Word: antitax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what really gives Bush the creeps is the dark portents California holds for the future of the Republican Party. The whirlwind that the G.O.P. sowed nationally with its antitax campaigns -- and its neglect of highways, schools and other public services -- has touched down in California, battering Wilson and tearing the state G.O.P. apart. The antitax revolt that was started by California Republicans and culminated in Bush's "read my lips" campaign of 1988 has hardened voters so indiscriminately against taxes that those same Republicans can't govern after they're elected. Trapped in their own antitax rhetoric, they find that...
...politics aside, an activist like Clinton would be better placed than a conservative to push the "responsibilities" agenda. Most Republicans see government as "the problem"; their views are "trapped by their antitax and antigovernment rhetoric," says Conner. "When they talk about rights and responsibilities, the red flags go up. People see them as being demanding without being supportive, as wanting to take without being willing to give." On the flip side, adds Conner, in an analysis Clinton shares, "liberals are going to have to realize that the only way to generate public support for expanding the programs they see people...
Though the right-wing ideologues are not yet strong enough to destroy the Bush presidency, they are capable of inflicting political damage. Phillips and other conservatives, encouraged by the election of independent Walter Hickel as Governor of Alaska on an antitax platform last month, are organizing what they call the U.S. Taxpayers Party. Phillips concedes that the party lacks a "rallying point" so far. But the incipient revolt could drain off crucial Bush votes...
City Clerk Joseph E. Connarton says Flaherty was instrumental in finding state funds for Cambridge when the antitax measure Proposition 2 1/2 passed in 1980, threatening cities and towns with severe financial difficulties...
...Governor Douglas Wilder sees himself as one of the big winners of the November elections. Exit polls showed that 22% of black voters supported Republican candidates for the House, up from 14% in 1986 and 11% in 1982. Wilder calls these figures "alarming" and speculates that some blacks shared antitax sentiments with many middle-class whites. As both a black Democrat and a fiscal conservative, Wilder believes he is well positioned to lure the defecting voters back. That may explain why his political adviser, Paul Goldman, has registered a new PAC with the Federal Election Commission that can easily evolve...