like interference in another country's do- mestic affairs. Also, proponents of democra- cy sometimes attempt to establish demo- cratic institutions in countries that lack the social and economic structure to support them. Democracies function best where there is a pluralists structure of private en- terprise, educational institutions, labor unions, and other professional and interest groups. Furthermore, there is need for cau- tion in supporting individuals who claim to back democracy. Sometimes these same leaders later adopt anti-democratic meth- ods. The U.S. already has taken significant steps to promote the spread of democratic values. In 1983. Congress established the National Endowment for Democracy, which seeks to promote and support Initiatives from the two major U.S. political parties, labor organizations, business groups, and university foundations. It also assists the work of other government-supported offices like the U.S. Information Agency, the Voice of America, and Radio Free Europe. Political party foundations in several Western countries have also assisted the growth of democracy through their support of counterpart political parties in southern Europe and Latin America. U.S. political parties are not as Ideological as their Euro- pean counterparts, but they are also begin- ning to promote and assist the development of political parties in countries struggling to strengthen their democratic systems. Co- ordinated policies supported by several countries will have a greater chance of suc- cess, and can give support to all democratic parties in a nation rather than just one. U.S. development assistance can also help strengthen democratic institutions. Many democracies now face serious debt problems and their survival will depend In part on how we can help them through this period. Several other democratic countries have sig- nificant development assistance programs. These programs help address social and eco- nomic deprivation and help nurture political and cultural Institutions that enhance de- mocracy. To realize these goals, the U.S. needs to reassess the present imbalance in its aid program favoring military assistance, which does little to foster the emergence of domestic conditions favoring democracy. Another step the U.S. and its sister de- mocracies can take Is to respect the political independence and territorial integrity of sovereign states. Promoting the overthrow of governments because their principles and system do not conform to democratic ideals will not aid the cause of democracy. Demo- cratic governments will help their cause most by following accepted international rules and using the tools of diplomacy. Finally, the most important step we can take to assist democracy is to live up to our own ideals. Democratic societies are on trial before the world as they address equal op- portunity in education and employment, and such Issues as drugs, crime and other less attractive aspects of free and individual- istic societies. They are rightly judged not just by the freedoms and opportunities they provide for the most capable, but also by the compassion they show to those least able. Each step taken by democracies to E 3845 make Aeties a better place to live competition ought to determine the will ae sa f of the value of democrat future of the industry, allowing smarter, k gov more flexible domestic producers to find their niche in a market dominated by low- cost third-world producers. Indeed, the THE SHOE TAX BECKONS growth of the American economy depends HON. PHILIP M. CRANE or ILLINOIS IN THE HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, September 4, 1985 Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, by September 1, President Reagan has to make a decision in regards to the International Trade Com- mission's [ITC] recommendation to impose quotas on imported footwear. I recently co. signed a bipartisan congressional letter to President Reagan urging him to take into consideration the interests of the American public as a whole and reject the footwear quotas. The effect that the quotas would have on American families, especially the elderly and the low-income consumers, must be weighed into this decision. Quotas would slap a hidden tax on consumers that would drive up shoe prices, costing consumers bil- lions of extra dollars and they would re- strict the freedom that Americans enjoy of purchasing whatever shoes they want and can afford. Over half the shoes sold in America retail for under $15 and they are virtually all imported. Quotas cost money- and the people who would pay the price of protectionism would be those least able to afford it. The ITC estimates that the shoe quota would cost the US. consumer $50,000 per year for each $14,000 a year job that is saved. In terms of overall dollars, it would result