Word: antitaxer
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...easy to convince those such as Victoria Nikolov, one of two people elected to the Irvington school board with the endorsement of a local antitax group: "Schools are very important, but it's never been proven that throwing money at education improves it," Nikolov says...
Bill Clinton should have known his energy tax was in jeopardy when lobbyists who opposed it offered the people of Billings, Montana, a free lunch of cold cuts and chocolate cake. Citizens for a Sound Economy, a Washington antitax group, placed full-page ads earlier this month in the Billings Gazette, inviting residents to a noon rally to learn the evils of the President's proposed tax on the heat content of fuels. More than 150 people -- a virtual mob by Big Sky standards -- gathered at a downtown hotel to hear a Washington economist explain that the tax would cost...
...budget proposal headed to a House vote, Bill Clinton fended off assaults in Congress from his own party. Fearing an antitax backlash among voters, moderate and conservative House Democrats demanded more spending cuts, in particular caps on Medicare, Medicaid and other entitlement programs. Clinton tried to put down the revolt at a meeting with the House Democratic caucus and the party congressional leadership. "If you'll go out on a limb," he told them, "I'll go out with you." But a more dangerous mutiny began in the Senate, where a bipartisan group led by Democrat David Boren of Oklahoma...
...City, New Jersey, five days after the Houston convention, Bush said, "The big point I want to make in this working state is high spending and higher taxes will not do any favors to the American worker." Though Bush helped to almost double the deficit in four years, his antitax , message, says g.o.p. state director Palatucci, "is one that we're going to make over and over again. The contrast on taxes is what's giving us our legs right...
...people turned out at an antitax rally. When you ventured into the crowd, you were spat on and the state police had to hustle you away...