Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that this year, as in every campaign since 1976, contenders are vying with one another to invent the most artful ways to beat the cap. Almost all direct mail to undecided Iowa voters, for example, comes with an awkward postscript asking for contributions. The rationale: fund-raising appeals are exempt from the state spending caps...
...invitation to almost certain defeat. The prevailing ethos is to skirt the limits as aggressively as one dares. In Iowa, political operatives estimate that some campaigns in both parties will spend close to $2 million each, with many of the expenditures dubiously allocated to other states or exempt under federal loopholes. Even if campaign officials get caught, says Jim Lake, press secretary for the 1984 Reagan re-election effort, "at least they won't have to say they lost because they didn't spend enough...
...addition, the funding of Robertson's early political efforts is being investigated by the IRS. Michael McManus, a syndicated columnist specializing in religious issues, has documented $8.4 million that went from Robertson's tax-exempt Christian Broadcasting Network to now defunct "educational" groups like the Freedom Council, which allegedly paid for much of the TV preacher's initial political organizing. The Robertson campaign has not disputed McManus' figures, which were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. But Communications Director Constance Snapp says, "All monies given to the Freedom Council by CBN were perfectly legitimate from both a legal...
...progressive income taxes, we should have progressive Government benefits," Babbitt explains. "Why should the Mellons and the Vanderbilts get the same benefits as a widow living in a cold-water flat?" While cutting entitlement spending, Babbitt would impose a 5% "consumption" tax, basically a national sales tax, which would exempt necessities like food...
...ministry is also involved in a dispute over its tax-exempt status. Depending on how much of the operation is declared exempt, the IRS says, the PTL could owe as much as $82 million for unpaid taxes on business income from its Heritage U.S.A. theme park and other ventures...