Word: rates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very worried about the future under Proposition 2-1/2," said Vice Mayor Alice K. Wolf said, of a state regulation limiting the rate at which local governments increase residential taxes to 2-1/2 percent per year...
...economist uses his techniques to predict the rate at which new AIDS cases will be reported, and his projections seem to be on target. Says a Government scientist: "Every month Hay's numbers look better and better, while the official estimates look worse...
RAISING THE TOP BRACKET. Right now the top marginal tax rate rises to 33% for people earning roughly $50,000 to $200,000, then falls back down to 28%. It's hard to argue that this is fair, though I've loved every minute of it. If the top marginal rate stuck at 33% -- for the rich and not just the upper middle class -- it would raise billions that could be used to lower other taxes...
...even there, restoring a two-tiered system -- with one income-tax rate for "ordinary" income and a lower one for capital gains -- would do little more than restore the incentive to concoct schemes to convert the former to the latter. We don't need more tax lawyers and tax-driven strategies to compete in the world marketplace; we need a simple tax system that doesn't distort economic decisions...
...Texas, where such tests have been mandatory since 1985, average scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test have remained flat and the dropout rate high. Critics maintain that real learning has been stifled. "Teachers are teaching to the test," says John Moore, chairman of the education department at San Antonio's Trinity University. Some South Carolinians, on the other hand, feel that their three-hour high school exit exam in reading, writing and math -- which for the first time will be required for a diploma this academic year -- has already had a salutary effect. "Students are taking it seriously and studying...