in at least a $1.5 billion per year extra burden on the American consumer. Mr. Speaker, in this case, the cost of re- straints is too high and the benefits to the domestic shoe manufacturing industry too negligible to warrant any such action. i am submitting the following article on its gradual shift from low-wage, labor-in- tensive to high-wage, high productivity in- dustries that can sustain rising living stand- ards. What's good for most Americans, of course, isn't necessarily good for those who own or work in shoe factories. Of the re- maining U.S. producers, the most marginal couldn't possibly survive open world compe- tition. Even the most productive would ben- efit from protection. From the Carter Ad- ministration they got temporary quotas on imports from Taiwan and Korea. briefly halting the industry's decline. To the shoe makers' dismay, President Reagan chose to Interpret "temporary" to mean just that; quotas were allowed to lapse in 1981. Last year the International Trade Com- mission, an independent Federal agency, denied the shoe makers' petition for import relief, citing the high profitability of the more modern shoe companies. So the indus- try went back to work the new-fashioned way: lobbying Congress. That changed the commission's mind, and for an obvious reason. The shoe makers speak with a single voice and can point to job losses in 48 states. Thus their influence in politics far exceeds their importance to the economy. The Senate Finance Committee insisted that the Trade Commission reconsider. This time around the commissioners voted 4 to 1 for a plan that would limit imports to 60 percent of the market saving an estimat- ed 26,000 jobs. By the reckoning of the one dissenting commissioner, that would cost consumers $1.28 billion a year, three times the wages of those 26,000 workers. To resist, President Reagan may need more than arguments. Though plainly de- voted to free trade, he has already yielded expensive import relief to the clothing, steel and motorcycle industries. A nation benefit- ing from open trade needs to offer some- thing better than protectionism to workers and communities caught in the tides of in- dustrial change. But that Is a policy prob- lem that Washington has never taken seri- from the New York Times, appropriately ously. titled, "The Shoe Tax Beckons." Although the quotas would be aimed at protecting LET'S IMPROVE OUR COUNTER- the domestic shoe industry, they would be INTELLIGENCE CAPABILITY doing so by in effect adding an extra tax to the current price of shoes. The article fol- lows. THx SHox TAx BscaoNs The U.S. International Trade Commis- sion, yielding to pressure, recommends quotas that would reduce imports of shoes sharply and drive up their price. President Reagan must now decide whether consum- ers should finance this remedy, saving American jobs at an annual cost of $50,000 each. HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD Or MICHIGAN IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, September 4, 1985 Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, our Government must do more to expand and professionalize our Nation's counterintelli. gence programs. Congress has been sup- this effort and has made addi- portive of Shoes offer a model study in what's wrong Shoes protectionism, and why it's so hard to tional resources available. Given the dra- matic rise in espionage directed against our stop. Manufacturing inexpensive shoes requires Government and the private sector, much only simple machinery and abundant low- more needs to be done to counter this cost labor. That is why Brazil. South Korea, growing threat to America's security. I United States. Their competition has forced colleagues in the House. American manufacturers to retrench, clos- While all Americans are both worried ing two-thirds of their plants in the last 15 and disturbed about the recent Walker spy years. Many of the remaining plants are cage, it is important to realize that our profitable only because they produce high- Government can do more to limit the quality shoes, whose style is more important than price and whose main competition spying activities of foreign intelligence comes from high-cost factories in Europe. services in this country. It is incredulous Approved For Release 2011/03/17: CIA-RDP87B00858R000300440015-9 Approved For Release 2011/03/17: CIA-RDP87B00858R000300440015-9 ,h E 3846 C30NGRFSSIONAi. RECORD '` ~ oiar of ~'' '~to ber4, 1985 that the Federd Sure" of Iavadigation, out to work for other they He cited recent reports of bugged type- the aeeacy responsible for ceuwtesintelli- may have fuwed*ated or whose operations writers to the V.d. >smbsssy in Moscow and gsooe ope racism M Yne Unites States. is they may have challenged. The result. the hiring Of fardgn Personnel in the s m- unievmarmed