Word: repeals
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...council. Three years later he was elected to the Senate on Dwight Eisenhower's coattails. But he never would be, as he put it, a "me-too Republican." Goldwater summed up his views in The Conscience of a Conservative (1960): "My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution...
Unfortunately, while taxes in Massachussetts are below the national average, 67 percent of voters support Question 3, which would repeal a seven-and-a-half percent surtax on income and limit the growth of state revenues. That would threaten existing programs, not to mention an expensive clean-up effort. Vote yes on 4 and no on 3. It's time to face the problem and the cost...
...Legistature Tax Cap Bill will immediatelly repeal the 7.5 percent income surtax at a cost of $135 million, restore the $2,200 personal exemption, reduce taxes for lower-income families and small businesses, and impose a cap on future taxes...
Gallagher, like many liberals, does not support either, because he believes the bill's plan to repeal the surtax and forbid its reimposition will starve Massachusetts social services and education of funding...
Ever since multinational corporations began crowding into California in the 1970s, they have been lobbying local legislators to repeal the state's onerous "unitary tax" law. Under its provisions, these companies had to pay taxes on their global profits, rather than only on income made in California. The California legislature has now passed a bill allowing firms to pay a tax equivalent to just .03% of their statewide assets, payroll and sales. The new system is expected to cut the California taxes of some foreign companies by 75% or more...