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...been raised to offset inflation from being bumped into a higher tax bracket. For example, a family with taxable income of $30,000 this year will be able to earn $30,450 next year without its tax bill of $4,818 increasing. Without the new indexation, so-called bracket creep would have raised that family's 1985 taxes...
...waned. Walter Mondale has said that he is "committed to the principle" but has urged deferment of full indexation for wealthier taxpayers until the budget deficit is reduced. Republican Senator Robert Dole, chairman of the Finance Committee and a sponsor of tax indexing, hailed the elimination of bracket creep as a "day of triumph for all working Americans...
WHENEVER BARBARA Walters lets a solemn tone creep into her voice, I expect to hear something like "How has stardom treated you, Farrah?" It's been so long since the Million Dollar Journalist covered anything real that I wasn't sure she remembered how. But when her big chance for revived "hard news" exposure finally came, in the first Presidential debate last week, she managed at the same time both to misstate an important issue and overstate the purity of American political news coverage...
...glamor of the brick gates that open onto 218th St. But my father, who grew up in our house 25 years earlier, remembers a time when kids from the neighborhood used to go across the river into Manhattan and sneak around the field until they found a way to creep in. You could see some of the best teams in the country, then, and he still remembers 1947, when he was 10, and Columbia broke Army's 32-game winning streak...
HOWIE: You're history, creep! Don't mess with Howie Hip. SLOW FADE...