Word: antitax
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...trial by fire, the personal stakes are high for the feisty former nine-term New York Congressman who vainly sought the Republican presidential nomination last year. The self-styled "progressive conservative" has long turned the neat trick of attracting right-wing support with his antitax, free- enterprise economic policies while urging his party to reach out to blacks by conceiving compassionate programs. He had hoped to turn HUD into a shining example of how his party could put capitalist tools to work easing the problems of the poor, spurring new development in the inner cities and providing housing...
...case last week when the bipartisan National Economic Commission met. Congress created the panel last December, hoping it would produce a consensus on deficit-trimming measures (and take the heat off Congress to do so). But the deliberations, hemmed in by untouchable Social Security benefits on one side and antitax sentiment on the other, have taken on a sense of futility...
Sponsored by the antitax crusader Paul Gann, who contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion, and Orange County Republican Congressman William Dannemeyer, the initiative would compel physicians, surgeons, blood banks and test sites to report to public health offices anybody turning up with the HIV virus. Moreover, reporting would be mandatory if there were merely "reasonable cause to believe" a person was infected. HIV carriers would be required to provide authorities with the names of those they might have caught the virus from or passed it to. Dannemeyer, who supported an earlier, unsuccessful ballot proposition requiring the quarantine of AIDS patients...
...advertising industry is outraged. "It's like taxation without representation," fumes Peter Diamandis, president of CBS Magazines. "If this were 1776," he says, "we'd be pouring tea into the Fort Lauderdale harbor." Instead, opponents have been pouring antitax messages into Martinez's political bailiwick. The Florida Association of Broadcasters has produced a 30-second television commercial attacking the tax as inflationary and providing the Governor's phone number for citizens who would like to complain personally. In addition, a number of media companies, including NBC, CBS and Time Inc., have canceled plans to hold conferences and conventions in Florida...
...beliefs have influenced the Klan and many other white supremacist groups. A prominent spokesman for the movement is William P. Gale of the Ministry of Christ Church in Mariposa, Calif., once a member of General Douglas MacArthur's staff. Gale has worked closely with Posse Comitatus, a right-wing antitax organization active in the Midwest. In 1983, Posse Comitatus Member Gordon W. Kahl and two others murdered a pair of federal marshals who were trying to serve him with a warrant in North Dakota. Kahl was killed when his stores of ammunition exploded during a gun battle with police...