Word: federales
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Various support programs for the middle and upper classes are also humming along nicely. Large-scale farmers and well-to-do retirees still enjoy federal largesse, as do oil companies and people earning more than $200,000 (whose income is taxed at a 28% marginal rate, while a working couple...
But a TIME poll last week indicated increasing, if still rather vague, doubts about the future. Moreover, signs of strain are beginning to show at the state and local levels. State officials generally find their constituents as opposed to new local taxes as they are to the federal kind, except...
In De Kalb County, Ga., however, voters last month overwhelmingly rejected a 1% hike in the local sales tax, even though it was intended to offset part of the property tax. De Kalb's chief executive officer, Manuel Maloof, bemoans the deterioration of the federal highways and Washington's unwillingness...
Citizen initiatives can be an example of democracy at work. But in this case they are symptomatic of governmental decay at all levels. Once a great engine of social and economic improvement, the Federal Government began to lose its bearings in the '60s and '70s in the midst of wars...
Bush benefits from the small appetite for rapid change. More than 60% say things are going well in the country, and 90% say things are going well in their personal affairs. Yet the Government gets scant credit for this: 60% say they trust Washington "only some of the time." Asked...