in the evantetitntlelligence Wallop said. is a too casual effort, in which bars7. -rho 800013 (emplo WI haW the the tough questions we not asked about the run of the first five tiooas of oar essbsssy In area. I understand that the eon deresplo- credibility of agents, operation or even Moscow.' he said.' Itls ridiculmm" nage eapa6311ties of other agencies In our technics] systems. Hamilton said, "The Soviets do have ex- Government could be upgraded with the in. Although few others are so critical. inter. traordtnary technical *11k to penetrate our troduction of more resources to include sd. views with current and former intelligence embassies and secure buildings and a Pin- ditional personnel specializing in this ha- officials suggest that the Reagan adndnh- ton guard from the local plant lust Isn't area tratioa's strong words shout counterintelli- aware of what ties up against. Training and p A key donut of this question is Smiting gence have often been matched only by skins are critical. People have to be schooled the number of foreign intelligence opera. half-stepL in the techniques of modern espionage." President Reagan said In a radio speech In The Senate Intelligence committee, for ex- tives in the United States. While it is possl? June that "we've developed a riot of things ample, reported earlier this year that a ble for the FBI to monitor the movements to be accomplished is the counterintellt- Soviet facility at (lien Cove. N.Y.. Is be- of some Soviet intelligence personnel as- gene and security areas-' He has signed Hewed to be intercepting so many U.B. tele- signed to their Embassy in Washington. two secret directives to stuft and act on the phone and telex messages that it requires hundreds of Soviet personnel assigned to counterintelligence puob]e . but little of the shipment of tons of material to Moscow the United Nation's Secretariat in New substance has been accomplished because of each year. The National Security Agency bureaucratic resistanm several sources said has embarked on a major program to pro- ' York have free seem to ai! Snares and A separate directive to revamp personnel se? cities in the United States. Among United eurity policies has been langulshint without Nations employees, the large Soviet delega- action for more than It year. tion has the reputation of not doing much agFts~ho are rem counterintelligence FBI ~neaUy official United Nations work. They appsr- speed of Plonage operations in the United States- ing around the e United States tea literally al-? has been added to recent budgets. but only ng ar over the objections of admintstrattoa budget phoning up saluadde intelligence Informs. officers. There are now about 1.200 CI tion. It is understood that the Soviets cal- agents in the FBI, sources said. But they are left so mach iadorsnation that they tuve still outnumbered. and squads of inexpert- real difficulties in sorting, processing and eased clerks have been used for years to collating much of It. Fortunately, Congress help keep track of potential foreign agents is moving ahead and passing legislation de. to at lust four major cities. signed to limit the number of Soviets who ntnistraUsin spokeesnnel declined to are assigned to their Esabassy and to their speak on the record about the counterintel- U.N. delegation. ligence issue. But several members of Con- (D- With those aomcerns in mind, I commend grew did. Rep. Lee Hamilton C mmi. chat n man of the permanent Select Committee o n the following article to my colleagues in Intelligence, said 'sometimes It takes a the House. Obviously, we cannot do enough strong blow across the snout," such is the to protect America's security. The time for Walker caw, to to focus get one a administration problem. - clans. and action is now. clans, including myself. are responding to Concanse AGscxns C3.ssa Ovxs it." he said. CI The broad definition of counterintelli- u.nwiu EMS CA araaursxxArlou srPoxt's Bence means protecting the nation's docu- ments. communications and secret facilities WE!-x from penetration. To most people. however, (By Charles Babcock) ncutuiterintelliffence means the otuff of spy ovels, the American agent trying to stop the spring of 1 1984, Son ilimte the KGB from recruMug a U.S. spy or Wallop W rya) received a spy In place. naming him an "honorary ary aIntelligence a na te certtificate The main responsibility Is split between gence specialist" . The e Inthe was Central said ta to be in re the CIA. which keeps track of foreign Intel- nition .T his award efforts to establish ligence agents overseas, and the FBI, which notion tonamous of career counterintish tea llig semenence - does the same in the United States. (13- (CI) specialists lore ag Hamilton and Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (1} (CI) then to cht the heairmaaenof the Senate