Word: classing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least painful way of collecting money," over-looking the regressive nature of this tax. Long actually described the VAT as "somewhat like a hidden sales tax." By taxing consumption, the VAT insures that government will take larger chunks out of the earnings of lower and middle class citizens than out of the incomes of the rich. Representative Ullman tries to mitigate this inequity by taxing necessities such as food, housing and clothing at a rate of only 5 per cent. Yet this still raises the price of necessities for the poor, and it certainly doesn't permit...
...corporate profits tax to free still more money for investment. Evidently, Long and Ullman have overlooked the startling expansion of corporate profits in the past two years. In the name of productivity, they have opted for financing a rich man's corporate tax credit with the dollars of middle class American consumers...
Therefore, we concerned Iranian students attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University as a matter of principle, express our opposition to the aforementioned administrative decree. We will not report to the Immigration and Naturalization Services until the legulity of the order has been established. Class action suits regarding this decree have already been presented to the courts by the ACLU and others...
...Sakowitz's three-week vacation at Brenner's Park Hotel in Baden-Baden, West Germany, where health spa and beauty farm facilities are available and a Mercedes limosine will be on hand. To take the strain out of the trip to Germany, Sakowitz will reserve the entire first class section of a Lufthansa Airlines 747. The recipient of this gift will be the only person up front in the plane and the first on and off. For one person, the cost of the trip is $55,922. Excluding the exclusive air transportation expense, the price drops to a mere...
Richard C. Marius, director of the Expository Writing program, also wants "some good prose" for Christmas. Were the Class of '83 entirely composed of magnanimous Santa elves, he might...