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...private -- about such strong women as Margaret Thatcher, Jeane Kirkpatrick and Roseanne. Colorado Representative Pat Schroeder, who pressed for an investigation of Tailhook, says she has been called the "Wicked Bitch of the West" for her trouble. T shirts trumpeting 1,952 Bulldogs and 1 Bitch greeted Shannon Faulkner when she enrolled at the all-male Citadel, where the mascot is a bulldog. Linguist Deborah Tannen, author of Talking from 9 to 5, says, "Bitch is the most contemptible thing you can say about a woman. Save perhaps the four-letter C word...
...Faulkner believes that because Question 7 is subject to amendments by the state legislature, tax bracket changes could be made that would eventually raise people's taxes...
...raising taxes on the rich won't get more money for Massachusetts, Faulkner says. "The eight percent will either move out of state or get a battalion of tax lawyers to protect their tax assets...
...Faulkner and his group would like to see the state's flat tax rate drop back to five percent and criticizes Question 6 and 7 supporters for not cutting middle class tax rates enough...
...would be nice to go back to the old rate of five percent," Faulkner says. "If [Tax Equity Alliance] is so serious about giving everyone a tax cut then why do they only cut the top rate by half of one percent? Why don't they go back down to five percent...