Word: revisionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The 368-page bill is the first comprehensive revision of the U.S. tax code since the income tax was adopted in 1913. Despite its sweeping nature, however, there was little disagreement over its passage. Blaming a "misunderstanding," Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills defused potential liberal opposition to the...
So strong is the sentiment for tax revision that the House would not consider the extension bill until President Nixon promised to send up a reform program later this year. Even with Nixon's pledge, the margin was an almost invisible five votes. The Democratic leadership in the Senate...
Playing the Snake. Liberal Democrats argued that unless they tied the surtax, which Nixon wants badly, to reform, which he does not want quite so badly, reform would remain what it has been for years: something to be done tomorrow. Though the Administration did, in fact, attach a few reforms...
He is now lecturing at the University of Basel. The vacancies have been filled by Soviet-lining conservatives, including Vasil Bilák and Alois Indra, who won infamy last August as two members of the lone trio of Czechoslovaks who initially cooperated with the Russian invaders. The purges continue...
Outmaneuvered Opposition. The committee's approval caught the surtax's opponents by surprise. Some conservatives who oppose high taxation and spending were disarmed by the bill's bipartisan support and by the nation's growing concern about inflation. Liberals, who proposed to support the bill only...