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...relying on increased "user fees" and "sin taxes" (on liquor and cigarettes) so popular among his peers. Instead he became the only Governor of this read-my-lips era to embrace the discarded notion of a progressive tax, which hits New Jersey's wealthiest residents hardest by doubling the bite on their income...
...dire they are scrambling to amend the Bill of Rights to stop it: the possibility that a handful of fringe showboats might desecrate the American flag. It is the paradigm of the age of escapist politics. No painful economic choices need be confronted. Considerations more complex than a sound bite can be dismissed. And it lends itself to the manipulation of what are in fact the deep and sincere values of a patriotic majority understandably repulsed by the sight of Old Glory being burned...
...have a balanced budget, deficits mean tax increases, spending cuts or both. Moreover, many states have been hiking taxes to make up for declining federal funds for clean water, job training, low-income housing and sewage treatment. Increased state and local taxes, as well as a larger Social Security bite, explain why, for all the ballyhoo over the Reagan-era tax cuts, Americans today pay roughly 22% of their income in taxes, just as they...
Aleksy, like all bishops who emerged during the Khrushchev-Brezhnev period, had to bite his lip and say nothing about the constant persecution of the church, but he managed to avoid outright dishonesty. A pre-election article by Aleksy in a church journal mingled traditional views with support of Gorbachev's reforms and ecological activism. In a sermon last month at the Valaam monastery, Aleksy eloquently lamented communism's mass murder of clergy and destruction of churches...
Sleepy dogs are not supposed to bite, but last week the unelected House of Lords displayed a few unexpected fangs. The peers voted overwhelmingly to block a war-crimes bill. The legislation, which would have permitted the prosecution of alleged Nazi war criminals living in Britain, had easily won approval in the House of Commons last March...