Word: frees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...partner at the investment firm Touche Ross said, "Any time the after-tax consequences are greater, management looks harder at expenses." In other words, if Maison Robert's corporate customers couldn't deduct their $16 desserts, Maison Robert would have to lower its prices. That's what the free market is all about...
...corporate America just can't break its addiction to taxpayer-financed perks, whether they contribute to good business or not. I will believe that American corporations are serious about their free-market rhetoric on the same day they refuse to take their market distorting T and E deductions...
Democrats should jump on this potent issue before the Republicans claim it. Under Reagan, both the Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget proposed limiting T and E deductions. If Democrats are serious about favoring the working class and opposing corporate free-loaders, they should eliminate the T and E deduction entirely...
...Soviet empire is disintegrating so quickly and in so many ways that * neither Moscow nor Washington has been able to adjust its policies fast enough to keep up with events. Last week, while the East German regime went into free fall, nationalists in the Estonian parliament prepared to consider a resolution that explicitly challenges the legitimacy of Soviet rule and implicitly raises the possibility of an eventual declaration of independence...
...Baltic dilemma. The American government never accepted the Soviet annexation of the republics 49 years ago. To this day, the State Department recognizes "legations" of anti-Communist emigres as the "representatives of the last free and legal governments" of their captive homelands. American diplomats have long avoided traveling to the Baltic capitals of Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius, since going there requires Moscow's permission...