Word: antitax
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...recipients of the largesse that Abramoff could afford with his clients' money, exposure is a frightening prospect. House majority leader Tom DeLay, that luxury traveler, has already been burned by his association with Abramoff. The latest disclosures about the lobbyist's methods have dusted up two more Republican notables: antitax activist Grover Norquist and Christian conservative Ralph Reed. Their names came up in the thousands of e-mails released last week by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, which is investigating Abramoff. The fact that Abramoff-controlled tribal money found its way to the highest levels of conservative power...
...supporters of private savings accounts say that Bush, having decided to take the plunge, should go all the way. He's expected to propose allowing workers to put one-third of the 6.2% payroll tax that is deducted from their paychecks into individual accounts. But advocates like Gingrich and antitax activist Grover Norquist want to know, Why not more? "It's going to take exactly the same amount of energy," Gingrich says. "You are better off trying to get the largest possible account." However big the plan, Bush recognizes that the politics inside his party are daunting. "Part...
...highest-taxing countries in the world are in Western Europe: France, Belgium, Austria, Italy and the four Scandinavian countries - Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway. (Germany and Britain are further down the list, but still ahead of the U.S., Japan, Canada, Mexico and Australia.) This week, a French antitax group is taking out newspaper ads to celebrate "the day of tax liberation." Given the nation's tax burden, it calculates that the French work until July 16 - more than half the year - to pay the government; it's only thereafter that the money they earn goes into their pockets. Does...
...whom recently escaped). The annual cost to French taxpayers: €1.7 million, not including €610,000 for the château. The acquisition prompted the resignation of all 11 members of the Saint-Denis-le-Thiboult council - and became a cause célèbre among antitax campaigners. Contribuables Associés claims the French government wastes about €100 billion annually. That may be high, but it's indisputable that the French public service has swollen by about 30% since 1980, to the point where 1 in every 4.3 French citizens now works for the government...
Bush has united his party by employing a strategy that Grover Norquist, a White House ally and the president of Americans for Tax Reform, describes as "delivering on first-tier issues." For the fiercely antitax crowd, Bush supplied his $1.1 trillion tax cut in 2001. For those in the party who obsess over judicial nominations, this Bush has not disappointed as his father did. Bush picks nominees considered ideologically sound and understands the political value of fighting for those, like Charles Pickering and Priscilla Owen, labeled ultraconservative by Democrats. By sticking with his core supporters on the issues they care...