In. Vt), vice chairman of the Select Coomlittee Wallop, tellince budget subcommittee, , was neither as on Intelligence. said long-term solutions are honooreed rd mar required, In addition to the increased use of hon amused. "The CIA ridiculed the career specialist polygraphs and imposing the death penalty by giving me the award." he said in an Inter- on military personnel for peacetime espio- view. "It was designed In total cynicism, tinge, the two measures passed by Congress with little boys laughing behind doors" so far. So he wrote, and Congress approved, Ian- Hamilton said the least expensive and guage in the classified intelligence agencies' most Instant step to protect national se- authorization bill report for fiscal 1985 -re- ciets would be enforcing the "need to know" qulring the CIA to reestablish Cl as a career policy. "A security clearance shouldn't enti- service. It still has not been done, he and tle anyone to am anything. Someone should it for his job " d f h . e nee s other tome sources say. have access only I Doing something about counterintel.li? A theme in much of the criticism is that cause of the Angleton legacy. "IL was se gence has been a hot topic since accusations counterintelligence is net viewed as a path easy for (DeputY CIA Director) John in May that alleged spy John A. Walker Jr. to career promotion at the CIA or FBI, or McMahon to talk Bill Casey out of my idea and others for years had passed D.S. Navy the State Department, where security has of multidisciplinary analysis on the basis of long been a low priority. Jim Angleton. which was totally irrelevant. secrets to the Soviets. To Wallop ann ctother Reg Dave McCurdy (D-Okla.), chairman To Bill's credit he later came around to the ctics Rea on th,e the soeci list" s man date r reflects oa a of the House intelligence oversight subcom- argument I was mating. But when it was broader the "CI of commitment man mittee that has been holding closed hear- first presented Angleton was thrown up.*' the fn's b coma protect to improving ims on counterintelligence, said he feels the The first Reagan presidential directive to the nation's ability to protect secrets from biggest security problem is at the State De- take action an the Cl front was drafted by fo...This hagents country." Wallop He said CIA Director William J. the National Security Council staff in 1981. bias virtual- part iysero counterintelligence ence capability.*' p. apability... Casey had accepted a recommendation by But some senior career intelligence officials Be argued that the CIA's counterinteTh- an internal CIA commission to give more In- lobbied to change the order to a study, gence system is Inadequate because the offi- dependence to the CI staff there. "It's fine- sources said cep's now working in it will someday rotate tuning at CIA," McCurdy said. "It's trying NSA, which intercepts foreign communi- to stop a flood at State." cations and attempts to break the coded s vide more scrambler phones for the nation military and intelligence communications systems. Rep. Andy Ireland also a member of the House committee. blamed the lack of concerted action on "bureaucratic inertia Sometimes there are no many facets of a problem people are mesmerized Into doing nothing." The administration's uneven record on counterintelligence seems. at least In part. the result of longstanding and deeply felt differences about the best way to counter foreign spying here and abroad Melvin Beck. a CIA agent who shadowed KGB agents in Havana and Mexico City in the 1960s and has written a book about it. said he thought the experience was ungla- morous and silly. Installing a microphone In a KGB officer's apartment resulted only in hours of tapes about his family life, not his spying. he said. "It's all a big game for both sides." Counterintelligence is also an emotional issue because it amounts at times to spying on colleagues to a secret world where rela- tionships must be based an trust. Mention of the name James J. Angleton, deposed a decade ago as chief of the CIA's counterin- telligence staff, still generates controversy because of accusations that he unfairly wrecked the careers at some CIA officers he suspected of being Soviet moles. In 1980. then-Director Stanfield Turner convinced Congress to approve a special fund to compensate CIA officers considered victimized by Angleton. Angleton supporters argue that any steps he recommended were approved by his superiors. Wallop and others say an environment must be created in which intelligence infor- mation can be challenged and all potential security risks assessed. "There's an Inherent dislike on the part of Intelligence profes- sionals to be second-guessed." Wallop said. adding that the CIA needs "the skeptical guy on the block." Wallop said his ideas for changing coun- terintelligence