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...showdown over the fiery issue approaches, some grim facts account for its support. Californians already endure one of the nation's highest state sales taxes: 6%. Because the stiff state income tax is withheld, it is relatively painless. But property taxes must be paid in a lump sum twice a year-and this hurts. Moreover, since 1971, property has been taxed at rates ranging from 3% to 3.5% of real market value, and that value has been soaring; many homes have tripled or quadrupled in value in the past five years. Homeowners' incomes have not nearly kept pace...
...Pentagon, and about the people behind the door, who are generals and admirals and Cabinet members, and about the object of the games they play, which generally have a lot to do with wiping out foreign civilizations. And then the realization hits you, like a hard icy lump in the pit of your stomach. The friendly folks who brought you Vietnam and Cambodia are back for more good times...
...state taxes that have been growing explosively in recent years (see chart). The nibbles from those taxes come a little at a time every day or every payday and thus seem less aggravating. Only the property tax looms up once a year (or sometimes once a quarter) as a lump-sum payment of hundreds or thousands of dollars. As such, it is an easy target for people who often feel that the very homes they live in are being threatened...
...serialization rights for a total of $1 million to more than 40 newspapers and magazines round the world, authorized those customers to rush into print four days before the official release date. Times editors reluctantly printed the paper's five-part series of Ends excerpts in one hasty lump and accused the Post of excerpt envy. (The Post had been prevented from buying rights to the book because the Washington Star had first bids, as a regular Times Syndicate customer.) Said a top executive of the parent Times Co.: "Officially, we're pissed." The ill feelings...
...Hullo, I just found a lump of coal...