Word: hike
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House bill provides for a 7.9 percent cost-of-living hike by January. On Jan. 1, 1991, a 25 percent raise would be given--on top of whatever cost-of-living increase is given to rank-and-file civil servants at that time...
...House Republicans suggested that Bush take Kirkland's proposals seriously. Fighting the hike had become embarrassing for Republican lawmakers since they had energetically backed a cut in the capital gains tax that would mainly benefit wealthy investors. They warned that another veto might be overridden. "We don't need to be known as the party that squeezed the last penny out of the minimum wage," said Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole. After the Administration signaled its agreement, the measure passed the House by a vote of 382 to 37. Quick approval is expected in the Senate, and the President could...
Michigan decided the fate of two competingplans to raise the state sales tax for education,one calling for a half-penny increase and theother for a two-cent hike...
...would be required. The Governor is expected to call the state legislature into special session in another week or so to decide how much more relief is needed and how to pay for it. It is hard to see how any significant amount could be made available without a hike in either sales or gasoline taxes. Deukmejian, who has taken a Bush-like antitax position, said last week that such a boost "would be a last resort...
Some observers said that because the governor has already announced he will retire in 1990, he does not have to worry about the voters' reactions to a tax increase. Barbara Anderson, director of Citizens for Limited Taxation (CLT), has threaatened to sponsor a referendum repeal effort against a tax hike. CLT organized Proposition...