at the CIA weren't easy to Approved For Release 2011/03/17: CIA-RDP87B00858R000300440015-9 Approved For Release 2011/03/17: CIA-RDP87B00858R000300440015-9 September 4, 1985 CC GRESSIONAL RECORD - Extensio-. messages of other nations, opposed sugges- tions that It had not rigorously addressed the possibility the Soviets were passing false Information through Its t cbnk al collection 4ystema NSAs reluctance saw come about because billions of dollars and careers are invested in U.S. technical aystesos, Wallop said. When the study was completed, a new action order was dratted. As a result, a new national intelligence officer for deception was created in late 1993. A former head of the CIA's overhead photo interpretation center. R.P. (Hap) Hazzard, was picked for the fob. But executive branch and congres. sfonal sources said that little else was done. When the directives failed to get much action;, Wallop led the fight to write part of the counterintelligence agenda into the fiscal 1985 Intelligence authorization bill. Besides the Cl career specialty. he got the Votes to order the agencies to set up units to conduct 'Multidisciplinary counterintelli- gence atrslyais " Usually in *ntelligenoe work, an intercept- ad communication or agent report that tends to confirm something in satellite pho- tography would be taken as corroboration and, the more varied the sources, the more credence the conclusion would be given. The multidisciplinary counterintelligence ap- proach would look at the same material for signs that it bad been intentionally planted. One Intelligence official Lmiliar with the idea said the CIA does make a good-faith effort to look for deception but often can't find the evidence "Some things you just have to believe or you will put a caveat on everything you sty and then you might as well go out of business," be said Wallop said, The two things in the '85 budget. the career slot and the multidiscipli- nary analysis are still not effective creations ... To date the effort has been accommodation rather than commitment. It simply cannot succeed as an accommoda- tion." Wallop added that recent congressional attempts to strengthen counterintelligence "are literally cosmetic, absent a amore seri- ous effort. The death penalty is not a ootm- terintelti?enee policy. It can clearly be useful as a deterrent and It satisfies the na- tional mood to be outraged ... But It still isn't at the core of the problem." The best way to aid the FBI is not simply to increase the number of counterintelli- gence agents, several experts agreed, but to try to shrink the problem by cutting the number of Soviets in this country or putting greater restrictions on their travel. An amendment sponsored by Leahy and Sen_ William S. Cohen (R-Maine) to snake Soviet and U.S. diplomatic missions more equal in size was passed by Congress late last week. So was a proposal by Sen. William V. Roth Jr. (R-Del) to limit the travel of Soviet nationals who work for the U.N. sec- retariat in New York. Roth, a member of the intelligence com- HON. ROY DYSON OF auaTl.A7ro IP THE HOUSE OF RETR=SffiRATIVES Wednesday, September d, 1985 Mr. DYSON. Mr. Speaker, the following article appeared In the News American no Monday. July 29. 1985. 1 tiled it is worth re- peating. At first blush the Senate's proposal to Impose a $5 per barrel tax on imported oil sounds like a great revenue raiser--and a way to reduce the national deficit. Its esti- mated that the fee and the resultant In- creased costs on refined products would yield about $20 billion over the next three years. Right away there Is a problem with the White House, because President Reagan still is Insisting that the way to cut the defi- cits Is not to raise taxes but to reduce feder- al spending. The president hasn't reacted to the Senate's proposal so far, but a senior White House official said It would take "a big horse pill to get him to swallow this. But the Senate's proposal has a number of economists concerned about the overall negative impact on the economy. For one thing, some economists claim. the higher tax on energy would affect in- dustry as well as motorists and bomeown- en, and there would be a resultant slower growth in the gross national product., off- setting much of the gain from the increased taxes. Also, oil prices have come down, and If they come down further inflation likely would fall and real economic growth would increase. Faster growth would in turn In- crease Federal revenues. There is a further concern that with the $5 fee increasing the price of crude oil and natural gas in the United States but not in other countries the domestic oil industry would be placed in an unfavorable competi. tive position with other parts of the world. Other economists have found these argu- ments, debatable, but the point is that the