Word: revolting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this slender tale, which pointedly recalls Theodore Dreiser's novels of the period, Malick constructs a complex web of moral ambiguities. He invites us to sympathize with the criminal Bill and Abby, who have a right to revolt against poverty. But he also arouses our affection for the privileged farmer, a kind and sickly man whose riches pay off only in loneliness and boredom. To Malick, all these people are victims of their innocent faith in a warped American dream. Their tragedy is that they blame themselves, rather than their false ideals, for the misery of their lives. Though...
...employees, even if that includes reducing their numbers by attrition. He is actively pushing laws to give most government workers a choice of submitting disputes to arbitration, rather than striking, and to make arbitration compulsory for cops, firemen and other public-safety workers. Instead of simply decrying the tax revolt, as Meany does, Wurf calls for reforms: cuts in property taxes for low-and middle-income homeowners, higher and more progressive state and local income taxes to reduce the revenue loss...
...somewhere in politics is to find a crowd that's going some place and get in front of it." Conservative G.O.P. Strategist Lyn Nofziger grudgingly praises Democrats like California Governor Jerry Brown, who first opposed, then capitalized on his state's property tax revolt. Says Nofziger: "The Democrats are very fast to get in front on such an issue...
...revolt is just what the doctor ordered for a chronic case of national fiscal obesity. We've finally realized that the way to control the Government monster is to cut back on its diet of our money...
Voices and egos are reduced in such a setting. Thoughts are proffered with some reluctance. Yet the talk in this small place shows that the tax revolt is firmly rooted. Here is a clear vestige of the California-contrived Laffer Curve (the correlation between rising taxes and falling incentive). The ideas of Harvard's Samuel Beer are on many people's minds-not under Beer's label but as an outcropping of a deep vein of common sense. Beer believes that the Government is now so big and so oriented toward self-preservation that...