Word: payes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most Congressmen detect no great excitement among their constituents about the Wright investigation. But the longer the affair drags on, and the more heavily the press and television focus on eventual public hearings, the more likely voters are to pay unfavorable attention. "This is no ten-kiloton violation," says Ted Van Dyk, a noted Washington political consultant. "But it's hard to convince the folks at home after Meese, Tower, Hart...
Since then, several state legislatures have attempted to test just what restrictions are allowable under Roe. The court has permitted states and the Federal Government to forbid the use of Medicaid funds to pay for abortions that are not necessary to preserve the mother's health. Most other state laws that restrict abortion have been rebuffed by the Justices, but by ever slimmer margins. In 1986, the last time the court took up an abortion case, only a 5- to-4 majority could be mustered to strike down a Pennsylvania "informed consent" law that required women seeking abortion...
...There will be a high political price to pay for being anti-choice," promises Gloria Allred, a Los Angeles attorney and women's rights activist. Predictions like that will come true, however, only if abortion is made into the kind of litmus test that it has already become for many pro-lifers. Can pro-choice supporters be made single-issue voters, who will elect a candidate who shares their views on abortion even if they disagree with him on defense, taxes or the environment...
...officials also blame some unexpected consequences of the 1986 federal tax-reform law. Late in 1986 taxpayers rushed to sell securities and property before capital-gains taxes jumped from 20% to a current maximum of 33%. Some state planners rosily assumed this high revenue would continue. Cigarette smokers will pay for the miscalculation...
Kemp would like to see similar programs at other projects. The catch is that he wants to finance them largely with HUD funds that have been set aside for modernizing the complexes. To pay for the drug war, local housing authorities would have to sacrifice the installation of storm windows, new heating systems and other badly needed improvements. Robert McKay, executive director of the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, complains of being faced with an "impossible choice between fixing up dwellings or fighting drugs -- and you have to do both." Moreover, housing officials are going to have less...