Senate, in what appeared to be an easy way to raise revenues. has opened by an eco- nomic Pandora's Box. It may be President Reagan will reject the proposal outright. But if he doesn't it would behoove the Senate to take a far deeper look into the possible results before going ahead. HIGH TECHNOLOGY ACTIVE BUSINESS ACT OF 1985 HON. FORTNEY H. (PETE) STARK Or cALrloaxIa IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mittee, said that with 4.3 million Americans Wednesday, September 4, 1985 with security clearances "the best choke point is on the other side-better control of Mr. STARK Mr. Speaker, on High Tech- those on the Soviet Ode." Be noted that the July Bl. 19ti5. I Introduced the High Tech- committee issued a report In May charging aology Active Business Act of 1985, which that 200 of the 800 Soviet U.N. employees was designed to eliminate problems associ- were intelligence officers. sled with the imposition of personal hold- "The good news," Leahy said. "is that as a irtg company tax on small software eompa- rault of the Walker case and others, people riles. Because of the interest that this legis- are actually focusing on this and the admin- ration has generated, I am printing in the istration and CoWeas will look for long- RsCORD a detailed description of that legis- term solutions." _ lation. J Remarks E 3847 Dernnsa DzsarrrrIoo or THE "Hscia Tsxaneot.ocy Ac?rvtc Btrsnefa Acr or 1985" 1. Treatment for Personal Holding Compa- ny Tax Purposes of Computer Software Royalties Derived by Active Businesses (Sec. t of the Act). A. Basic Problem: Imposition of the Per- sona] Holding Company Penalty Tax on Closely-Held Software Companies. The basic problem to that small software development companies often possess the characteristics that can trigger application of the personal holding company penalty tax provisions (i) The stock of the company is generally held by relatively few shareholders who participate directly in the software develop- ment; and (ii) Once developed. the corporation's soft- ware product Is transferred to others by means of a license to a particular computer manufacturer or other customer or via a so- called "box-top" license to the public (under which the retail customer agrees to the li- cense merely by opening the wrapper of the software package). The use of a license is necessary to protect the developer's proprie- tary Interest In the software. This form of transfer has been viewed by the I.R.S. as giving rise, at least In many cases. to passive royalty income deemed to be personal hold- ing company Income. See Private Letter Ruling 8450025 (September 7, 1984). Howev- er. these companies clearly are engaging in active, ongoing business activities, including the development of new and improved soft- ware and maintenance activities with re- spect to existing software products. The personal holding company penalty tax provisions were adopted to prevent the Incorporation of passive Investment activi- ties at a time when corporate tax rates were significantly lower than the top individual rates. Accordingly, the application of the personal holding company provisions to Software development companies conduct- ing substantial active, ongoing business op- erations produces an unintended and ex- tremely harsh result. B. Exclusion for Computer Software Roy- alties Derived by an Active Business. The Act adds a new exclusion from the definition of personal holding company income for computer software royalties that are derived by the corporation from the active conduct of a trade or business. C. Standard for Computer Software Roy- alties from an Active Business. For purposes of the new exclusion, com- puter software royalties will be treated as derived from the active conduct of a trade or business if the corporation satisfied the following objective tests. (1) The royalties must be attributable to computer software that has been. (a) Developed, manufactured, or produced (in whole or substantial part) by the corpo- ration in connection with a trade or busi- ness; or "Developed, manufactured, or produced.. is intended to include software that has been created by the corporation and soft- ware that has been purchased from another person for inclusion in a software or com- bined hardware-software product of the cor- poration. "In connection with a trade or business" is intended to mean software that the corpor- tion has developed or acquired for nee in a present or future business, so as to include software that has been developed during the corporation's start-up phase. "Corporation (or Its predecessor)" is in- tended to reach the case in which the soft- ware is developed by a partnership that con- verts Into a corporation once development has been completed and marketing is to Approved For Release 2011/03/17: CIA-RDP87B00858R000300440015-9