Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the U.S. Senate gave initial approval last week to a $1 trillion budget that includes an $18.3 billion tax increase, it did not specify precisely how those new levies might be raised. One ploy Congress is almost certain to consider, though, is a steeper "sin tax" on such items as alcohol and tobacco. A congressional study has estimated that raising the federal excise tax on each bottle of wine and six-pack of beer by around 50 cents could swell coffers by more than $4 billion, while a 16 cents increase on each pack of cigarettes could bring...
Whether the legislators go after sin or something else, the proposed budget faces rough slogging at the White House. Says Administration Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater: "We do not agree that ((new)) taxes are necessary. Period...
...reporters asked blunt questions about whether he had ever committed adultery. At one point Hart responded, "I don't have to answer that." Afterward, in the car heading toward a political dinner, Hart mused that maybe he should have said, "Adultery is not a crime. It's a sin. And that is between me and Lee, and me and God." Lee Hart added supportively, "That's exactly what I would have said...
...thing while being another just does not wash. Like claiming not to be a womanizer and then getting caught in what resembled a tryst. Like declaring that America does not bargain with terrorists and then secretly seeking deals with them. In a democracy, hypocrisy is a mortal political sin...
...adulterers are not the same, whatever Dante's lurid punishments by the appropriate circle of hell. A sinner is not only his sin, but many other things. Strength and weakness coexist. People struggle on through complex weather...