Word: antitaxer
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...country? Literally, it was neither; figuratively, it was both. That angry noise was the sound of a middle class tax revolt erupting, and its tremors are shaking public officials from Sacramento to Washington, D.C. Suddenly all kinds of candidates in election year 1978 are joining the chorus of seductive antitax sentiment, assailing high taxes, inflation and government spending...
...they worried about the possible impact of the landslide vote in California, even critics of the antitax movement expressed some sympathy for the psychology motivating the drive. "There's a tremendous paranoia sweeping the country," observed Amo DeBernardis, president of Oregon's multicampus, property-tax-supported Portland Community College. "People feel helpless about the way their government is headed, and this is the only way they can fight...
With that increase to egg him on, Glistrup kept up his antitax campaign, though he was scarcely, as he claimed to be, the most celebrated Dane since Hans Christian Andersen and Soren Kierkegaard. Before the court verdict was pronounced last week, the irrepressible tax dodger declared: "If you ask me what would crush my vitality, I believe it would be the judge's not-guilty verdict. That would hit me harder than a guilty verdict. My psychological power comes from fighting a battle in which I've been unfairly, horribly and absurdly treated." He got his wish...
...charge against Thomson for prowling through business tax records that involved his political opponents-a search that has since been declared illegal by the state's supreme court. Governor Thomson's opponent will be Democrat Richard Leonard, 55, a former state senator from Nashua and a fervent antitax man himself...
...Oklahoma-born investment banker who supported Goldwater in 1964, Kirk praises the outgoing Burns administration, while damning High with the same "ultraliberal" label that Burns used. Kirk promises an "antitax, probusiness" administration to promote the "American dream," says he will increase state revenue by $1.3 billion over two years by luring new industry with tax breaks. "The only thing that prospers in Miami," says Kirk, "is crime." Though he avoids civil rights as an overt issue, Kirk's constant emphasis on High's ideological ties with the Johnson Administration needs no decoding...