Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these days there will be a true tax revolt, and it is going to come from suburbia...
Both said modern scholars' access to data has destroyed the previous generation's interpretation of the American Revolution as a revolt of the oppressed against a Tory elite...
Tony Coelho, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, suggests a more general use that Democrats may make of the study. Giving his party's reply to one of Reagan's Saturday radio talks, Coelho spoke of a "populist revolt brewing" in the heartland. He added, "Nobody in the Administration pays attention as they fly over central America on their way from one coast to the other." That line hardly seems likely to go over in coastal states, but it could stir angry echoes inland...
...rose less than prices. That fanned public perception that the whole system had gone haywire. In 1972 a poll by the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations found that the public rated the federal income tax the fairest of all taxes. By 1980 respondents rated it the least fair. A revolt of sorts started. By Treasury figures, tax evasion more than doubled, from $42.6 billion in 1976 to $90.5 billion...
...Lanka, an island off India's southern tip, has been torn by a separatist revolt, and thousands of citizens have sought refuge abroad...