Word: checkoff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...open the field to candidates without big money connections, but also would lessen the significance of Political Action Committees and influential donors for those candidates who do rely on them. As in the public financing laws regulating presidential campaigns, such a measure would include matching funds provided by a checkoff on income tax returns and a cap on total expenditures...
...laws beneficial to Louisiana's oil and gas industry, which no doubt also benefited him, as he inherited considerable oil and gas stock from his father. Although Long was not a frequent sponsor of legislation, he was proud of the bills he did initiate. These included the voluntary tax checkoff provision for presidential campaigns and an earned income tax credit which helps the working poor. Asked to define a tax loophole, Long offered his famous dictum: "Something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform...
Swapping nongame animals is an outgrowth of a voluntary income tax "checkoff" program that began in Colorado in 1977. The provision allows citizens to earmark as much of their annual state tax refund as they like for wildlife conservation programs, which include transporting and monitoring animals that have been acquired from other states. Ecology-minded citizens have responded enthusiastically. For example, Michigan took in $490,000 last year, up from $272,000 when it began its program in 1983. Wisconsin collected $472,000, compared with $291,000 in 1983. "State agencies realize they have another constituency besides hunters and fishermen...
...Court let stand a National Labor Relations Board order permitting the A.C.T.W.U. to organize inside Stevens' plants, the company will pay about $3 million to workers in Roanoke Rapids in compensation for wage hikes withheld for the past 15 months. The A.C.T.W.U. also won promotion by seniority, a checkoff for union dues, better grievance procedures and arbitration of disputes. While the union may extend the contract to other Stevens plants where it wins elections or is declared bargaining agent by court order, it agreed not to recruit on company property for 18 months. The union also ended its four...