Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is a serious philosophy of government. One thing it is not, though, is small government. Politically, compassionate conservatives try to have it both ways: they're reducing the burden of government (unlike liberals), and they're addressing society's problems (unlike traditional conservatives). It's certainly wonderful to be told, as a voter, that you can show your concern about the nation's have-nots, about the nation's moral values and so on by accepting a tax cut. But government-by-tax-credit is still government. It's "letting people keep more of their own hard-earned money...
...that Bush's plan "is going to be significantly different from what the Republicans are doing now." Of course, the Texas Governor wants to cut taxes for the middle and upper classes, but sources tell TIME his plan will feature a series of proposals aimed at lowering the tax burden on families earning between $12,500 and $30,000 a year. When poor families begin to make more money, they gradually lose benefits like housing subsidies and the Earned Income Tax Credit, which is designed to lift low-income workers out of poverty. As benefits are phased out and income...
...inspiration of comic-book artiste Bob Burden to answer these ornate rhetorical questions. He created, in his Mystery Men stories, "a bizarre hodge-podge crew of second string, blue collar, milltown heroes." Now Burden's words are made flesh in a movie version that, for all its fights and stuff blowing up, dares to deflect action-adventure expectations to pursue off-kilter character comedy...
...bill also contains a number of provisions designed to ease the burden of financing higher education...
...there really is a Kennedy curse, by now it may be nothing more complicated than the burden of growing up under the weight of the family legend. The third generation of Kennedys once included 29 cousins. Like his sister Caroline, John Jr. managed to carry his celebrity lightly, acknowledging the claims of his ancestry without being burdened by them. He even went to Brown University to avoid the mythic baggage of being a Kennedy at Harvard. And many of the Kennedy cousins inherited the public-spiritedness of their parents' generation. Bobby's daughter Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is Maryland's Lieutenant...