Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hugh Sidey's article on American taxation [April 17] omits one major cause for potential tax revolt. Nobody objects to taxation per se. What we are increasingly angry about is the idiotic ways our hard-earned money is spent...
Such actions infuriate Defense Secretary Brown and the Carter Administration's other civilian defense officials, who will have to make repeated trips up Capitol Hill to defend their budget proposals. The continuing debate about the Navy is sure to become increasingly open, perhaps even reminiscent of the revolt of the admirals. Ultimately, therefore, it may be the public that will determine the Navy's role and the fate of the surface fleet...
...essays are comic turns; Rosten does equally well at carrying weighty subjects lightly. His ideas are unstartling, and in fact they would seem ordinary, if clarity and common sense were ordinary. "I wonder how those faculty members who aided campus revolt will come to terms with themselves in a calmer future," he muses, writing about student takeovers of universities in the '60s. "Did they not give away rights they would have refused to surrender to, say, an investigating committee of Congress, or a reactionary board of trustees, or a witch-hunting press? Did they...
...President instructed his staff last week to drum up support for his tax-reform bill. But since the program entails higher taxes for many, it has a small constituency indeed. And there is already a revolt brewing over the explosive increase in Social Security taxes that was passed by Congress last December. It almost seems as if Carter is oblivious to the is sue. Congress, keenly feeling the wrath of its constituents, is not. Disregarding the President, the House Ways and Means Committee began voting down Carter's tax-reform proposals last week. "The trouble with Carter," said Barber...
...first is high taxes. "The taxpayers are in revolt. You see that in the Jarvis Initiative in California, which would drastically cut property taxes. You see it in people leaving New York State by the thousands and fleeing Massachusetts for New Hampshire. The attraction of the Sunbelt is not just the sunshine but that there is no income tax in Texas. Just about anywhere in the country, if local authorities try to raise taxes, citizens come over the wall in protest...