Word: revolting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stations have bumped their usual programs to run the Jarvis special. The Jarvis Bunch is spending $500,000 for the show, including $100,000 for promotion. If it is a hit, it may become a series. Consider the impact if that earlier tax revolt, the Boston Tea Party, could have been televised...
...many ways it has been as startling a development as the Great Tax Revolt of 1978 itself. Echoing the worries of citizens-and not just those in the tax-pressed middle class-public officials from statehouse to White House are proclaiming that the choking grip of taxation must be loosened to let the underproductive, inflation-riddled U.S. economy breathe more freely and create more profits, capital and jobs. That sentiment was fully reflected at the Time Inc. conference. Sounding what might well have been the keynote of the proceedings, liberal Democrat Ullman declared that in its approach to taxation...
...outcry against spending has been particularly loud at state and local levels, where the tax revolt also is fiercest. Iowa's Republican Governor Robert Ray complained about all the mandated federal programs that force states and localities to spend money that they do not have themselves. "We hire people whether we need them or not because that is the only way we can get our share of the [federal] money. We don't really like that." Governors, said Ray, would prefer to receive revenue-sharing funds that they may use as they see fit, to reduce taxes...
...rebellion is clearly not confined to California, says Yankelovich. People elsewhere feel at least as strongly about taxes. But, he adds, the revolt is not an unqualified conservative backlash or a mindless desire to dismantle government. It is also not a code word for racial prejudice. Nor is it a soak-the-rich movement. Quite the contrary, Yankelovich has found that most poorer Americans still believe that they have a chance to achieve wealth and they do not want the opportunity removed. Nor do they feel excessively jealous of those who have already made it, since they believe luck...
...room around us rattled with the sounds of 100 typewriters, red telephones and wire services, all creating tax revolt stories. Dukakis was leading a horde of press affiliates through the press room with him. Beer continued, "It's very hard for anyone, even a sharp guy like Dukakis, to get a handle on the bureaucracy. Party decomposition--you're not talking to this party and that group, you're meeting people en masse...