Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Across the U.S., politicians scramble to join the tax revolt...
...more extreme fear among blacks was expressed in an Atlanta speech by the Rev. Jesse Jackson. "The tax rebellion is now being used as the new code word-like busing and Bakke-for racism and classism," he told a national P.T.A. convention. The revolt, he claimed later, may prove to be "the greatest threat the black middle class has ever known...
...taxpayer revolt has, in fact, taken a variety of forms. Other examples...
...former aide to Ronald Reagan, Bell, 34, proposes a 30% reduction in income tax rates. Case has called the tax plan "simplistic" and a "panacea," but Bell insists that he was helped considerably in his upset victory by the tax revolt that is sweeping across the U.S. He was undoubtedly also helped by finances: he outspent Case...
...they have new status, or, rather, they can have it if they are wise. Part of the tax revolt, the outcry against Big Government and all the rest, is a new national appreciation of the economic system and the people who make it go. If they are not folk heroes yet, they can at least go to the Senate chamber, as they did last week, with pride...