Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson poll found that 24 percent of Harvard students thought that suspending civil liberties in time of war was justified. If so many people are ready to trash the Bill of Rights on account of the Gulf War, surely a majority would be willing to stomach a tax hike and some cuts in entitlements...
...Capitol Police officer told an anti-war heckler who briefly disturbed the rally to "take a hike." Later, when the heckler returned and yelled, "Support our troops, bring them home," to the marchers, he was met with cries of "traitor" and told to "get out of this country...
...feeble. Leaders of both parties raced to distance themselves from talk of new taxes as if the words were poisoned. While House Speaker Thomas Foley asserted that "it would be a mistake to put this entire cost on the next generation," he saw no chance for a tax hike. "I don't think we can put it aside categorically and never, ever think about it," the Washington Democrat said. "But there are no plans. There is no discussion...
...budget earmarks $6.15 billion for absorption, nearly as much as for defense, and imposes a 5% income-tax surcharge and a 2% increase in the value-added tax. For Israelis, many of whom already pay one-third of their average $12,500 annual income to the government, the tax hike is a serious sacrifice for Zionism...
...determine how to pay for unification. Current projections call for an expenditure of roughly $55 billion annually for the next four years for building infrastructure and providing social support in the eastern part of the country. In the months leading up to the election, Kohl resisted a tax hike, preferring instead to rely on spending cuts, the sale of public assets in western and eastern Germany, and large-scale borrowing. Few expect that the government will be able to follow this tack much longer; loading too great a burden on taxpayers, however, risks feeding internal west-east resentments that could...