Word: burdens
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Though Nixon makes no such dramatic admission of error as he had in his televised interviews with David Frost ("I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden with me for the rest of my life"), he does admit that all his public speeches about his Watergate role as he fought to stay in office "were not explanations of how a President of the United States could so incompetently allow himself to get in such a situation. That was what people really wanted to know...
...produce an immediate cut of as much as 60% in property taxes for homeowners, but it could create mind-boggling distortions in the entire property market: the longer a person holds on to a home as inflation keeps driving up its value, the greater becomes the eventual property-tax burden that the new owner will acquire. As a result, two identical homes on the same street could have wildly different taxes. That does not seem to worry the state's growing legions of tax rebels, however. A victory for Jarvis-Gann would give enormous new momentum to tax revolts...
Property taxes constitute the biggest nonfederal tax burden for most families. From 1953 to 1975, the property-tax bite on an average family's income grew from $110 to $560, and for families with twice the average income it increased from $180 to $896. On top of that, homeowners must also pay Social Security and a whole range of other state taxes that have been growing explosively in recent years (see chart). The nibbles from those taxes come a little at a time every day or every payday and thus seem less aggravating. Only the property tax looms...
Carter personifies the resurgence of the white South which began about 1971. The memory and burden of Tobacco Road are purged by his work ethic and clean living. He is John-Boy Walton grown...
...that companies are usually unwilling to offer even small wage increases when labor has no effective bargaining power, as is the case in South Africa today. Even if corporations have developed a little more consideration for morality since the era of the Robber Baron, would they willingly accept the burden of huge wage increases while their competitors still benefit from nearslave labor? If the Harvard corporation is not ready to assume financial losses for the sake of ethical considerations, how can we realistically expect other corporations with more at stake...