Word: antitaxers
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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...
...organized popular pressure to make the environment and nature a major political issue, it should be possible to do the same for education. If it is possible to make smoking despised, it should be possible for drug use. And it should be possible to refocus some civic crusades. The antitax movement was an important political force, but it was too blunt and undifferentiated. To reduce the excesses of government bureaucracy, it is not enough to curb its spending powers. It is far more important (and more difficult) to monitor performance and press for efficiency...
Such a public personality is especially vulnerable to the kind of failed smart-guy trick the change on tax policy represents. Bush cannot say that as a longtime antitax ideologue he has nevertheless decided to take one step back in order to go two steps forward. He does not have the cushion of principle to fall back on. All he had was a pledge, and the character of a man who kept his pledges. Now he has welshed on the pledge and is in danger of losing the character...
Evidence of antitax sentiment is still widespread, and not just in California. In Illinois a group of irate taxpayers is promoting a ballot initiative that would require tax increases to be approved by three-fifths of the state legislature instead of a simple majority. Earlier this year more than 1,000 property-tax protesters stormed the office of Kansas Governor Mike Hayden. Connecticut's Governor William O'Neill decided against running for a third term this fall partly because his poll numbers dropped sharply after he threw his support behind higher taxes...