THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Monday, April 10, 1995                 TAG: 9504070020
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   26 lines

INVESTIGATE TAX CUTS

You are in favor of balancing the budget before effecting tax cuts (``Yes, cut deficit first,'' editorial, April 1). I believe that tax cuts can have the effect of increasing federal revenues and that those increased revenues can be applied to help balance the budget.

I challenge you to investigate the effect of President Reagan's early 1980s tax cuts upon federal revenues and to include your findings in an editorial. I further challenge you to determine and include in your editorial the reason that increased revenues failed to have the effect of reduced deficits.

You will find that the tax cuts significantly increased revenues and that Congress simply spent the increases rather than reducing the deficits.

CHARLES J. CARPENTER

Virginia Beach, April 4, 1995 by CNB